Sharon Elizabeth Kinne , born in Sharon Elizabeth Hall , 30 November 1939), known in Mexico as La Pistolera , is an American serial killer whose mail subject the longest current arrest warrant for murder in the history of Kansas City, Missouri; and one of the longest longest accused letters in American history.
In 1960, Kinne was associated with two mysterious deaths. On March 19 that year, her husband, James Kinne, was found shot in the head with the couple's two-year-old daughter playing nearby. Sharon Kinne claims that the little girl, often allowed to play with her father's weapon, accidentally shot her, and the police initially could not argue with this theory. The case was closed as an accidental death and remained that way until the evening of May 27, when Patricia Jones's body was twenty-three years old, a local archivist, discovered by Kinne and a lover in a remote area. Investigations show that Jones has become the wife of another Kinne boyfriend, and Jones's husband has been trying to sever his relationship with Kinne just before Patricia Jones disappears. When Kinne confessed to being the last person to speak to Patricia Jones, she was charged with Jones's death and, after further investigation of her death, with the killing of James Kinne.
Kinne went to court for Patricia Jones's murder in June 1961 and was released. The trial in January 1962 on allegations of killing her husband ended with a life sentence and conviction in prison, but the verdict was canceled due to procedural irregularities. This case was brought to the second trial, which ended several days in the cancellation of the trial. The third court on the alleged killing of her husband ended with a hanging jury in July 1964. Kinne was released with ties after the third trial and then traveled to Mexico before the fourth trial scheduled to take place in October 1964.
In Mexico, Kinne and his traveling companion, Francis Puglise, were soon caught in another criminal case when Kinne, who claimed to have acted in self-defense, shot and killed a Mexican-born American citizen named Francisco Parades OrdoÃÆ'Â ± ez, whom he claimed attempted to rape him. Ordonez was shot in the back. A hotel employee where the shootings occurred, responding to gunshots, also injured but survived. Investigations against the shootings indicate that the OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez was shot with the same weapon that killed Patricia Jones. Kinne was sentenced in October 1965 to Mexican crimes and sentenced to ten years in prison, then extended to thirteen years after the review. Kinne escaped from a Mexican prison during a power outage in December 1969. Despite widespread hunting, his whereabouts are unknown.
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Early life and marriage
Sharon Elizabeth Hall was born on November 30, 1939, in Independence, Missouri. While in junior high school, Doris and Eugene Hall moved families to Washington, but by the time Sharon was fifteen they had returned to Missouri, where Sharon had studied at William Chrisman College. Sixteen-year-old Sharon met twenty-two-year-old James Kinne at a church function in the summer of 1956, and the couple were dating regularly until Kinne returned to Brigham Young University in the fall. Sharon, who is reportedly very interested in finding a partner with a prospect and who can take her away from Independence, immediately wrote a letter to Kinne at school telling her she was pregnant. Kinne took a leave of absence from his college and returned to Independence, where he married Sharon on October 18, 1956. The couple's wedding ties identified the sixteen-year-old Sharon as eighteen and a widow; although he later refused to respond to the statement, Sharon told the people at the time that she had been married when she lived in Washington, to a man who later died in a car accident. The new couple held a more formal second marriage the following year in the Salt Lake Temple, after Sharon completed the conversion process to Mormonism.
After their marriage, the couple returned to Provo, Utah, where Kinne had attended college, but at the end of the fall semester, Kinne once again postponed her studies. He and his new wife return to Independence, where both take jobs - Sharon, babysitting and caring for the store, and James as an electrical engineer at Bendix Aviation. Although Sharon claimed to have persecuted a child who had brought their marriage, she soon became pregnant again. In the fall of 1957, she gave birth to a girl they named Danna.
Sharon is reported as a free spender who expects better things of life, but with Kinne's salary they stay first in a rented house next to her parents and then in the ranch-style house they built in 17009 E. 26th Terrace in Independence. Kinne worked the night shift at Bendix, and his wife initially filled out his days by shopping and then with another man. By the time the couple had a second child, Troy, Sharon brought a casual affair with a friend from his school years, John Boldizs.
