Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Anjette Lyles -Wife, Mother, Restaurant Owner, SERIAL KILLER

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Recorded06 Jul 2025

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Anjette and Ben Lyles are a young married couple with two children. Ben is a WW2 veteran and together he and Anjette work in his family restaurant in Macon, Georgia. When Ben sells the restaurant for below market value to settle a gambling debt, Anjette is furious. A few months after selling the restaurant, Ben gets very sick, very fast, and dies without doctors figuring out what killed him. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the death of Ben Lyles as well as Anjette's new husband, Buddy Gabbert, Anjette's first mother-in-law, Julia Lyles, and Anjette's daughter, Marcia. Joe explains how Anjette Lyles got away with murder, at first, and what led to her ultimate arrest, conviction, and death sentence. Transcript Highlights 00:00.21 Introduction 02:09.23 Eating at Hospital cafeteria 05:02.11 Ben Lyles sells restaurant to settle gambling debt, Anjette is furious 06:45.30 Ben Lyles dies, doctors don't know why 09:21.66 Diagnosis by symptoms 14:43.53 Ben's mother worked at Restaurant 18:26.54 Anjette buys the restaurant 20:01.78 Anjette marries Buddy Gabbert 25:07.03 Doctors not looking for arsenic 30:08.42 Symptoms were miserable, Buddy dies 35:32.05 Anjette seen lighting black candle and talking to it 40:00.01 Coroner's Inquest 44:51.91 Coroner gets anonymous letter about Anjette using arsenic ant poison to kill 50:09.65 One month after Marcia dies, Anjette is arrested, charged with murder 51:25.26 Sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to life in prison See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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