This is the documented grave of a convicted criminal. Information below comes from public records.
Rhonda Belle Martin
1906 โ May 11, 1957Convicted 1956
Buried at:
Montgomery Memorial Cemetery , Montgomery, Alabama ยท Unmarked grave (at the feet of victim / first husband per her request)
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the poisoning of her fourth husband (and linked to five other family deaths). She was the last woman executed in Alabama until 2024 (over 60 years later). Executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison on May 11, 1957.
Background
Rhonda Belle Martin was an American serial killer who poisoned her mother, two husbands, and three of her children with arsenic in Montgomery, Alabama, between 1937 and 1951.
Contemporary Montgomery Advertiser and national news coverage of the 1956-1957 trial and execution
Alabama Department of Corrections historical records
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