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Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, were convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew AP Photo/The Oklahoman, David McDaniel The only woman on death row in Oklahoma could get ...
The killing of Robert Andrew in Oklahoma City in 2001 resulted in a high-profile investigation and trial. Robert Andrew, or Rob as he was known, was shot twice in the garage with a shotgun.
She was convicted in the 2001 murder, along with her lover and fellow Sunday school teacher, James Pavatt. Pavatt, who had sold Rob Andrew an $800,000 life insurance policy, had confessed to ...
James Pavatt, Andrew's lover, also is on death row after he was convicted of killing Andrew with a shotgun in the family garage in Oklahoma City. In an unsigned opinion, the justices ordered the ...
Over the years, their marriage became increasingly strained. James Pavatt, an insurance agent, attended the same church as the Andrews. Pavatt and Brenda Andrew, who started teaching Sunday school ...
The thong, prosecutors say, was recovered from her luggage. Andrew’s co-defendant, James Pavatt, confessed to Robert Andrew’s murder. He is also on death row. But despite the confession ...
Prosecutors alleged that Andrew and her lover, James Pavatt, lured Rob Andrew into the garage and fatally shot him with a shotgun, intending to claim his life insurance proceeds. Pavatt also ...
Oklahoma prosecutors sought to prove she conspired with her then-partner, James Pavatt, to reap insurance proceeds from her husband’s death. To do so, they elicited racy testimony including ...
Her alleged accomplice in the crime, 71-year-old James Pavatt, is also facing execution. On Nov. 20, 2001, Rob Andrew came to the family home to pick up his son and daughter for Thanksgiving.
Her convicted co-conspirator and paramour, life insurance agent James Pavatt, was also sentenced to death. Her lawyers had told the Supreme Court that the evidence presented in the case "was not ...
Brenda was convicted of murder in 2004, as was her boyfriend, James Pavatt, whom she had begun seeing after her estrangement from Rob. But on Tuesday, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling ...