Finally, the family had a break when Thomas was employed by a mill and got a lift to work.
She pleaded guilty a month later and was given a fine and a suspended sentence. National media coverage showed the two faces of this unlikely Death Row inmate, sparking furious debates on capital punishment. Lillie nagged and badgered Velma constantly, ordered her about and expected to be waited on in her old age. Velma was out too. She did well on direct examination, saying that she had given her boyfriend poison to make him sick but not to kill him. Early in her prison stay, Velma went through drug withdrawal. There were two lines into Velma but three executioners. .” Her voice slurred into silence and she started to snore. It wasn’t long before Velma was in trouble with the police once again. In December 1951, Velma gave birth to a son, Ronald Thomas. She had lost a lot of weight, and one day, Ronald came home to find his mother lying on the floor in a dead faint. There was little time for an investigation. Thomas was working as a delivery driver for Pepsi-Cola. It was his ‘dead’ picture. They held signs saying, “Velma’s going to have a hell of a time” and “Bye-Bye Velma” and chanted, “Die, bitch, die!”.

Tragedy was about to hit the family again. The surgery was successful physically but mentally and emotionally Velma changed. Nicklinn 15:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC) External links modified. In the meantime, Dr. Andrews was looking at his autopsy findings and found them puzzling.

Doctors put his illness down to a virus. He was also worried at the number of drugs she was taking, far more than doctors had prescribed. He had fought for his interpretation of free speech when he was a student at the University of North Carolina by opposing the ban on communist speakers at state campuses. He had no jurisdiction over that area. The plump, rosy-cheeked grandmother was friendly enough, even a little shy as they spoke to her in the interrogation room. The arms and legs of the sweaty, chalk-faced man thrashed around making incoherent moaning noises. One of them was smoking. The monitor connected to her heart showed a flat line. "Cold Killer or Loving Grandma?" When Velma Barfield arrived at her son’s modest duplex on the outskirts of Lumberton, North Carolina, Ronnie Burke gave her the comfort she was seeking. Instead, they said Velma was a liar and a manipulator whose claims of incest and sexual abuse was an easy way to gain sympathy from those who were willing to listen.

Less than a year after their marriage, Jennings died on March 22, 1971 from heart complications. Mamas should love their children and stand up for them, and Mama never stood up for me, or for any of us.”. The punishment seemed to have worked as Velma did not steal during her youth again.

I had prescriptions from at least two, and usually three, doctors at a time. In the waiting room were Stuart’s children, Alice and Billy, and the concerned girlfriend who had nursed him through the illness, Velma Barfield. Being unemployed added to her depression and when she discovered her father had lung cancer, things couldn’t get any worse. The problem wasn’t that she was short of cash and couldn’t meet the repayments. She lived rent-free with the senior citizen in exchange for doing household chores. Slowly, the story spilled out.

In the summer of 1974 Lillie had a bad attack of something. The young, poor Burke family was admired by friends and family for their good parenting skills. It was not terribly surprising when an autopsy found arsenic in Taylor's body. Taylor let Velma move into his home.

She was sentenced for six months, but was lucky enough to be out after three. By that time, Velma was no longer there to care for her.
It was a male called Stuart Taylor. Velma attracted another suitor, but the romance hadn't gone too far when he died, hit by a truck as he crossed a road. Velma was no longer the daughter she could boss about and insist she do housework and other chores. Depressed, Velma, as she was known, got a prescription for Valium, which led to a life-long addiction to mood-altering drugs. She had been supplied with many of her accustomed medications during her trial. Velma got up on that gurney, and lay flat down on it. As a result of this arrest, he lost his driving license for a while, and without it, his job as a delivery driver for the Pepsi-Cola company. Burke left work immediately, telling his supervisor he had an emergency, and drove directly to the Lumberton Police Department to speak to Wilbur Lovett.

If he came home with a whiff of alcohol on his breath Velma would initiate the argument which scaled up into a slanging match.

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