Barbara Opel enmeshed herself in her children’s lives to an extremely unhealthy degree. Her 13-year-old daughter, Heather Opel, had been encouraged to date from a young age.
Each year, when valentine’s day rolled around, Barbara hosted a party and supplied the guests with alcohol. Barbara and Heather’s father had long divorced and she kept him from the children.
They also had another 11-year-old son together while Barbara year-old daughter from another relationship.
Barbara and her children were taken under the wing of terminal cancer patient, 64-year-old Jerry Heiman.
Jerry had hired Barbara to care for his 89-year-old mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Jerry converted the basement in the home for Barbara and her children to live in while providing care for his mother.
However, shortly after Barbara and her children moved in, she started to plan something extremely sinister. Jerry had recently come in to $40,000 from the sale of a house and Barbara decided that she wanted that money and in order to obtain that money, Barbara decided that she needed Jerry to be dead.
Barbara didn’t want to murder Jerry herself so she turned to Heather’s boyfriend, 17-year-old Jeffrey Grote. At first, Jeffrey refused to kill Jerry but when Barbara promised to buy him a car and pay a group of his friends to help, he changed his mind.
Barbara enlisted Jeffrey, Heather, 14-year-old Kyle Boston, Kyle’s 13-year-old cousin, and 14-year-old Marriam Oliver to carry out the murder.
On the 13th of April, 2001, the group of teenagers hid in Jerry’s house and waited for him to come home. As soon as he entered the home, the teenagers set upon him...
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