Pam Nalley, Roy McCaleb’s daughter, had long suspected a particular motive for Carolyn Krizan-Wilson’s actions. According to a 2008 report by The Houston Chronicle, Krizan-Wilson had previously taken out two separate life insurance policies in her husband’s name just before he was killed. The sum of both equated to a staggering $198,000. However, her efforts to collect the money after the fact turned out to be in vain when the insurance companies refused to pay up the full amount after McCaleb’s children contested her claim, and after prosecutors let the insurance company know she was a suspect in McCaleb’s homicide. The circumstances surrounding McCaleb’s death apparently seemed too suspicious and inconsistent to them.
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There was also Krizan-Wilson’s criminal history prior to and during her relationship with McCaleb. At one point, Krizan-Wilson, who had been previously married a total of seven times (as of 2013), was charged with bigamy when police discovered that she’d married McCaleb before her previous divorce was finalized, per ABC News. (Though ABC News and other outlets previously reported she was convicted of this charge, others, like The Houston Chronicle, say these charges were eventually dropped.)
Ultimately, it seems the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence in the case led Krizan-Wilson to plead guilty to the murder of her last husband. But perhaps no one expected what the judge at her sentencing would adjudicate next.
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