We’re back with part two of our theme on female killer nurses with Jeanine Hannah, a.k.a. Jeannie Miata and Julie Kocian. With her many names, Jeanine managed to continue caring for elderly patients in spite of a restriction and a prior conviction of theft in the first degree. However, stealing from patients was far from her worst crime. After she absconded from Oregon, Jeanine faced charges of theft once more in Texas. This time, while she was awaiting a court appearance, Jeanine was arrested and indicted in October 2004 for murdering the patient she had stolen from, Margaret Bradley, two and a half years earlier.

Sources:

“Jeanine Hannah.” Murder By Medic, season 2, episode 10, 5 Dec. 2024. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhB8UTGI7k.

“Jeannie Miata.” Nurses Who Kill, season 2, episode 5, 12 Mar. 2019. Amazon Prime, https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Nurses-Who-Kill/0R6XHP24NC0847I8V8KK3W8R3P.

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https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/hb.html

https://www.ncsl.org/human-services/common-law-marriage-by-state

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/treatment/index.html

In the early evening of July 29, 2008, officers with the Mobile County Police Department entered traveling preacher Anthony Hopkins’ home on Rylands Street through the unlocked back door. The house was quiet and exceptionally tidy. Officers made their way through the home until they stopped in front of a door leading to the utility room. They opened the door and were met with the unmistakable smell of decomposition. Officers went to the chest freezer, opened it, and found a large block of ice with a hand protruding from the mass. Was this the body of Anthony’s wife, Arletha, whom her family hadn’t heard from since 2004? This discovery would lead the police to uncover even more crimes committed by a man hiding behind the facade of arighteous pastor.

Sources:

https://www.wsfa.com/story/8802518/inside-a-murder-suspects-home/

https://www.foxnews.com/story/preacher-arrested-in-church-after-wifes-body-found-in-freezer

https://www.al.com/topic/Anthony%20Hopkins/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/story/no-bond-for-preacher-in-body-in-freezer-case

https://www.clarkecountydemocrat.com/articles/preacher-sentenced-another-pleads-guilty/

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https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2010/04/08/children-testify-about-moms-death/27945704007/

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A distraught Tracy Burleson called 911 a little before 11 p.m. on May 18, 2010, crying and repeating, “Someone shot my wife.” Tracy had just returned from a quick trip to the convenience store and found his wife in the driveway of their home with a gunshot wound to the back of her head. Who would shoot Paulette Burleson, the 56-year-old wife of the pastor of one of the oldest churches in Houston? As the smoke cleared,investigators realized that things were not as they seemed, and not one, but three people whose lives were intimately entwined would be arrested for capital murder.

Sources:

https://www.thetrentonline.com/pastor-pays-son-murder-wife-watch/

https://theboxhouston.com/1110081/5th-ward-pastor-charged-with-murdering-wife-after-church-fire/

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