Murdered husband escapes 'Shrine of Evil' only days after killer Stacey Castor dies

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David Castor Sr.'s grave in 2009 at the Owasco Rural Cemetery.

(Courtesy of Taryn DiTomasso)

Owasco, NY -- The body of Stacey Castor's second husband can be moved by his surviving family away from a plot owned by his murderous wife, a judge ruled Wednesday.

State Supreme Court Justice Anthony Paris's order came four days after Castor unexpectedly died in prison. Castor, 48, was serving a 51 1/2-year-to-life sentence for poisoning her second husband and trying to murder her own daughter. She was convicted after a high-profile trial in 2009.

Her husband, David Castor, was poisoned to death by antifreeze in 2005. He was buried in a plot owned by Stacey Castor in Owasco Rural Cemetery.

But David Castor's son -- who is not Stacey's son -- asked a judge less in late April of this year to give him permission to relocate his father's body from Owasco to a plot in Clay.

David Castor Jr. told the judge in court papers that it was "troubling to me in knowing that my father's murder (Stacey R. Castor) intends to be buried in a plot next to my father." He called the plot Stacey's "Shrine of Evil."

Little did he know that Stacey Castor would be dead less than two months after writing those words.

Stacey Castor in court in 2009.

Stacey Castor was found dead at 6:48 a.m. Saturday in a women's prison in Westchester County. Her cause of death is unknown. More tests are being performed to determine how she died.

Her body will eventually be released to a funeral home and, presumably, buried in Owasco per her wishes.

The lawyer representing David Castor's family said today he didn't know when or if Stacey Castor would be buried there. But given she owns the plot, lawyer Jim Meggesto asked a judge to speed up the process this week in getting the body moved.

Paris's order Tuesday allowed David Castor Jr. to move his father's body and to have his father's current gravestone destroyed. The gravestone memorialized him as "Husband of Stacey R."

Castor Jr.'s request was not opposed by the cemetery, but it still requires a court order to move a body, Meggesto said.

The case had been scheduled to proceed June 29 before Stacey Castor's death sped the process up.

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