November 30, 1939 - Sharon Kinne
What distinguished Kinne's case across decades was less the violence itself than the sustained evasion that followed — acquittals, an escape from a Mexican prison, and aliases that carried her across borders and years. She moved through legal systems in two countries without being fully held by either, leaving behind an open warrant that outlasted most institutional memories of the crimes. The suspected killings, carried out in the early 1960s in domestic and intimate contexts, point to a calculated pattern rather than impulse.
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Sharon Kinne (born Sharon Elizabeth Hall; November 30, 1939 – January 21, 2022), also known as Jeanette Pugliese and La Pistolera in Mexico, and Diedra Grace "Dee" Glabus (later Diedra Ell) in Canada, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and prison escapee who was convicted in Mexico for one murder and is suspected of two others in the United States, one of which she was acquitted of at trial, during the 1960s. She was the subject of the longest outstanding arrest warrant for murder in the history of Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the longest outstanding felony warrants in U.S. history. In January 2025, it was announced that Kinne had lived in the small Canadian town of Taber, Alberta, from approximately 1973 until her death in 2022.
On March 19, 1960, Sharon's husband, James Kinne, was found shot in the head inside the home they shared in Independence, Missouri. Sharon claimed that the couple's two-year-old daughter, who had often been allowed to play with James' firearms, had accidentally shot him, and police were initially unable to disprove her story. Then, on May 27, the body of 23-year-old Patricia Jones, a local file clerk, was found by Sharon and a boyfriend in a secluded area. Investigators found that Jones had been the wife of another of Sharon's boyfriends, who had tried to break off their affair shortly before Jones disappeared. When Sharon admitted to having been the last person to speak with Jones, she was charged with her murder and, upon further investigation of his death, that of James.
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