Denise Frei Killer Kin

In season 7, episode 16, the murder of Curtis

Bailey by Denise Leone Frei is shown. The show is titled Killer Kin and Discovery ID's Deadly Women describes as Women that convince their closest relatives to become party to murder..

Denise Leone Frei was convicted of first-degree murder of Curtis Bailey. and sentenced to life without parole.

Jacob Hilgendorf, her son, Jessica Dayton, his friend, assisted in the killing and have been sentencedto prison.

Her appeal (see link) includes:

In response to a 911 call shortly before 2:00 a.m. on July 19, 2009, police found Denise Frei sitting on the front porch of the home she shared with Curtis Bailey in Marengo, Iowa.1 She had blood on her shirt and hands. Inside, Bailey’s dead body lay on the living room floor, beaten severely with blunt objects. Frei told the police she had been upstairs and overheard a drug deal “gone bad” and then found Bailey’s body. Later, however, she admitted that she had killed Bailey with the help of her eighteen-year-old son and his girlfriend.

Frei was charged with first-degree murder. At trial, she relied on defenses of justification and insanity. She testified that Bailey subjected her to humiliating and degrading emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse and that he threatened to kill her children and grandchild if she ever left him.    She described Bailey as an extremely jealous and controlling person who checked her sales receipts after shopping trips to see if her purchases had been rung up by a male cashier. If the receipts evidenced
the involvement of a male cashier, Bailey forced her to return the items Frei   described Bailey as her common law husband.

You can write to Denise Leone Frei at:

Denise Leone Frei 6394633
Iowa Correctional Institution for Women
420 Mill St SW

Mitchellville, IA 50169

At the end of the day, if you do not learn that going along with someone else's crime from this, you never will.