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at a local garage. Quick promotions placed him in charge of 40 employees, but Catlin had expensive tastes, and cash was always short. On
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Bakersfield, his third ex-wife had followed the series of deaths in Catlin's life, and she approached the local sheriff with suspicions. Joyce Catlin had
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In 1981, Catlin's employers at the Fresno garage noticed missing auto parts. A subsequent background check turned up his criminal record, and he was forced to resign, though no charges were filed. Financially, the strain began to mount. On
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Bakersfield's Mercy Hospital with a severe "flu"; she seemed to improve, then took a sudden turn for the worse and died of "pneumonia" in May 1977. Also, in the same month, Catlin married his fifth wife, Glenna Kaye, and moved to Fresno, finding employment
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On June 1, 1990, a Kern County jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder counts of Joyce and Martha Catlin. The jury agreed with the prosecution's allegations of special circumstances (murder for financial gain, murder by poison, and multiple murders). On June 6, 1990, the jury fixed Catlin's
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Monterey County (owing to pretrial publicity) before the Kern County trial. In April 1986, Catlin was convicted of Glenna Kaye's
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December 8, Catlin's mother, Martha, collapsed and died from a "stroke," shortly after a visit by Steven and his fiancée. Catlin had ordered that his mother's body be cremated, but the process was postponed until an autopsy could be performed.
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