Diane Fleming

Diane Fleming is an American prisoner currently serving a 30-year sentence at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia. She is prisoner #311655. She was convicted in February 2002 for poisoning her third husband Chuck by spiking his Gatorade with methanol. Many people believe that Diane's conviction was a miscarriage of justice and have filed petitions to have her convictions for murder and adulteration overturned.
Early life
Diane Fleming was born in 1957 in Colorado. When she was 4, she moved to Fredericktown, Missouri and was raised on a farm. She became pregnant as a young woman by her first husband and gave birth to a son. A second marriage produced another son.
In 1989, she placed a personal advertisement in a Virginia newspaper, which Chuck Fleming responded to. The two married and Diane gave birth to a daughter in 1993. Chuck was a maintenance mechanic at Philip Morris USA in Richmond, Virginia, while Diane was a soccer mom. After his autopsy revealed that Chuck's cause of death was acute methanol poisoning, a criminal investigation began, and ultimately, his wife Diane was charged in the crime in July 2001. All of Diane's direct appeals have been exhausted, and her Habeas petitions have been denied, even though some tests can be argued to show that the Gatorade did not contain methanol.
Diane Fleming is currently working with the DC Innocence Project, an organization that helps wrongly convicted criminals to overturn their convictions. She is hopeful that her convictions will be overturned. There is a lot of evidence that could be used to argue she is not guilty of killing her husband Chuck. For example, one theory says that a multitude of toxicology tests of Chuck Fleming's tissue samples revealed no evidence of methanol poisoning, and that Chuck's death was instead caused by an overdose of aspartame and creatine. If all of Diane's efforts fail, she is scheduled to be released from prison on April 3, 2028. She will be 71 years old.
Diane's case has been televised on WE tv's Women Behind Bars in 2008 and on Oxygen Network's Snapped in 2010.

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