In early 1960, James Kinne contemplated the divorce, partly because of his wife's wasting habits and partly because he suspected that he was unfaithful to him. He spoke to his parents about the possibility of divorce on March 18, 1960, telling them that Sharon had agreed to a divorce if he allowed her to keep the couple's house and daughter and pay him $ 1,000, but the old Kinnes, the obedient. Mormon, urges James to remain in his marriage. Sharon also thinks about the way out of marriage; according to John Boldizs, he once offered him $ 1,000 to kill her husband or find someone who would, although he later stated that he might have been joking.
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1960 death
James Kinne
According to Sharon Kinne, around 5:30 am. on the night of March 19 he heard a gunshot from the direction of the bedroom where her husband was sleeping. Entering the room, she found Danna two and a half years old in bed next to her father. Danna was holding one of James's pistols, a caliber targeted Hi-Standard caliber target.22, and James was bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Kinne called the police, but James Kinne was dead by the time the ambulance took him to the hospital.
The police were unable to recover the fingerprints from the grip of an oiled pistol, and the paraffin test for the remainder of the shot was not done on Danna or Sharon Kinne. Some people, including family and neighbors, told police that James often let Danna play with his weapon, and in a test by investigative officers, Danna was shown to be able to pull the trigger on a weapon that suited the one who had killed his father. With no evidence to the contrary, the investigators decided that this case was an unintentional murder. The pistol that killed James Kinne was taken into police custody and never returned to the widow, despite attempts to reclaim him; He then had a male friend who secretly bought him a.22 caliber automatic. When his friend told him that he had registered the gun on his behalf, he requested that he re-register with a name other than his own.
With his death investigation closed, James Kinne is buried and his wife collects his life insurance policy, worth about $ 29,000 ($ 230,000 today).
Patricia Jones
Patricia Jones was born Patricia Clements, one of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clements from St. Joseph, Missouri. After graduating from local high school, she married Walter T. Jones, Jr., her high school lover. Walter Jones enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after their marriage, and the couple moved to the west coast while Jones served. After leaving the military, they returned to the midwest and settled in Independence with their two children. In 1960, almost five years after her marriage, Patricia worked as an archivist for the Internal Revenue Service, while her husband sold the car.
Despite her marriage and her children, Walter Jones is reported to have a wandering eye. On April 18, she met Sharon Kinne when she bought Ford Thunderbird from her dealer using some insurance payments from her husband's death, and the two began to cheat soon after. Kinne sees him as a prospect for a second husband, but Jones is not interested in leaving his wife despite a relationship of rockiness. When he refused to travel to Washington with him in May, Kinne was reluctant to go with his older sister instead. Although the couple reunited on May 25, shortly after Kinne returned to Missouri, the relationship was quickly fixed on the rocks when Kinne told Jones that she was pregnant and she was the father of her baby. Jones, instead of responding to what Kinne expects as a deal to divorce his wife, ends his affair.
According to Kinne's later testimony, on the afternoon of May 26 she contacted Patricia Jones at Jones's office and told him that Walter Jones had an affair with Kinne's sister. Kinne then met with Patricia Jones that night to discuss the matter further before escorting her to Jones's home.
Patricia Jones never made it to her home that night, according to her husband. Walter Jones filed a missing person report to the police the next day and started calling people he thought might have seen his wife. She gets a clue when she talks to friends Patricia who works to work with her. Her friends told Jones that Patricia had reportedly received a phone call that day from an anonymous woman who wanted to meet her. He had asked the carpool driver to drop him off the corner in Independence, which he had done. The carpool dwellers have seen a woman waiting for Jones in another car at the store but not recognizing her. They keep giving descriptions of unknown women to Jones.
Suspicious with the identity of an unknown woman based on the carpooler's general description, Walter Jones telephoned Sharon Kinne and asked if she had seen or spoken to his wife. Kinne allowed her that, indeed, to see Patricia that day; she had met him to tell him about Walter's affair. According to Kinne, the last time she saw Patricia where she dropped her off near the Jones house, talking to an unknown man in Ford in 1957 who was green. Based on Kinne's confession over the phone, Walter Jones met Friday night and insisted he give him more details about where his wife was; he then confessed to go so far as to hold the key to his throat with threats. Kinne's response was, after leaving Jones, to call John Boldizs and ask him to help him find Patricia Jones. Shortly before midnight, and within hours of Kinne's conversation with Walter Jones, he and Boldizs had found the body of a woman in a remote area about a mile beyond Independence. According to Boldizs, he was the one who suggested searching the area where they found the body; it is a place that they often visit on the previous date.
