Overview

• Murray admitted to poisoning her husband Joshua with antifreeze and using an accelerant to start a fatal fire in their Iberia home in December 2018.
• Investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Miller County Sheriff’s Department uncovered forensic evidence that led to her arrest in February 2019.
• Recorded prison calls with inmate Eugene Claypool revealed Murray’s plan to be free of her husband and marry his cellmate once he was “out of the picture.”
• On June 25, Murray entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder, second-degree arson and tampering with evidence in exchange for dropping armed criminal action charges.
• A judge imposed a 12-year term for murder along with concurrent seven-year and four-year sentences for arson and tampering, and Murray is awaiting assignment to the Missouri Department of Corrections.