Glamorous hitman Kaitlyn Conley has broken her silence for the first time since being jailed for poisoning her ex-boyfriend’s mother in a new Hulu docuseries.
Conley, 31, of Sauquoit, New York, was convicted in 2018 in the 2015 death of Mary Yoder, 60, whom she poisoned with colchicine, a drug used to treat gout.
Despite spending two-thirds of a decade in prison, the former receptionist — who worked for Yoder — showed no signs of remorse and denied responsibility for Yoder’s death in the Hulu series Little Miss Innocent: Passion. Poison. Prisonwhich debuted yesterday.
When asked if she had killed Yoder, a wide grin spread across the woman’s face. She laughed for a few seconds, then studied her expression.
“I’m sorry,” she began. “No, I didn’t kill Mary Yoder,” she finished, staring blankly at the interviewer.
Conley, wearing a demure red sweater and glasses, told interviewers she was “baring her soul” and that she sleeps “well at night — despite being in prison” after speaking out for the first time.
Conley, who had an on-again, off-again relationship with Yoder’s son Adam, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the murder.
Kaitlyn Conley, 31, of Sauquoit, New York, was convicted in 2018 in the 2015 death of Mary Yoder, 60, whom she poisoned with colchicine, a drug used to treat gout
Yoder “started getting sick” one day and “nobody really knew what was going on,” Conley said. Yoder began showing signs of illness toward the end of the day and “was running to the bathroom” until she abruptly passed out at the end of the day and later ended up in the hospital.
The couple worked together in Yoder’s chiropractic practice (pictured)
The killer claimed that Yoder “got sick” one day while they were at the office and “nobody really knew what was going on,” she said in the documentary.
Yoder began showing signs of illness toward the end of the day and kept running “to the bathroom” until she abruptly left at the end of the day, Conley alleged to the filmmakers.
In a voicemail message to her husband, Bill, the chiropractor told him she was “very sick.” At one point, after saying goodbye to her husband, she moaned, “Oh God, help me.”
Yoder’s daughter, Tamaryn, said that “my mother went from a healthy mother to a deceased person in less than 48 hours.”
Doctors had told Yoder she most likely had a gastrointestinal problem, which landed her in the hospital later that evening.
Yoder’s son and Conley’s ex, Adam, texted the killer to inform her. Conley said the couple had been broken up for about 10 months at the time.
Conley said she didn’t know “how serious it was” until she got to the hospital and saw her boss in the intensive care unit.
Conley had an on-again, off-again relationship with Yoder’s son Adam, who she believes had something to do with his mother’s murder, while maintaining her innocence
Conley became a suspect when she later admitted in an anonymous letter that her ex had the gout medication in his Jeep, which turned out to be true. The “eureka moment” for investigators was when she said: “[Men] “Don’t use poison, that’s a woman’s weapon” and grinned at them
“She couldn’t talk, she couldn’t move, she couldn’t gesture. And her eyes, she was terrified,” Bill emotionally told the documentary makers.
When coroner Kenneth Clark Yoder opened for an autopsy after her death, he was “shocked” because her organs looked “abnormal,” as if they were “decomposing,” he told the filmmakers.
When the toxicology reports were unrevealing, he went to the poison control center, which eventually traced her symptoms to colchicine poisoning.
Conley told the filmmakers, “At the time [she was in the hospital]It really seemed like a mystery, no one really knew what was happening or why.’
However, that is not what the prosecutors said.
Although Adam and Bill were initially suspects in the case, especially after an anonymous letter to police stated that the younger man had a bottle of colchicine in his Jeep, which was true.
Ultimately, attention turned to Conley after detectives asked her to come in for questioning because she had a strong bond with the family and worked for Yoder.
When coroner Kenneth Clark Yoder (pictured with her husband Bill) opened an autopsy after her death, he was “shocked” because her organs looked “abnormal” as if they were “decomposing,” he told the filmmakers.
Yoder’s daughter, Tamaryn, said that “my mother went from her healthy self to dying in less than 48 hours.”
During her interrogation, she kept pointing at her ex, which made Detective Robert Nelson suspicious.
“During the interview, she keeps saying how suspicious Adam was acting. You know, in my mind, she’s suddenly pointing a finger at Adam, just like in the letter,” he said.
When fellow researcher Mark Van Namee asked Conley if she was the author of the letter, she admitted that she was.
Another moment that incriminated Conley for investigators was when she told them, “[Men] “Don’t use poison, that’s a woman’s weapon,” he grinned at them.
“That was maybe the moment when a light bulb went on,” Van Namee said. “We were convinced we had the right person.”
Conley alleged that her relationship with Adam was toxic and that he was affectionate, “very intense” and “physically abusive.” She also accused him of sexually assaulting her, trying to strangle her, and that he would “black out” while drunk.
In the original trial, Conley had a jury that could not decide. After a second trial, she was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to nearly a quarter century. Her team of lawyers, and she herself, have maintained her innocence and have filed multiple appeals
Conley also allegedly cheated on Adam with one of his best friends, but she denied this to the filmmakers.
“He was just as toxic as Katie, in terms of the bad relationship between the two of them,” Tamaryn said in the documentary.
Despite the turmoil between the Conleys and the Yoders, the convicted felon says she still misses her boyfriend’s mother.
“I miss Mary,” Conley told filmmakers before choosing her words carefully. “I feel really bad that this situation has colored my relationship with her. Because I feel like I can’t really miss her because I’m fighting for my own life.
“So I look at all the cards on the table and say, ‘Oh my God, it must have been Bill,'” she said slowly. “And then I look at other things and say, ‘No, no, no, Adam had to be in it too.'”
Despite the turmoil between the Conleys and the Yoders, the convicted felon said she still misses her boyfriend’s mother
Adam and his mother had a strained relationship in the months leading up to her death, which Conley believes is an indication that he must have been involved in her death.
“I know it wasn’t me,” she said, trying to suppress a smile and continuing to deny that she was responsible.
In the original trial, Conley had a jury that was unable to reach a verdict. After a second trial, she was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to nearly a quarter century in prison.
Her team of attorneys, and she herself, have maintained her innocence and filed multiple appeals. Her team is currently preparing a motion for the appellate division, according to ABC News.
She is currently in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York.
“I hope she never gets out of prison,” Tamaryn said. “I would be fine with her doing 22 years and then getting killed. I would be happy.”
However, Conley said she will continue to fight for her innocence.
