

However, the symptoms only worsened, with Carol's enduring numbness in her extremities. A year after filing the insurance policy on her daughter, Marie gave her an injection that she claimed would alleviate the nausea. Within a few months, Carol began experiencing nausea and was admitted to the emergency room several times. Three years later, Marie took out a $25,000 life insurance policy on her daughter Carol a $25,000 accidental death rider took effect in August 1978. Frank had maintained a moderate life insurance policy, secretly taken out by Marie at the time of his initial illness, that she redeemed for $31,140. Because the symptoms closely resembled those of hepatitis, that was listed as his cause of death and no further tests were conducted. Frank Hilley died early in the morning of May 25, 1975.įrank's autopsy, performed with his wife's permission, revealed swelling of the kidneys and lungs, bilateral pneumonia, and inflammation of the stomach. The condition persisted and he was admitted to a hospital, where tests indicated a malfunction of the liver doctors diagnosed infectious hepatitis. In May 1975, shortly after a visit from Mike, Frank visited his doctor complaining of nausea and tenderness in his abdomen, being diagnosed with a viral stomachache. He turned to Mike, then an ordained minister living in Atlanta, for advice. In 1975, after returning home early due to his illness, Frank found Marie in bed with her boss. He began suffering from a mysterious illness, as did his son Mike, but Mike's symptoms–which his doctors attributed to stomach flu–abruptly stopped when he moved away to attend a seminary.

Unbeknownst to Frank, his wife frequently engaged in sex with her bosses in exchange for money or superior performance evaluations.

Despite Frank's well-paying job and Marie's secretarial employment, the couple had little money set aside in savings due to Marie's excessive spending habits, leading to tension in the marriage. Her parents were Huey Frazier and his wife, Lucille ( née Meads) She married Frank Hilley on they had two children, Mike and Carol. Her life and crime spree are the subjects of the 1991 telefilm Wife, Mother, Murderer.Īudrey Hilley was born Audrey Frazier in the Blue Mountain neighborhood of Anniston, Alabama, on June 4, 1933. She was suspected in the death by poisoning of her husband and the attempted murder of her daughter, and spent three years as a fugitive from justice.
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Audrey Marie Hilley ( née Frazier, later Homan J– February 26, 1987), also known by the aliases Robbi Hannon and Teri Martin, was an American murderer and suspected serial killer.
