Crime History – 82-year-old serial killer dies

Published December 28, 2009 5:00am ET



On this day, Dec. 28, in 2003, Faye Copeland, who with her husband were considered the oldest serial killers ever sentenced to death, died of natural causes.

In October 1989, Missouri police received a tip that a human skull and bones could be found on farmland owned by an elderly couple, Ray and Faye Copeland. Ray was 75 and Faye was 69. Police found five bodies buried in shallow graves around the farm. They also found a handmade quilt Faye Copeland made out of a dead victim’s clothing.

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