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Winnie Ruth McKinnell was born on January 29, 1905, to the Reverend H.J. McKinnell, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Carrie, in Oxford, Indiana.At age 17, she married Dr. William C. Judd, a World War I veteran more than twenty years her senior, and moved to Mexico with him.
Murderess: The Winnie Ruth Judd Story is an all-puppet, feature-length narrative film that retells the story of Phoenix's infamous trunk murders of 1931.. The film, written and directed by Scott Coblio, was produced in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2007 on a shoestring budget.
Doll made by Winnie Ruth Judd, the Trunk Murderess, while imprisoned in the Arizona State Prison. It is on display in the Pinal County Historic Society & Museum located at 715 S. Main St. On February 20, 2014, the doll and the story of Judd's crime were featured in an episode of Mysteries at the Museum TV show titled the “Blonde Butcher”. [15]
She was deemed sane and put to death by hanging. Her head came off during the execution. Death by hanging was immediately discontinued. She remains the only woman executed in Arizona. Ernest McFarland served as the attorney for the prosecution. In 1933 Winnie Ruth Judd received a sanity hearing in the courthouse after a double murder conviction ...
Bury Me Deep is a 2009 mystery novel written by Megan Abbott and published by Simon & Schuster.. The book is "a cunningly fictionalized" version of a 1931 crime story in which Winnie Ruth Judd was convicted of the murder of two women in Los Angeles. [1]
On August 18, 2012, Wynonna Judd and her husband Michael, who goes by Cactus, were out on a Harley ride with a few friends in South Dakota. Then, the unthinkable happened: he collided with a car ...
In 1932 in Phoenix, Speakman presided at the murder trial of Winnie Ruth Judd, a case which achieved considerable notoriety. He sentenced the defendant to be executed by hanging, a sentence which was subsequently repealed after she was found to be mentally incompetent. [3]
Wynonna Judd’s daughter, Grace Pauline Kelley, has had her fair share of ups and downs over the years.. Judd welcomed Grace with ex-husband Arch Kelley III in June 1996. The country singer ...