The Trunk Murderess Whose Gruesome Crime Captivated a Nation

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May 18, 202632:01Society & Culture

26-year-old "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two best friends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she stuffed both of them into trunks and loaded them on a train to Los Angeles. What the press assumed was a...

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