Overview

• On June 27, 2025, a judge sentenced Amy Murray to 12 years in prison for second-degree murder; her seven-year arson and four-year evidence tampering terms will run concurrently with the murder sentence.
• Under her June 25 Alford plea, Murray accepted convictions on second-degree murder, second-degree arson and evidence tampering without admitting guilt in exchange for prosecutors dropping an armed criminal action charge.
• Investigators determined Murray poisoned her husband, Joshua, with antifreeze before using an accelerant to set their Iberia home ablaze on December 11, 2018, to conceal the homicide.
• Recorded phone calls with inmate Eugene Claypool—whom Murray met while working as a nurse at Jefferson City Correctional Center—revealed plans to marry him after her husband’s death.
• Murray posted $750,000 bail after her February 2019 arrest and spent six years challenging the charges before entering the Alford plea.