Author : J. Dwight Dobkins
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1973
Category : True Crime
ISBN :
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 : J. Dwight Dobkins
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780943247748
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 : Sunny Worel
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781517353599
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 : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780425141021
After thirty-nine years in prison, Judd describes how, when her two best friends were shot, dismembered, stuffed into trunks, and checked as baggage, she was unjustly convicted for the crime and labeled "The Trunk Murderess." Reprint.
Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1615952667
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 : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781590580646
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
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780962614866
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 : Gary Solomon
Publisher : eBooks2go, Inc.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1618130412
Dr. Solomon’s first novel, A Ballad For Allison Porter, is a psychological thriller in which he includes addiction, abuse, death, abandonment, love, betrayal, and revenge, all leading to a gruesome murder. IN TWELVE HOURS ALLISON PORTER WILL BE EXECUTED FOR THE BRUTAL MURDERS OF HER NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS. Allison has not said a word to anyone since the day of her arrest. When news reporter, Kevin Pratt, is assigned to interview the taciturn Allison Porter, astonishingly, she opens up to him. Kevin leaves the interview determined to uncover the life of the real Allison Porter. Reaching Allison’s vacant home, Kevin finds his way to a dark closet in Allison’s childhood bedroom. Finding an old shoe box filled with miscellaneous keepsakes, Kevin picks through the pieces of memorabilia. As he touches each item in the box he flashes back to Allison’s past. Before the day is through, Allison Porter will be dead and Kevin Pratt will vow to keep her memory in, A Ballad For Allison Porter.
Author : Robert J. Hendricks
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
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 40th 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 : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Whitechapel Productions
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781892523990
From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.
