The Oldest Couple on Death Row: Ray and Faye Copeland

The Oldest Couple on Death Row: Ray and Faye Copeland

While most people could never imagine their sweet grandparents becoming serial killers, that wasn’t the case for the Copeland family. In 1989, an anonymous tip uncovered the crimes committed by elderly couple Ray and Faye Copeland on their rural farm in Mooresville, Missouri. They quickly became the oldest couple sentenced to death.

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Ray and Faye’s lust for killing came in their retirement years. The couple, both in their 70s, went from being loving grandparents to serial killers who used their victims’ clothing to make winter quilts. Why they went down such a morbid path is perplexing, but you’ll have to keep reading to find out what happened.

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