Debora Green, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American doctor, convicted for murder
Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1951
Place of Birth: Havana, Illinois, United States
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Debora Green
- Debora Green (née Jones; born February 28, 1951) is an American physician who pleaded no contest to setting a 1995 fire which burned down her family's home and killed two of her children, and to poisoning her husband with ricin with the intention of causing his death.
- The case was sensational, and covered heavily by news media, especially in the Kansas–Missouri area, where the crimes occurred.
- Though Green has petitioned for a new trial twice in recent years, her requests have not been successful. Green married Michael Farrar in 1979 while practicing as an emergency physician.
- The marriage was tumultuous, and Farrar filed for divorce in July 1995.
- Between August and September 1995, Farrar repeatedly fell violently ill, and despite numerous hospitalizations his doctors could not pinpoint the source of his illness.
- Green's emotional stability deteriorated and she began to drink heavily, even while supervising her children.
- On October 24, 1995, the Farrar family home, occupied by Green and the couple's three children, caught fire.
- Kate Farrar and Debora Green escaped without harm, but despite the efforts of firefighters, Timothy and Kelly Farrar died in the blaze.
- Investigation showed that trails of accelerant in the house led back to Green's bedroom, and that the source of Michael Farrar's intractable illness had been ricin, a poison served to him in his food by Green. Upon her arrest on November 22, 1995, Green was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and one count of aggravated arson.
- She was held on $3,000,000 bail—the highest ever required by Johnson County, Kansas—and maintained her innocence throughout pre-trial motions and a show cause hearing.
- However, when the defense's own investigators verified the strength of forensic evidence against Green, she agreed to an Alford plea to all charges.
- On May 30, 1996, she was sentenced to two concurrent forty-year prison sentences.
- Green has petitioned for a new trial twice since her conviction.
- Her first request, which she eventually withdrew, was based on a claim of having been rendered incompetent for plea bargaining by the psychiatric medications she was taking at the time of her hearings; her second, which was denied by a judge, claimed that the evidence used to convict her of arson had been rendered obsolete by scientific advances.
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