On the nightstand was a bottle of liquor, a bottle of antifreeze and two glasses. When deputies arrived they kicked down the door and found David Castor naked, face down in a puddle of his own vomit on the bed. He didn’t show up to work this morning,” she said to the operator. “My husband has locked himself in our bedroom for the last day. On the afternoon of August 22, 2005, the local sheriff’s office received a call from Stacey Castor. However, according to Ashley by the time she graduated high school in June 2005 things between the Wallace girls and their stepdad begun to turn around. “David made it very clear that he didn’t really like me and my sister,” Bree Wallace told Snapped. It also didn’t help that he didn’t get along with his two new stepdaughters. “They’d fight because my mom did pay a majority of the bills, and David just paid for his toys,” says Ashley.
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With more free time on his hands David indulged himself in the toys of a grown man: motorcycles, snowmobiles and jet skis. Stacey began managing the books and working as a secretary at David’s business after their wedding. told Snapped, “It wasn’t a gold mine, but it definitely provided for the family very well.” David brought safety and stability to the Wallace women’s life and in 2003 he and Stacey were married. He ran a successful family business installing heat and air systems, which he had started with his father. “He wasn’t a drinker he didn’t go out at night,” she told Snapped. Unlike her hard partying late husband, David was, "responsible,” according to his ex-wife, Janice Poissant.
“My mom was never really around,” Ashley Wallace told Oxygen’s Snapped.Įventually, Stacey started dating again and in late 2001 met a recent divorcee named David Castor. As a single mom, Stacey worked long hours to support her family. The Wallace women tried to put on a brave face, but Mike’s death brought about challenges and changes. It was determined he died from a heart attack and was buried a week later. They called 911 but by the time they got him to the hospital, it was too late.
That all ended on January 11, 2000, when 12-year-old Ashley Wallace came home from school to find her father unconscious. They didn’t make a lot of money, but they had each other and their girls remember their childhood as a happy one. Mike settled down after his release from jail and got a job with an air conditioner manufacturer while Stacey worked in the billing department of an EMT service.
Their first daughter, Ashley, was born in 1987, and their second daughter, Bree, was born in 1991. Her first husband, Mike Wallace, was six years her senior and had a propensity for drinking and driving, so much so that he did a stint in prison for repeated DUI offenses. Questions still surround the death of her father, who was cremated before an autopsy could be performed and before the police realized they were dealing with a homicidal sociopath.īorn in 1967, Stacey Castor was raised in Upstate New York and married fresh out of high school. Castor, you are in a class all by yourself." By then she had left behind two dead husbands and two daughters who hated her guts - one of whom she poisoned and tried to frame for her crimes. In the annals of true crime it takes a lot to stick out, but as the judge who sentenced her to over 50 years in prison said, “Mrs.