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Shirley Winters (born February 27, 1958) is a convicted murderer and arsonist from upstate New York. In 1980, she smothered her five-month-old son, Ronald Winters III. In 2007, she drowned 23-month-old Ryan Rivers. She is suspected of setting a fire which killed her two older children in 1979, and one the day prior that killed a friend's three children. Per a plea bargain, she cannot be prosecuted for those. ==Early life== In 1966, Winters' 10-year-old brother and 4 and 11-year-old sisters died from an apparent carbon monoxide leak in the family home.〔("New York Mom Charged in 1980 Death of Child" FoxNews.com AP 3/29/07 )〕 In 1979, Winters' first two children, 3-year-old Colleen and 20-month-old John, died in a 1979 fire in the family's Hyde Lake cabin in Theresa, New York. Investigators blamed an electrical defect.〔("On a Trail of Tragedies" Syracuse Post-Standard O'Brien, John 3/28/07 )〕 When her children's bodies were exhumed in March 2007, autopsies showed Colleen and John received blunt force head injuries before the fire had started.〔("Winters enters guilty plea for manslaughter" News 10 Now Carey, Bill 4/29/07 )〕 The day before that fire started at Winters' cabin, another fire started at Winters' friend's house in Hermon, New York, while her friend's three children were still inside. St. Lawrence County police re-investigated this fire in 2007.〔("Most Pyromaniacs Are Not Killers" Syracuse Post-Standard O'Brien, John 4/8/07 )〕 Winters was near at least seventeen fires since the 1979 ones, nine determined as arson.〔("Mom Accused of Killing Son" Syracuse Post-Standard O'Hara, Jim and O'Brien, John 3/29/07 )〕 She pleaded guilty to criminal mischief in relation to two in 1981. A November 12, 1989 fire started in a Syracuse home where Winters was staying with her three children. She rescued her four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son, but lost her five-year-old daughter, who rescued herself.〔("The Life of Shirley Winters" Syracuse Post-Standard 3/21/07 )〕 She was convicted of burning her mother's home in 1997. Her mother died in a car accident two months before Winters began her eight-year prison term. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shirley Winters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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