Anjette Lyles story to replay on Halloween

An Investigation Discovery television program featuring convicted Macon killer Anjette Lyles will replay Halloween morning.

The "Deadly Women" program debuted Thursday night on the cable channel but is scheduled to run again at 11 a.m. Sunday, according the channel's website.

Lyles ran a restaurant on Mulberry Street in downtown Macon. She was the first white woman to be sentenced to Georgia’s electric chair after she was convicted in 1958 of poisoning her 9-year-old daughter with arsenic. Forensic evidence showed Lyles’ two husbands and a mother-in-law also died of arsenic poisoning. Lyles pocketed insurance money along the way and bought herself a shiny, new luxury car. A declaration of insanity kept her out of the electric chair, and she died at Central State Hospital in 1977.

In March, an Australian film crew visited Macon to interview former Bibb Sheriff Ray Wilkes, Judge J. Taylor Phillips, who as a young lawyer frequented Lyles’ restaurant. Jaclyn Weldon White, who authored the book “Whisper to the Black Candle” that chronicles the killings and Lyles’ affinity for voodoo and black magic, also shared her insight.

This story was originally published October 29, 2010 at 7:05 AM with the headline "Anjette Lyles story to replay on Halloween."