Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. During her mother's trial, Ashley reads an emotional statement to the judge. Stacey Castor claimed it was a suicide, but detectives soon suspected murder -- and she then tried to poison her own daughter, Ashley, with antifreeze and frame her with a suicide note confessing . Even though I do hate her, I still love her at the same time. (Ashley was just 12 at the time of her fathers death. ' The authorities believed that Stacey tried to kill her daughter and shift the blame onto her. Fortunately, Stacey's daughter Ashley Wallace survived the homicide attempt and lived to testify against the mother who betrayed her. Those who knew him, including his ex-wife Janice Poissant Farmer, rejected the idea Castor killed himself. Who was Stacey Castor and what was her cause of death? 20/20: Fatal Flaw - On The Rocks chronicles David Castor's death and the chain of events that resulted in Stacey's incarceration. Along with being suspected of killing her first husband, Castor was found guilty of poisoning her second husband with antifreeze and attempting to murder her daughter, Ashley Wallace. Spinelli stays on the case. Stacey Castor's daughter Ashley Wallace takes the stand, Jan.14, 2009,in this photo from pool video, as the prosecution's first witness to tearfully testify about the deaths of her father and stepfather. After detectives visited Ashley at college to tell her they suspected her father was also poisoned, she came home to visit and share a drink with her mom. Hear Stacey Castor's frantic 911 call to police about daughter who overdosed. She said he was larger than life., Mike was the life of the party if you needed something that Mike had, he would give it to you.. All rights reserved (About Us). She was the executor of his estate. They also had opposite shifts since she worked during the day as an ambulance dispatcher, and he worked during the evening as a mechanic. [3][5], In 2003, Stacey married David Castor, whose surname she used from that point forward. Each had children from a previous marriage. [3] She maintained her innocence of the two murders and the writing of the note. In a fiery cross examination, Fitzpatrick confronted Castor with phone calls investigators had from wiretapping her phone, as well as computer evidence that showed she had not only written Ashleys suicide letter, but had two drafts. Police wiretaps recorded Castor asking her daughter questions about her conversations with the detectives. She said that "Ashley brought this on" and insists that she and Ashley know what really happened. "What gave her the right to play God with people? A letter she had written before her death incriminated him as the murderer if she were to die eventually; the letter led to his prosecution. Clockwise from left: Chauncey Eaton, David Castor, Stacey Castor, Judie Eaton, Bree Wallace, Ashley . She was 48. [2] [3] Spinellis line of questioning led to a noticeably-suspicious response from Stacey Castor. As his inexplicable sickness persisted over the holiday season, his family encouraged him to seek medical care, but he died in early 2000 before he could do so. It would seem like a perfectly obvious thing to autopsy a grown man who's healthy, who lays down on his couch and dies, Michael Benson, who authored Mommy Deadliest about Castors case. In 2005, he was found dead in his bedroom. Castor then suggested they have a drink together because they've "had a hard day.". "She was my best friend and she took that all away, just because she got scared. Both Ashley Wallace and Stacey Castor took the stand. Along with being suspected of killing her first husband, Castor was found guilty of. Stacey Castor murder trial: Daughter Ashley Wallace reads statement Watch on Standing next to her younger sister, Bree, Wallace opens up about feelings of confusion, anger, and bewilderment that had plagued her since learning of her mother's ultimate betrayal. When the authorities questioned Ashley about the forged suicide note and the deaths of her father and stepfather, she maintained her innocence. [2][3], Castor was employed by an ambulance dispatch company, while Wallace worked nights as a mechanic, but the family had little money. [3] Detectives reasoned that if Castor were truly genuine about her love for her late husbands, then she would eventually visit their graves. Police eventually decided to exhume Wallaces body, which is when they learned that he, too, had been killed through antifreeze poisoning. How can you hate someone and love them at the same time? Stacey Castor had already hired defense attorney Chuck Keller, who would follow the line of defense that Ashley was responsible for David Castors death and that Ashley also attempted to kill herself. She currently lives in Syracuse, New York, and is engaged to Nick Galoni. The following day, Stacey made her another drink. Bree Wallace found a 750-word typewritten letter that appeared to be written by Ashley, with her typed signature - confessing to the murders of her father and stepfather, and saying she was now taking her own life. "She's fine. Until her death of a heart attack in 2016 in prison, Castor continued to attest her innocence. [19] Castor, who professed to being shocked at the