Between May 1985 and 1988, she hired two men, Edwin Gordon and Lionel Robinson, for a series of brutal insurance murders in Baltimore, Maryland.
For this purpose, Parrish urged relatives, friends and acquaintances to make life insurance policies that made her the only beneficiary in the event of an untimely death.
[1][2] After the unsuccessful attempt to kill Dolly Brown in May 1988, Edwin Gordon was arrested and soon began cooperating with investigators.
[2] Subsequently, Parrish was suspected of committing several more murders, after it became clear that 77-year-old Rayfield Gilliard died in February 1988, 15 days after marrying her.
The death certificate stated that Gilliard had died from a cardiovascular disease, but there was no record in his medical history that he ever had any heart problems.
In May, she and Edwin Gordon pleaded guilty to organizing and committing four murders between November 1985 to May 1988, in order to receive insurance benefits in the amount of $39,000.