SACRAMENTO — A girl who prosecutors dubbed a “black widow” as a result of she had her husband killed, died of pure causes whereas serving a life sentence, authorities stated Friday.
Susan Russo, who was convicted of first-degree homicide and conspiracy within the 1994 slaying of 43-year-old David Russo, died Thursday, the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation stated.
Russo, 67, was serving her sentence on the Central California Girls’s Facility jail in Madera County. She had been receiving medical remedy at a neighborhood medical facility since Aug. 16, the division stated. It didn’t say what Russo was being handled for.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace will decide her reason for loss of life, it stated.
Russo organized to pay her boyfriend $100 to kill her husband, who was a U.S. Navy chief petty officer serving at Lemoore Naval Air Station south of Fresno, so she might gather advantages as his surviving partner, together with an almost $1 million insurance coverage coverage, authorities stated.
She let the boyfriend and an confederate into her residence, the place they shot her husband and disposed of his physique, they stated.
In 2017, then Gov. Jerry Brown commuted her sentence, saying there was proof that Russo was ceaselessly bodily abused by her husband, and she or he stated she was closely utilizing methamphetamine, together with together with her husband.
The next 12 months a parole board advisable that she be freed however Brown blocked her launch after deciding she was nonetheless a public security threat.