Corrupted Justice: A Killer Husband

In 1992, Ruth Ann had finally found the strength to demand a divorce, but she conceded to her husband's opposition and agreed to a property settlement, formalized in a document which he wrote and they both signed.

After a close loss in her 1994 US Senate bid due to her opponent's last minute sleazy lies, Barry was furious and blamed Ruth Ann for the loss. By 1997, going well beyond his lawyer's instructions to "taunt your wife into submission," his intensified drug pushing, combined with physical, emotional, and mental abuse, shattered her. After threatening to kill her, encouraging her to commit suicide, and taunting her with his mistress in a very public affair, his abuse became too much for her, she crumbled and experienced a psychotic break.

Now, in the midst of a hot affair, he didn't want to fulfill their settlement agreement. So he devised a campaign to kill her. She was to be sacrificed to his vengeful, greedy, abusive, egotistical and evil designs.