guilty verdict, maintained her innocence during the on-air 20/20 special,[3] as well as in unaired parts of the program. Bree said one of the officers who responded to the call to help her sister was starting to let her read the note when her mother asked the officer to take it away. She had murdered her husbands partly to collect on their life insurance and estates,[16] and had changed David's will to exclude his son by a previous marriage from the money left to him by David. Castor told Diane Leshinski, then-detective with the Onondaga Sheriffs Office, that she assumed he was sleeping it off. [3] They wanted to observe her behavior while there. The movie's speech is pulled verbatim from the statement the real Wallace read, through tears, in the courtroom in 2009. In 2009, her mother was found guilty of intentionally poisoning her then-husband David Castor with antifreeze and later trying to kill her too. [2] [3] The couple married and had their first daughter, Ashley, in 1988. 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Before dying in jail, Stacey Castor (pictured left) used antifreeze to carry out the poisoning deaths of both of her husbands, Stacey (pictured left) had two daughters with her first husband Michael. Wallace left the courtroom in 2009 knowing she would return to a family of people who adored her. [3] Seventeen hours later, Ashley was found comatose on her bed by her younger sister Bree Wallace. Stacey is at the center of a web of lies linked to the deaths of David and a previous husband, as well as the overdose of her daughter, Ashley Wallace, 21. 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Ashley felt tired after that and went to sleep in her bedroom. And then she took that all away, Wallace said. As Poisoned Love shows, Ashley and Bree Wallace were once very close to their mom. Under questioning by District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, she said she had not seen the note moments earlier. Sept. 12 2007: Ashley Wallace goes drinking with mom. [3][9] Given evidence of the evolution of David Castor's illness, they concluded that Castor had for four days fed her husband antifreeze through the baster before trying to make it look like a suicide. David had a grown son, David Jr., and she had daughters, Ashley and Bree. Ashley Wallace said she drank another cocktail her mom had prepared for her. I dont know what it is yet, but Im sure Ill find out. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Ultimately, her daughters, Ashley and Bree Wallace, struggled to understand why their mother did what she did. Stacey's daughter Ashley said that one night she had a cocktail made by her mother that tasted bad - the next day she woke up in a hospital where detectives told her of a suicide note she allegedly never wrote Credit: ABC 5 Officials took Stacey to court in a historic case after Ashley told police she never attempted suicide Credit: ABC ABC Ashley Wallace was attending her first day at college when two investigators arrived to deliver the news that her father had died of antifreeze poisoning. Soon after, however, investigators found Staceys DNA on a turkey baster that had Castors DNA on it, as well. And all of a sudden, he just sticks his arm up in the air and puts his arm on his side, and then his arm just fell down.. As horrible as it makes me feel, this is goodbye mom. But Ashley added that the support of her counselor and loved ones helped tremendously. In fact, he said they had talked about the issue about a month earlier and both agreed suicide was selfish and unfair to the loved ones left behind. In Touch Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. The suicide note said that she was guilty of killing both her father and Michael Wallace. So, to be arrested and handcuffed, I was terrified. While Ashley continued on her journey of healing, she talked about struggling with how the trauma affected her. "[9], If there is a ceiling in terms of evil, she (Castor) is at the ceiling. Castor, New York Department of Corrections inmate number 09G0209, was placed in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, New York. She testified David Castor had apparently locked himself in his bedroom at some point over the weekend, a fact corroborating Stacey Castor's story to police. I would have done anything for her, but she decided she wanted to kill me instead.. [4] They believed Castor had used the turkey baster to force-feed him once he became too physically weak. .css-ssumvd{display:block;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.25;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-ssumvd:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-ssumvd{letter-spacing:0rem;margin-top:0.9375rem;}}The "Friends" Women Reunite to Celebrate Courteney, The Reason Hoda Kotb Hasn't Been on the Today Show, Keke Palmer Is a New Mom! Here's what you need to know. He said he called after dark that night to ask Castor to look for something he had left in Ashley's bedroom the previous day. Prior to the 20/20 broadcast, the true crime events were previously chronicled in Lifetime's Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story. That bothers me, it is so confusing. 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