Status: Incarcerated In Oxygen's Snapped, Season 3, episode 11 the story of her husband Bruce Miller and Stella Nickell is shown. This happens in the state of Washington. Oxygen describes this show as: Stella Nickell wanted her husband Bruce's hefty life insurance, and was willing to use cyanide poison to get it in June 1986.. Stella Nickell''s release date is given as July 10, 2040 Her appeal includes: You can write to Stella Nickell at: Finally, Nickell contends that the district court committed reversible error by giving two Allen-type instructions to the jury during its deliberations. On the afternoon of Friday, May 6, after deliberating for three days, the jury reported itself deadlocked. The court at that point decided to accede to an earlier request by the jury to reread portions of the trial transcript. The court advised the jury that it would obtain the relevant portions of the trial transcript for them over the weekend, and would l...