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Series: True Crime Terror, Book 13
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Richard O Jones
Published: Jan 29 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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