She was convicted in the 2001 murder, along with her lover and fellow Sunday school teacher, James Pavatt. Pavatt, who had sold Rob Andrew an $800,000 life insurance policy, had confessed to ...
U.S. Supreme Court ordered 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take up Brenda Andrew's complaints about her trial again.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Brenda Evers Andrew another chance to challenge her death sentence and conviction for the murder of her estranged husband. Andrew, who was sentenced to death in 2004, ...
Her convicted co-conspirator and paramour, life insurance agent James Pavatt, was also sentenced to death. Prosecutors during her trial presented evidence that she sought to benefit from her ...
After over two decades of imprisonment for killing her husband, Brenda Andrew's team now argue prosecutors used sexist tactics to influence the jury.
James Pavatt, Andrew's lover, also is on death row after he was convicted of killing Andrew with a shotgun in the family garage in Oklahoma City. In an unsigned opinion, the justices ordered the ...
Her alleged accomplice in the crime, 71-year-old James Pavatt, is also facing execution. On Nov. 20, 2001, Rob Andrew came to the family home to pick up his son and daughter for Thanksgiving.
Oklahoma prosecutors sought to prove she conspired with her then-partner, James Pavatt, to reap insurance proceeds from her husband’s death. To do so, they elicited racy testimony including ...
Over the years, their marriage became increasingly strained. James Pavatt, an insurance agent, attended the same church as the Andrews. Pavatt and Brenda Andrew, who started teaching Sunday school ...
Her convicted co-conspirator and paramour, life insurance agent James Pavatt, was also sentenced to death. Her lawyers had told the Supreme Court that the evidence presented in the case "was not ...