They called her “Cornbread.”
Not because of where she was from — but because of what her husband was eating when she pulled the trigger.
Conley, now serving a life sentence, has become known across true-crime documentaries as “The Cornbread Killer.” Her case is one of love, addiction, and fatal decisions that left a family shattered and a community stunned.
She met her husband when she was just 18 years old and he was 42 — a 24-year age difference. Despite the difference in age, the two stayed together for nearly 20 years. But behind closed doors, Conley says their relationship was full of arguments, drug use, and emotional distance.
In a prison interview, Conley admits her addiction played a major role in the tragedy. She recalls sitting in the house, mind clouded by drugs, staring at a gun.
“That gun just kept fallin’ over… kept catchin’ my attention,” she said.
“Something was calling me to it.”
Then came the moment that changed everything.
Her husband sat at the table and asked one simple thing:
“Can you make me some cornbread?”
Conley remembers replying, “Yeah, just a minute.”
But instead of heading to the kitchen — she went for the gun.
She shot him.
The man she had spent two decades with died still waiting for his cornbread.
When police arrived, she was calm. She told investigators it was the drugs. The stress. The years of silent resentment. But prosecutors said it was cold-blooded murder.
In court, she showed little emotion. The jury found her guilty of murder, and she was sentenced to life in prison.
To this day, Conley says she regrets it — but admits she can never undo what happened.
“He didn’t deserve it,” she said.
“But I can’t take it back.”
Now the world knows her only by one name — Cornbread — a nickname born out of a meal that was never served, and a life that can never be undone.