Yes! My father was always threatening my mother, and when they were fighting he was always the one who started it. I wouldn’t put anything past my father, Alberic stated. I went to the judge and we finally got permission to exhume the body. On April 1, 1986, almost three years after she had been buried, Sharon’s body was exhumed and taken to a local funeral home for verification that the body was that of Sharon Williams, and to insure that all legal procedures were followed. Her body was shipped to St. Charles County, Missouri, for an autopsy. After careful examination, Dr. Case determined that Sharon Williams had died as a result of blows from a blunt instrument to the skull—not from the vehicle accident. Sharon Williams had been murdered.

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During the course of the investigation we learned that her husband had battered her and her children for years. On several occasions she tried to leave him, but he would always find her and bring her and the children home. Then after a while the battering would start all over again. Murder is considered a crime of passion. The altercations often trivial to anyone but those involved: quarrels over money or girlfriends. Murder is swift for the victim and can happen to anyone—rich, poor, old, young. It can happen anywhere, day or night and all to often it is one spouse killing another. Police rushed to the scene. The officers approached the vehicle. A female fully clothed was slumped over the steering wheel of the car. She appeared to have been dead for several days. Police detected that there were several bullet holes in the clothing of her upper torso. The front doors of the vehicle were standing open, and it appeared that she had been shot from both sides of the station wagon execution style.Another caller told the police she had known Marie since August 1980 and occasionally had lunch with Marie. She said that Dr. Azevedo seemed to upset Marie very much and there appeared to be problems with child abuse on the part of the father. She said Dr. Azevedo came over to the United States before the rest of the family. Later, when Marie and the boy came over from India to join him, his son did not remember him. Dr. Azevedo beat him, trying to get him to remember. Marie told her that when they lived in Chicago, she turned him into the Department of Children and Family Services after he placed the boy in a trash can and said, I don’t want you if your not going to love me. The tragedy of this case didn’t end here. During the trial one of the sons, who was now fifteen years old, listened to the evidence and realized that his father had killed his mother and got away with it. He obtained a gun and while his dad was taking a nap in his dentist office, he shot and killed him. The young man loaded the body into a car, but was caught when his car broke down before he could dispose of the body. The police entered the information into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and started patrolling the last area Marie had been seen. The next day the story hit the local newspapers. Immediately the police began to receive calls with information in reference to the homicide. One person said that he and his wife were in need of some dental work and some friends recommended Dr. Azevedo. Their appointment was in January 1980 during the divorce of the dentist and Marie. He told the police that all Dr. Azevedo talked about was the difficult divorce he was going through. He said that Dr. Azevedo was very bitter toward the wife because this type of proceeding was not acceptable in his Indian culture.

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We learned that he had mood swings, which she learned quite well over the years. He was entering another abusive stage. She couldn’t take any more so she got a shotgun and while he was asleep she killed him. Through other information that the sheriff’s investigators had obtained, the sheriff had reason to believe that the missing husband had been dumped in a cesspool behind a home belonging to Jim Williams, Sr. The problem was he had no probable cause to get a search warrant. One morning I went to the office early to catch up on some paperwork. It was about 6:30 a.m. I was reading and, although I didn’t hear anyone, I had the feeling there was someone in the room. I looked up to find a woman standing in front of my desk. Her small frame of about ninety pounds was still as she looked at me with eyes that looked like glass marbles. Marie said Dr. Azevedo did not want the youngest child to go to a babysitter or to play with other children. He preferred the child stay in his office by herself.Tammy Slaton’s approval for weight loss surgery was a big part of 1000-Lb. Sisters Season 4 Episode 5. But that wasn’t the only thing “Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread” revealed about the Slaton Family. Tammy’s sister Amy Slaton Halterman mentions their grandfather In the episode. He got poisoned with antifreeze by their uncle in the late 1980s. Here’s the story of the Slaton’s grandfather’s death as mentioned in volume two of Murder in the Heartland. Amy Slaton, Tammy Slaton, and Chris Combs | TLC ‘Murder in the Heartland Volume 2’ mentions Amy and Tammy’s grandfather’s death by antifreeze

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When Chris Combs arrives “looking like their grandfather” to help Amy plant a vegetable garden, she tells cameras how the family patriarch was murdered by his son. Spiller’s 2003 book has a chapter titled “The Antifreeze Murder (Shawneetown, IL),” which details how Charles H. Ellis murdered his father in 1986. Staring at the police with cold eyes, Dr. Azevedo said, I will see to my children, but police noticed he showed little concern for the disappearance of his former wife. According to the Logansport Pharos-Tribune, a Logansport, Indiana newspaper, Shawneetown resident Ellis was arrested and charged with three counts of murder in December 1986. He was “suspected of spiking his father’s iced tea with antifreeze.” Ellis was living with 61-year-old Charles T. Ellis at the time. This information was enough to implicate Jim Williams, Sr., as a suspect on Sharon’s death and also gave the sheriff probable cause to get a search warrant for the cesspool behind the home belonging to Williams. The sheriff was right. The body of the missing spouse was found in a cesspool wearing clothing that fit the description given on the day he was reported missing. The evidence was enough to arrest Jim William, Sr., for the double murder of his wife and his girlfriend’s husband. He would be convicted of both murders a year later.Police continued the questioning with eleven-year-old Andrew. He told the police the same story. Andrew stated that his mother said, with a smile, I’ll see you this evening.