Sheila Bellush was a thirty five year old mother of a set of quadruplets with her second husband and she had two preteen daughters from her first marriage. Her first husband was a wealthy millionaire named Alan Blackthorne. He was very controlling and violent and it took Sheila several years to work up the courage to leave him and take their daughters with her. He was the type who had to have the upper hand and control every situation and their divorce was very bitter and ugly. Even though he was wealthy, he didn't want to have to give her anything. She finally met another man after her divorce and they eventually got married and had a set of quadruplets, three boys and one girl. Sheila, her older daughters, her husband, and their babies all finally moved from Texas to Florida to get away from him. He couldn't stand not knowing where they had moved to and became obsessed with finding them and eventually he did find out where they were. He hatched a plot with a man who he played golf with to track her down and murder her. The friend wasn't interested in actually murdering her, so he knew a young guy named Joey Del Toro who agreed to it. On November 7, 1997, after traveling from Texas to Florida and locating their home, Del Toro broke into their home, shot Sheila in the face and slit her throat, and left the 22 month old quadruplets with their murdered mother for several hours. Sheila's oldest daughter found her mother's body and her baby siblings covered in their mother's blood when she returned home from school in the afternoon. There have been several crime shows about the case and Ann Rule wrote a book about it. Sheila had asked her sister in the event that Sheila was ever killed by Blackthorne, she wanted her sister to contact Ann Rule to write a book about it. Alan Blackthorne has spent the last fourteen years in a federal prison and died just this past week.
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