She has been denied parole but has privileges which allow her to eat outside the prison complex provided she is accompanied by a court-approved sponsor.
[4][6] "Till Death Do Us Part: The Barbara Stager Story", is an episode of A&E's television series American Justice, which profiled the case.
[7][8] Jerry Bledsoe wrote a book in 1994 about the case, entitled Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder,[9] which was later made into a TV movie in 1998 with the same title starring Jaclyn Smith.
[10] Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women series portrayed the story in the 2010 "Fortune Hunters" episode[11] and their Scorned: Love Kills revisited the case in its own "'Til Debt Do Us Part", in 2012.
[14] In 1999, the Discovery Channel's The New Detectives series, Season 4, Episode 6, "Women Who Kill" featured Barbara Stager's crime.