In eleven month’s time, Sylvia Ipock White will be released from prison after being granted parole. White is serving two life sentences in the death of her 4-year-old stepson and hiring a hitman to kill her husband.

In 1995, Sylvia Ipock White was tried on an indictment of first-degree murder of her stepson, Billy C. White II. The jury found her guilty of first-degree murder and White was sentenced to life imprisonment.

White lived in Kinston with her husband Billy White, Sr. In June of 1973, Billy C. White II was taken to the emergency room where he was pronounced dead, believed to have swallowed a piece of plastic. Upon further inspection, a large piece of plastic laundry bag with no torn edges or teeth marks was removed from the child’s throat. The original death certificate stated the death was accidental.

In 1991, White conspired with two men to kill her husband. After White’s arrest for her involvement in the conspiracy to kill her husband, Billy C. White II’s body was exhumed and reexamined. A jury of her peers found White guilty of first degree murder.