Lillian Bullard, a white female, died on December 30, 1974. At the time her death was attributed to natural causes, but later investigation linked her symptoms — intense diarrhea, vomiting and nausea shortly before death — to arsenic poisoning. Those findings connected her death to her daughter, Velma Barfield (born Margie Velma Bullard), who was later convicted of multiple murders including the killing of her mother.

Velma Barfield’s pattern of using arsenic emerged after investigators found arsenic in the remains of one of her lovers in 1978, prompting re-examination of other deaths in her circle. Barfield had a history of bad checks and prison time, cared for elderly people after release, and eventually confessed to several murders. She was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection on November 2, 1984.

Which details about Lillian Bullard’s life or last days might help connect her death to others in this series, and does anyone have additional information about her circumstances in late 1974?