Ash Kelley

At one point, when the prosecutor was like, there was no blackmail, you were just supposed to make payments for the murder that you hired somebody for, she said, I did not!

I did not!

I did not!

I did not do that!

even though her testimony was riddled with outbursts and sarcastic remarks frequent bouts of weeping all of the above she did manage to stick to her story more or less her protests and her insistent that she was the victim were consistent but they were nothing compared to the mountain of evidence and testimony linking her to the murder of Olga

So on March 17th, 1959, after a brief deliberation, the jury returned to the courtroom to find Elizabeth Duncan guilty of the first degree murder of Olga Kupchik.

The verdict kind of shocked everybody in the court, but Elizabeth seemed to primarily focus on, you guessed it, her sonny boy.

After the verdict was read, she told him, don't worry too much, Frank.

Lord.

Later, when she was asked about the verdict, she told a reporter, I don't know how that jury could do this to me.

I didn't do it.

You did.

Okay.

In the week that followed, the jury heard arguments in the penalty phase, first to determine if Elizabeth was of sound mind when she committed the crime.

I bet that probably went on for a long time.

than to determine the actual penalty.

In his testimony, psychiatrist Dr. Louis Nash said of the evaluation, Hell yeah, you did.

But when asked whether he believed Elizabeth met the criteria for mental incompetency, he said, I did not find her to be insane.

So he said, she's sane.

She's just a lot.