Suspicious Baggage. True Crime Terror, #13

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.