Winnie Ruth Judd The Trunk Murders

Author : J. Dwight Dobkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winnie Ruth Judd: the Trunk Murders written by J. Dwight Dobkins and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman who allegedly committed one of history's most heinous crimes reveals for the first time--through an investigative reporter--her role in the notorious 1931 "trunk murder."

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429944277
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones in the Desert written by Jana Bommersbach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream...until one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades, Taw Benderly worked his way into Loretta's heart, home, and business. Though the couple appeared to be happy, their lives behind closed doors told another story. Terri had always known that the handsome, charming, and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her mother—but she did not know the extent of the abuse or how far he would go to defraud her. Then, just before Christmas in 2004, Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned the shocking truth: That, before killing himself, Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta and left her. Bones in the Desert is the shocking story of a devoted mother and daughter, a successful business, and the man who would do everything to destroy it all ...

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615952667
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trunk Murderess written by Jana Bommersbach and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage. If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated the gallows" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times. If history is right, she only got her freedom at age 66-after serving more time than any other convicted murderer in the history of the nation—because Arizona was finally tired of punishing her. But if history is wrong, Winnie Ruth Judd's life was squandered in a horrible miscarriage of justice. Award-winning journalist Jana Bommersbach reinvestigates the twisted, bizarre murder case that has captivated the nation for decades. She not only uncovers evidence long hidden, but gets Winnie Ruth Judd to break her life-long silence and finally speak. In telling the story of this American crime legend, Bommersbach also tells the story of Phoenix, Arizona—a backwater town that would become a major American city—and the story of a unique moment in American history filled with social taboos. But most of all, she tells the story of a woman with the courage to survive.

Author : Sunny Worel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517353599
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sammy and Sunny written by Sunny Worel and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931, a young woman was murdered in Phoenix, and the life she had lived was forgotten in a whirl of tabloid sensation. Hedvig "Sammy" Samuelson was seen by the public as simply one of two victims of the Winnie Ruth Judd Trunk Murders. Sammy's life as an adventurer, a schoolteacher, a shaper of young minds, went unremarked for decades. Then, seventy years after her death, her great-niece Sunny Worel set out to correct the record, to bring Sammy's life back into focus, to restore her dignity as a human being. By the time Sunny had done so, it was obvious that Sunny's spirit mirrored that of Sammy. Two women had reached out to each other across the gulf of time.

Author : J. Dwight Dobkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943247748
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders the Classic Edition written by J. Dwight Dobkins and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression in 1930's America there were two "trials of the century" that captured the attention of the world: the Lindbergh baby murder trial, and the Winnie Ruth Judd "Trunk Murders" trial. This e-book edition marks the 41st anniversary of release of the original Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders, the first book published about the sensational Judd murder and sanity trials

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671740078
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The trunk murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd written by Jana Bommersbach and published by . This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman who allegedly committed one of history's most heinous crimes reveals for the first time--through an investigative reporter--her role in the notorious 1931 "trunk murder." 50,000 first printing. TV tie-in. Tour.

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590580646
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trunk Murderess written by Jana Bommersbach and published by Poisoned Pen Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage. If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated the gallows" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times. If history is right, she only got her freedom at age 66-after serving more time than any other convicted murderer in the history of the nation--because Arizona was finally tired of punishing her. But if history is wrong, Winnie Ruth Judd's life was squandered in a horrible miscarriage of justice. Award-winning journalist Jana Bommersbach reinvestigates the twisted, bizarre murder case that has captivated the nation for decades. She not only uncovers evidence long hidden, but gets Winnie Ruth Judd to break her life-long silence and finally speak. In telling the story of this American crime legend, Bommersbach also tells the story of Phoenix, Arizona-a backwater town that would become a major American city-and the story of a unique moment in American history filled with social taboos.But most of all, she tells the story of a woman with the courage to survive.

Author : Mary Hanford Bruce
Publisher : Marjim Books
ISBN 13 : 9780962614866
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Sally's Voodoo Man written by Mary Hanford Bruce and published by Marjim Books. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What they're saying about this brilliant first novel: "bold exploration of a woman adrift in Africa, caught in the turmoil of her own defeated past and in the possibilities offered by her current swirls of chaos. It's a compelling story, told with authority and grace."Fred Leebron, Author of Out West, Six Figures, and In the Middle of All This "refreshing, well-told story written with a combination of force and sensitivity that captures the wondrous complexities of Africa, its people,and the precious vulnerability of the human experience."-- Freddie Lee Johnson III, Author of Bittersweet and A Man Finds His Way

Author : Mary Capps
Publisher : UCS PRESS
ISBN 13 : 0943247284
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Boss was the BTK Killer written by Mary Capps and published by UCS PRESS. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Mary Capps finally got to tell her side of the story in this riveting book. Dennis Rader put her through hell during the six-and-one-half years she worked under his supervision in the Compliance Department for the City of Park City, Kansas. She worked with him right up to the week he was arrested and exposed as the Bind Torture Kill serial killer.

Author : Megan Abbott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101051
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bury Me Deep written by Megan Abbott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award–winning author and “reigning crown princess of noir” (Booklist) Megan Abbott reignites in Bury Me Deep the hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex, shifting loyalties, and dark perversions of power that marked a true-life case born of Depression-era Phoenix, reimagined here as a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire. By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles’s Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade. Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar®-winning author Megan Abbott’s novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exuberant life of the girls, who supplement their scant income by entertaining the town’s most powerful men with wild parties. At one of these events, Marion meets—and falls hard for—the charming Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician on the rise, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision. A story born of Jazz Age decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me Deep—with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting loyalties—is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire and the glimmer of redemption.