A North Carolina woman presented as a devout pastor's wife hid a decades-long pattern of poisoning family members, lovers, and acquaintances with arsenic. Blanche Taylor Moore methodically eliminated obstacles to her control and financial gain while maintaining a public facade of piety, ultimately becoming the oldest woman on death row in the United States. Blanche Taylor Moore poisoned her first husband James with arsenic in 1973, disguising his fatal symptoms as a heart attack despite his exhibiting classic arsenic poisoning signs including blistering, hair loss, facial swelling, and internal bleeding.