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Phoenix, 1931. Two women murdered. Two trunks shipped to Los Angeles. One suspect: a frail, 105-pound tuberculosis patient named Winnie Ruth Judd. The newspapers called her the ""Tiger Woman"" and the ""Trunk Murderess."" They sent her to hang. But the man who helped her that night-wealthy lumberman ""Happy Jack"" Halloran-walked free, his name barely whispered in court. What followed defied belief: a death sentence commuted to madness, seven escapes from the asylum, six years living as a California governess named ""Marian Lane,"" and a pardon signed by the same man who once dramatized her trial on the radio. She served longer than any murderer in American history. She died with the truth still locked inside her. This is the story the headlines never told-of a woman buried beneath her own legend, and the powerful man who let her take the fall alone.

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About Richard O Jones After 25 years writing the first draft of history as a writer and editor for his hometown newspaper, the Hamilton Journal-News, Richard O Jones left the grind of daily journalism in the fall of 2013 for a life of true crime. He is the author of two books on the History Press imprint, Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal (October, 2014) and The First Celebrity Serial Killer: Confessions of the Strangler Alfred Knapp (May, 2015). In 2016, he began a twice-weekly podcast ""True Crime Historian"" (www.truecrimehistorian.com) where he tells stories of the scoundrels, scandals and scourges of the past through newspaper accounts in the golden age of yellow journalism. He created the Two-Dollar Terror series of novella-length ebooks. Mr. Jones, a creative writing graduate of Miami University, Ohio, spent most of his career as an arts journalist and has won numerous awards for his reviews and profiles. In 2004, he was named a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre and Musical Theatre program at the Annenberg School of Journalism. The Ohio Associated Press named him Feature Writer of the Year in 2011. Since leaving the newspaper world, Mr. Jones has become an active member of his local history community as a board member of the Butler County Historical Society, a member of the History Speakers Bureau and a regular presenter at Miami University in a program titled ""Yesterday's News."" The Michael J. Colligan History Project of Miami University presented Mr. Jones with a Special Recognition for Contributions to Public History for his coverage of the Centennial Commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913. Photo by Sandra M. Orlett

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