She wouldn't have gotten an insurance payout which seems to be the motive of most spousal murders... so why? taking also her children's RIGHT to THEIR own Father.
Water seeks its own level... M and S
Insurance money is not always the motivation of a spousal killing.
She had a strong sex drive, felt that the men could and would fulfill it, had cheated on her first husband with Lyle quite publicly, and was now cheating on Lyle equally publicly. She is horny and wasn't thinking straight in either situation, never gave a care for who she hurt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oed-Shawshank-escapee-end-prison-stripes.html
"Getaway granny Joyce Mitchell was a heartless, sex-crazed cheater who thought nothing of carrying on affairs and leaving a trail of devastation in her wake, her first husband has revealed in an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online.
Mitchell, now the most reviled woman in America, moved current husband Lyle into her marital home just 22 days after Tobey Premo moved out, Premo revealed.
And her court maneuverings prevented him from having any contact with their son, who was just a year old when the couple split, and led to him being reduced to living in a cockroach-infested hotel on a meager $91 a week."
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"'When we first got together in our 20s, we were having sex two or three times a day. She always wanted it. But once she got pregnant she never let me touch me. We went almost a year without any sex at all.'
'I thought her sex drive would have gone down by now,' said Premo, who described his ex as always having 'a healthy appetite' for sex. 'But apparently not.'"
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"'Now looking back, I remember how she would always dress herself up pretty good when she was going out to bars alone on Saturday nights.' Sometimes I had suspicions, but I never had proof.'
They split up for a while with Tillie leaving the trailer they had bought in Nicholville, New York, to go live with her mother.
'She and her mother did a real number on me,' Premo recalled. 'I got a call from a member of her family, even now I won't say who, saying they were coming round to the trailer to clean everything out at 6.30 the next morning."
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"Eventually Tillie did get almost everything. 'All I got was my clothes, some dishes and my television that was my pride and joy at the time,' said Premo. 'We had a ton of wedding gifts in the basement that we had never opened. She got them all.
'She even got my tools.'"