Jennings Layfate Barfield, a 54-year-old white male, died on March 22, 1971, from what was recorded as heart complications. He had married Velma Barfield (born Margie Velma Bullard) in 1970. The day before his death, March 21, 1971, Velma reportedly poisoned Jennings with arsenic-based rat poison, causing breathing problems; he was hospitalized and died about 24 hours later.

Jennings’s death was initially attributed to natural causes. Years later, after arsenic was found in the remains of another of Velma’s acquaintances in 1978, investigators reexamined past deaths connected to her, and she confessed to Jennings’s killing along with the deaths of her mother Lillian Bullard and others. Velma Barfield was arrested, convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death.

Are there medical or forensic details from Jennings’s 1971 hospitalization that anyone can share or document?