On Oct 24, 1996, Lowell AMOS, a Detroit businessman whose mother and three wives died under suspicious circumstances, was convicted of murdering his third wife with a cocaine overdose. Lowell, a former General Motors plant manager from Anderson, Indiana, claimed his wife, Roberta Mowery Amos, 37, died from an accidental drug overdose during sex play in which he was inserting cocaine into her body. However, a coroner's autopsy revealed that her body contained 15 times the amount of cocaine needed to kill a person.
Prosecutors believe Lowell knew Roberta was about to leave him and he wanted to collect on her life insurance. Strangely, the unlucky widower's two previous wives and his mother had all died mysteriously between 1979 and 1989. A potential bluebeard, Lowell had already collected more than $1 million in inheritance and insurance from the deaths of his first two wives and his mother. He now faces an automatic life sentence without possibility of parole for the slaying of his third betrothed, Roberta.