Episode 88
Sarah Hartsfield didn’t weave a web of silk — she wove a web of control.A web of manipulation.A web she masked with charisma and charm until it finally snapped under its own weight.
In October 2025, a jury convicted Sarah Hartsfield of murdering her husband, Joseph Hartsfield, after deliberating for just one hour. One hour — despite the fact that the physical evidence was thin, the investigation delayed, and the medical questions complex. But what wasn’t thin was the pattern that emerged the moment investigators stepped back an...
Episode 88
Sarah Hartsfield didn’t weave a web of silk — she wove a web of control.
A web of manipulation.
A web she masked with charisma and charm until it finally snapped under its own weight.
In October 2025, a jury convicted Sarah Hartsfield of murdering her husband, Joseph Hartsfield, after deliberating for just one hour. One hour — despite the fact that the physical evidence was thin, the investigation delayed, and the medical questions complex. But what wasn’t thin was the pattern that emerged the moment investigators stepped back and looked at Sarah’s life in full.
In this episode, we strip away the decades of allegations — the shootings, the fires, the chaos — and start exactly where the jury started: with Joe’s death.
With the 911 call.
With the deleted searches.
With the late-night texts from a man who should have been unconscious.
With the video Sarah recorded of her husband gasping for breath.
Then we will explore what prosecutors revealed once the pattern of Sarah’s past began to surface — a shocking trail of manipulation, alleged violence, suspicious fires, and the relentless pursuit of control that followed Sarah from childhood to court.
This is not just the story of one death.
It’s the story of a woman who built an entire life on domination — a Black Widow who spun a web so tangled that, in the end, she became trapped in it herself.
Welcome to “Burn, Marry, Kill: The Wicked Web of Sarah Hartsfield.”
A story of murder, manipulation, and the flames she allegedly used to keep control.
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Tim Stelloh, Kelley Moody, Mario J. Garcia, Vince Sturla.
After woman was charged in her husband’s murder, authorities take a fresh look at other deaths close to her.
NBC News. April 28, 2023.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sarah-hartsfield-alleged-murder-husband-david-bragg-dateline-rcna81260
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The Two Sides of Sarah: Chambers County woman accused of murdering husband Joseph Hartsfield.
Click2Houston. Published May 18, 2023; updated February 23, 2024.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/05/18/the-two-sides-of-sarah-chambers-county-woman-accused-of-murdering-husband-joseph-hartsfield/
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Lead detective details phone data, deleted messages in Sarah Hartsfield’s insulin murder trial.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27417687/
