Saturday, October 4, 2025 - A Jury selection has begun in the high-profile murder trial of Sarah Hartsfield, the Texas woman accused of killing her fifth husband with insulin.
The 50-year-old faces accusations that she murdered her
husband, Joseph Hartsfield, in January 2023. Hartsfield pleaded not guilty.
According to a grand jury indictment filed in February 2023,
prosecutors allege she “intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an
individual, namely Joseph Hartsfield, by a manner and means unknown to the
grand jury.”
Joseph’s obituary says he d!ed in a hospital “due to
complications of an ischemic stroke, with his loving wife at his side.”
Hartsfield is currently in custody at the Chambers
County Jail in Texas and is held on a reduced bond of $2 million.
Prosecutors allege that Hartsfield, an Army veteran, used
her husband’s diabetes to cover up a homicide, allegedly injecting him
with dangerous amounts of insulin and delaying calling 911 for several
hours.
Hartsfield’s first marriage was to her high school
sweetheart, Titus Knoernschild. The couple married young, but the relationship
soon soured.
Knoernschild told ABC13 Houston that Sarah threatened
him during their separation, warning him not to be surprised if he didn’t
survive their divorce.
According to the local outlet, they divorced by 1995, but he
said she continued to harass him for years afterward, including showing up at
his Fort Hood office in 2008 until he obtained a no-contact order.
She went on to marry her second husband in the mid-1990s.
According to ABC13, Sarah was arrested in March 1996 for
allegedly assaulting him during a dispute at their Rio Bonito home.
The charge was dropped after about a week, ABC13
reported.
By the late 1990s, Sarah had remarried, and her third
marriage eventually ended in divorce in 2018. Around that time, she became
engaged to David Bragg in Minnesota.
On May 9, 2018, Sarah shot and killed Bragg in his home.
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