Texas woman is convicted of husband's murder years after she killed another partner

Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman accused of killing her most recent husband with a fatal dose of insulin two years ago, was convicted of murder Wednesday.

Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman accused of killing her most recent husband with a fatal dose of insulin two years ago, was convicted of murder Wednesday.

The verdict came after about an hour of deliberations and seven days of testimony in a trial that focused almost as much on allegations from Hartsfield’s past as it did on the death of Joseph Hartsfield — her fifth husband — on Jan. 15, 2023.

In her closing argument Wednesday, Chambers County Assistant District Attorney Mallory Vargas said Sarah Hartsfield believed she’d get away with her husband’s murder “because it’s what she’s always done.”

"What a wild coincidence that no person can leave her without consequences," Vargas said.

An attorney for Hartsfield, Case Darwin, countered that prosecutors had no evidence that his client administered the fatal dose of insulin and instead sought to focus the jury on “unsubstantiated innuendo.”