Christina Marie Riggs Death
Christina passed away on May 2, 2000 at the age of 28.
When did Christina Marie Riggs die?
May 2, 2000How old was Christina Marie Riggs when died?
28
Christina Marie Riggs Birthday and Date of Death
Christina Marie Riggs was born on September 2, 1971 and died on May 2, 2000. Christina was 28 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: September 2, 1971
Date of Death: May 2, 2000
Age at Death: 28
Christina Marie Riggs - Biography
Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was a murderer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. She was convicted of the November 4, 1997, murder of her two young children, Justin Dalton Thomas and Shelby Alexis Riggs. The children were killed in their beds at the family's Sherwood, Arkansas home. The murder plan involved giving the children undiluted potassium chloride just after giving them amitriptyline to sedate them. However, the potassium chloride was not diluted properly and it burned her son's veins, causing Justin terrible pain but not death. She eventually smothered him when the injection was ineffective. She then smothered her daughter Shelby, without injecting her, after seeing the pain that the drug caused Justin. She laid the children on her bed, covered them with a blanket, and wrote suicide notes. She then attempted suicide by taking twenty-eight amitriptyline pills and injecting herself with undiluted potassium chloride. Nineteen hours later, Riggs' mother discovered her unconscious on the floor of her home.
