Episode 527: Murderer Audrey Marie Hilley

13 O'Clock · Sep 24, 2026

Audrey Marie Hilley was an Alabama murderer whose crimes involved arsenic poisoning, elaborate deception, and a bizarre attempt to assume a new identity. In 1975, she poisoned her husband, Frank Hilley, whose death was initially attributed to natural causes. Four years later, she began poisoning her teenage daughter, Carol, who survived after doctors discovered arsenic in her system. As investigators uncovered evidence of Audrey’s crimes, she fled Alabama, eventually resurfacing under an assumed identity and later pretending to be her own fictional twin sister. Her extraordinary scheme…