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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea or bottled water, beverage of your choice, and let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat, $5.51 a bushel, going down. 550 pound steer calf, $3.96. A butcher hog in Iowa, 57ยข a pound, and a 100 pound lamb in Billings at $2.16.
OK Solberg:But, guys, there's more, much more. Bible verse right up front. Now it's one you all know by heart. Did you know that? You don't think you know your Bible very well.
OK Solberg:You know this one. Exodus 20-13, thou shalt not kill. Four words, we all haven't memorized. It's a bible verse we've known since Sunday school. But listen to this story about a lady that went to church often and yet was so evil, she poisoned many of her own family members.
OK Solberg:Remember, I found that article in the Lima, Ohio newspaper from 1967, and it started out saying, and I quote, an attractive 35 year old housewife faced a hearing today on charges she murdered her teenage son by lacing his coffee with arsenic. First off, that's terrible. And second off, why in the world did the journalist use the word attractive? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
OK Solberg:My curiosity hung on to that one. Is that the way we're supposed to write now? Really? Okay. I'll give it a try.
OK Solberg:A really ugly man won the annual hog calling contest last Saturday answering to the name of Orvin Solberg. I don't get it, but curiosity caught me full bore. Listen to what I found. All true. You can research it yourself.
OK Solberg:Even a full book was written about the attractive murderer. I found this online and you can as well. It happened in Cordell, Georgia, a 173 miles south of where Johnny Daniels was raised. Listen as I read. Jani Lou Gibbs, born on Christmas day, 12/25/1932, she was an American serial killer from Cordell, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband by poisoning them with arsenic in 1966 and 1967.
OK Solberg:In 1965, Gibbs committed her first murder poisoning her husband Charles by putting arsenic into his dinner. While he was in the hospital, she brought him homemade soup containing more poison. After Charles' death, on 01/21/1966, doctors decided the cause of death had been a liver disease. After her husband's death, Gibbs was supported by the local church community. She later donated some of her husband's life insurance money to the church.
OK Solberg:Eight months after the death of Gibbs' husband, she poisoned her youngest son, 13 year old Marvin. He died on 08/29/1966. He was assumed to have inherited a liver disease from his father, but his death certificate listed hepatitis. Gibbs was not suspected of any wrong doing, and she again donated a large portion of her life insurance payment to the local church. On 01/23/1967, another one of Gibbs' sons, 16 year old Melvin, died suddenly.
OK Solberg:Doctors listed his cause of death as a rare muscular disorder, And for a third time, Gibbs donated most of the life insurance money to the church. Gibbs now had only one son left, 19 year old Roger. Roger had fathered a child named Ronnie with his wife, and Gibbs was seen to be delighted that she had become a grandmother. Soon, Ronnie became sick and died suddenly, followed only a month later by his father. Following the sudden deaths of a previously healthy young man and his infant son, the family physician became suspicious and referred the case to the state crime lab.
OK Solberg:An autopsy on Roger found that he he had ingested a fatal amount of arsenic. Gibbs was arrested for murder on Christmas day, and the bodies of her husband and two buried sons were exhumed. Autopsies conducted in the cemetery revealed each of the five murdered members of the Gibbs household had arsenic present in their bodies. Gibbs initially was found mentally unfit to stand trial and was confined to a mental institution where she worked as a cook. Later, she stood trial and was sentenced to five life sentences.
OK Solberg:She remained imprisoned until 1999 when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was released into the custody of her sister. She died in 2010 in a nursing home in Douglasville, Georgia. She admitted to killing five family members. No motive was provided. Her husband, her three sons, and even her baby grandson, Ronnie Edward Gibbs.
OK Solberg:End of article. Is that a sad tragic note? But as crazy as this world can get sometimes, we hear this kind of stuff, don't we, guys? And when we do, we count our blessings. In my 68 of life, no one, not one person ever tried to poison me.
OK Solberg:Count your blessings. Someone always has a more challenging time than us. I don't find this woman attractive at all. Now we live in a great small town. We trust people.
OK Solberg:But we hear stories like this from a church lady no less. We know that we need a discerning heart. I'll close with a 2nd bible verse, and it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment. Hebrews 1-9. What is discernment?
OK Solberg:Why? It's the ability to distinguish between truth and air, to distinguish between good and evil. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.