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Winnie Ruth JUDD

 
 
 

 

Hedvig "Sammy" Samuelson with some male friends at the auto races, on July 5, 1931,
just months before she was murdered by her "friend", Winnie Ruth Judd.

 

 

Burton J. McKinnell, brother of Winnie Ruth Judd, waiting to testify at the coroner's
 inquest into the deaths of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes LeRoi.

 

 

Photo shows Mrs. Aida Zuniga, a patient at the La Vina Sanitarium, identifying the green dress
and black coat which Winnie Ruth Judd said she stole from her when she fled from the facility.
Mrs. Zuniga identified the clothes by a perfume bottle in a pocket. Also pictured are Detective
Lieut. W. J. Clark, at left, and Dr. W. A. Hodges, at center.

 

 

Hedvig Samuelson, a red-haired schoolteacher and Winnie Ruth Judd murder victim,
poses in front of a tree. Judd claimed to have shot her in self-defense.

 

 

First part of a letter from Burton J. McKinnell to his sister, Winnie Ruth Judd. He writes to her
"in the matter of attorneys" and advises her to contact Mr. Anderson, an "outstanding
criminal attorney in Phoenix I am told. He has never failed to free his man."

 

 

Photograph of the the two luggage tags that were attached to Winnie Ruth Judd's black trunks,
which carried her victims inside. Attached to each claim tag is a handwritten note which reads
"before delivery of this see Mr. Anderson personally." Arthur V. Anderson was the baggage
clerk who suspected that Winnie Ruth Judd and her brother were meat smugglers.

 

 

Hedvig Samuelson is shown here with an unidentified police officer. It was said that Samuelson's
and LeRoi's relationship with a wealthy man aroused jealousy in Winnie Ruth Judd, and may
have been the reason why Judd murdered the her two friends. Here, Samuelson smiles
at a fishing outing.

 

 

Hedvig Samuelson on a boat in Alaska. She was a schoolteacher in Alaska for a short time.

 

 

Los Angeles County Jail booking slip for Winnie Ruth Judd. Photo dated: October 30, 1931.

 

 

The jury of men, mostly middle aged farmers, who will decide the fate of Winnie Ruth Judd. Front row,
left to right, D. H. Patterson, locomotive engineer ; Oscar A. Jones, farmer ; A. J. McFee, watchmaker ;
Dan H. Kleinman, rancher ; Ed Gray, rancher. Second row, left to right, Joseph L. Standage,
businessman ; P. J. Lassen, farmer ; M. T. White, clerk ; H. Hilker, citrus grower ; Stewart V.
Thompson, salesman ; T. T. Kunze, farmer, Ed Landrigan, farmer, and William Lester, farmer.

 

 

 
 
 
 
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