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'Widow of Her Own Making' Sentenced in 5th Husband's Insulin Overdose Murder | Crime Alert 6AM 10.10.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: A Texas woman was convicted this week of killing her
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  Speaker 1: diabetic husband in twenty twenty three through neglect as he
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  Speaker 1: suffered from an insulin overdose. A jury found Sarah Jean Hartsfield, fifty,
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  Speaker 1: guilty of murder on Wednesday. Hartsfield was arrested after staff
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  Speaker 1: at Houston Methodist Hospital noted suspicious circumstances surrounding Joseph's death
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  Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty three. Prosecutors presented evidence showing that
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's blood sugar dropped in dangerously low levels over several
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  Speaker 1: hours on January seventh. Sarah Hartsfield claimed she was sleeping
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  Speaker 1: while this happened, but her cell phone activity showed her
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  Speaker 1: on several apps during that time, and step tracking software
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  Speaker 1: showed her up and moving around. Additionally, Joseph's glucose monitor
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  Speaker 1: went off more than one hundred times, each time alerting
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  Speaker 1: Hartsfield's cell phone. Prosecutors acknowledged that they could not prove
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Jean Hartsfield had given her husband an overdose of
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  Speaker 1: insulin herself, but witnesses testified they believed that that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: The jury took less than an hour to convict. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Hartsfield was Sarah Jean Hartsfield's fifth husband. She previously shot
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  Speaker 1: a fiancee to death in Minnesota. She claimed self defense
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  Speaker 1: and was never charged for David Bragg's death. Hartsfield was
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  Speaker 1: also accused of pressuring an earlier husband to kill the
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  Speaker 1: new wife of an ex husband in twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona, and made a custody dispute over their children.
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  Speaker 1: Hartsfield has a history of allegations that she abused and
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  Speaker 1: threatened former lovers. In nineteen ninety six, police in Houston
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  Speaker 1: arrested Hartsfield after she and her then second husband got
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  Speaker 1: into a physical argument in their apartment. Hartsfield was charged
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  Speaker 1: with assault, but prosecutors dropped the case a week later
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  Speaker 1: for unknown reasons. The woman's husband at the time, who
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  Speaker 1: had been bruised and scraped, received a citation. He said
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  Speaker 1: the pair were married between nineteen ninety six and nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven and that he wanted to forget that period
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  Speaker 1: of his life, which he described as miserable. The jury
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  Speaker 1: sentenced Sarah Hartsfield to life in prison and to pay
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  Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars fine more crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: After this, A federal grand jury has indicted a Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: cop on charges of kidnapping and stocking his estranged girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: while he was on duty and in uniform in August.
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  Speaker 1: Alan James Greenman, thirty eight, was arrested for the incident
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  Speaker 1: on August twenty first, and lost his job with the
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  Speaker 1: Clarksville Police Department. Court documents say that Greenman used a
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  Speaker 1: utility company gatecode, something not available to the general public,
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  Speaker 1: to access his ex girlfriend's gated apartment complex in the
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  Speaker 1: early morning of August twentieth. The document showed Greenman entering
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  Speaker 1: the complex in his patrol vehicle at five thirty seven am,
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  Speaker 1: starting his shift at five thirty eight am while inside
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  Speaker 1: the complex, than leaving about five minutes later. He returns
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  Speaker 1: at six ten am, and leaves again at six twenty
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  Speaker 1: three am. The court document say the ex girlfriend had
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  Speaker 1: told Greenman she didn't want him at her home while
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't there, and she had seen him there on
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  Speaker 1: her doorbell camera that morning, texting him and calling him
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  Speaker 1: to leave. She returned to her complex just after Greenman
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  Speaker 1: had left the second time, but he followed her in
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  Speaker 1: still in his patrol vehicle and on duty. Then he
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  Speaker 1: parked and followed her into the apartment, where they argued.
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  Speaker 1: The complaint says that Greenman accused her of cheating on him,
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  Speaker 1: even though they were not together at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: demanded that she give him her cell phone. She told
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  Speaker 1: him to get out, saying this isn't worth your job
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  Speaker 1: or mine. At that point, the on duty in uniform
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  Speaker 1: police officer grabbed a screwdriver and stabbed the victim's television.
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  Speaker 1: Greenman then fought the victim over her personal cell phone
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  Speaker 1: and broke it. She tried to escape the apartment, but
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  Speaker 1: Greenman threw her across the room and onto the bed,
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  Speaker 1: punching her in the head several times. When she tried
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  Speaker 1: to leave again, Greenman drew his service weapon and pointed
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  Speaker 1: it at her, telling her, I'm going to kill you.
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  Speaker 1: The woman said she begged for her life as her
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  Speaker 1: four year old son slept in the next room. She
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  Speaker 1: told investigators she tried multiple times to get out, but
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  Speaker 1: every time Greenman would threaten her and break more of
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  Speaker 1: her belongings. Ultimately, she grabbed her work cell phone, grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her son from his bed, and Greenman let her leave.
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  Speaker 1: According to the court documents, Clarksville police officers have censors
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  Speaker 1: on their holsters that activate their patrol vehicle's camera when
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  Speaker 1: the weapon is drawn. The footage from Greenman's vehicle pointed
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  Speaker 1: directly at the apartment and triggered when he pulled his gun.
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  Speaker 1: Activated at six fifty eight am. About thirty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: the victim exits the apartment carrying the child. Greenman remained
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  Speaker 1: in the apartment for about forty five more minutes before
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  Speaker 1: leaving and driving away. While in the vehicle, Greenman had
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  Speaker 1: a conversation with someone, probably on his phone. The documents say,
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  Speaker 1: he appeared to be contemplating suicide. Quote everything is way
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  Speaker 1: past being fixed because I broke all her phone. She
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  Speaker 1: was crying like cray. I attacked her multiple times, pulled
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  Speaker 1: a gun on her like there's no coming back from
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  Speaker 1: any of this. Although he later denied pulling his gun,
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  Speaker 1: both the holster censor and this conversation contradict that claim. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: till the victim had contacted Clarksville police, who began looking
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  Speaker 1: for him. They eventually found him back in the woman's apartment,
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  Speaker 1: hiding under her clothing. In her closet, he had his
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  Speaker 1: personal pistol and was no longer in uniform. When interviewed
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  Speaker 1: by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, he told agents he
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  Speaker 1: had driven home, changed out of his uniform, and taken
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  Speaker 1: an uber back to the victim's home to get some
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  Speaker 1: of his belongings. Clarksville Police said Greenman was placed on
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  Speaker 1: administrative leave immediately after his arrest and fired on September fifth.
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  Speaker 1: The federal indictment charges Greenman with kidnapping, stocking, and deprivation
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  Speaker 1: of rights. He also faces state charges of domestic related
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  Speaker 1: aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping. When he was arrested in August,
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  Speaker 1: Greenman was given a seventy five thousand dollars bond. He
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  Speaker 1: does not currently appear on an inmate roster at the
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery County Jail. His next court appearance is December fourth.
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