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In 1960, a young Missouri housewife shot her husband in the back of the head while he slept and told police her two-year-old daughter had pulled the trigger. The insurance company believed her. The town of Independence believed her. For a while, so did the law. They were all wrong. Over the next sixty-five years, Sharon Kinne would be tried for murder three times without a final conviction, acquitted by a jury that asked for her autograph afterward, shoot a man dead in a Mexico City hotel room, escape from a Mexican federal prison during a blackout, and vanish into a small Canadian prairie town under an assumed name - while one of the longest outstanding murder warrants in United States history ran in her name and produced nothing. She died in her bed at eighty-two. The warrant was still active. It took an anonymous tip, two parallel investigations, and forensic genealogy to find a woman who had been dead for three years before anyone outside her immediate circle knew to look for her. The Sharon Kinne Murders reconstructs the complete documented record of a case that exposes what happens when charm, circumstance, and the failures of a legal system collide - and what it takes, sometimes, to finally close a file that should never have been opened as an accident in the first place.

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