The body, dressed in a black sweater and yellow skirt, was immediately identified as the missing Patricia Jones. Jones has been hit with four shots from a.22 caliber pistol. Although the fatal wound is a shot onto Jones's head, enters near his mouth on the upward trajectory, he also has one through and through a bullet wound to his stomach and two gunshot wounds penetrate into his shoulder on a downward trajectory through his body. The powder burned on the hemline of her skirt, which had been lifted to her waist, indicating that the gun had been fired from close range at least once. Initial reports and investigations put Jones's death time around 9 pm. on May 27th.
She was buried on May 31st.
Arrests and investigations
Investigators soon began to question Sharon Kinne, James Boldizs, and Walter Jones. All three were questioned on May 28th. Jones and Boldizs both gave a written statement claiming to have dated Sharon Kinne and both agreed to test the lie; Kinne gave a verbal statement to the police but refused to sign a written or take a lie test. Kinne was questioned again on the morning of May 30, and Boldizs on May 31st. Polygraphs scheduled for the two men were conducted on June 1, and the two men were considered correct in their statements. Kinne's brother, Eugene, was also questioned on May 31, but declined to answer questions.
While the police questioned potential suspects and witnesses, other investigators focused on crime scene processing. Repeated attempts were made to find bullets that had passed Jones's body and murder weapons, including filtering dirt at crime scene for bullets and deployment of Scout troops to search for weapons. The.22 caliber rifle was eventually found buried in the ground where Jones's body was found, providing evidence that at least some of his injuries had been detained where his body was found. Although investigators go a long way to dragging the bottom of the nearest water bodies, the gun that shot Jones - considered a caliber pistol.22 - could not be found. The building near where Jones' body was found was also looking for blood and gunfire, according to police theory that Jones had been attacked elsewhere and then transported out. A "white powder substance" found in Jones's hair was originally believed to be a trace of evidence from several other crime scene areas - an idea that sparked a nearby building search - but was later determined to be a flying egg.
Kinne was arrested at her home for murder around 11 pm. on May 31, the same night as Patricia Jones's funeral. On the same day, Sheriff Jackson County asked prosecutors to consider the second murder charge, this one on the death of James Kinne. Kinne's lawyers, Alex Peebles and Martha Sperry Hickman, filed a habeas corpus order to court the next morning, and the trial that afternoon resulted in his release on the $ 20,000 bond while he awaits the preliminary hearing which was originally scheduled for June 16.
The police were able to set aside a.22 caliber pistol that had killed Kinne's husband as a murder weapon in Jones's death; The gun was still owned by the sheriff's office. However, a man who worked with Kinne claimed to have purchased a silver caliber pistol.22 on his application in early May. The police could not find the weapons in question when they searched the Kinne house, although they found an empty box that they believed had once held a weapon. Kinne initially claimed to the investigator that he had lost a gun on his way to Washington, then declared that the weapon had been lost.
Walter Jones was arrested on June 2 as a material witness against the case and released on the same day with $ 2,000.
The initial autopsy carried out on Patricia Jones was criticized by police and prosecutors, who felt that bullet recovery and stomach testing should have been done. Dr. Hugh Owens, who had performed an autopsy, argued that he had found one of three suspected bullets in the body, and that was because the body had been "prepared" by an officer before the autopsy, every chemical test on the bowels. will be worthless. Owens added when asked that he did not see any food seen in the stomach during an autopsy. Patricia Jones's body was dug up on June 17 to collect bullets left on the original autopsy, as well as to collect samples of tissue and stomach contents.
The Kinne prosecution on July 11 resulted in a rejection of collateral, but the Kansas City Court of Appeals hit the days in power then based on the prosecutor's reliance on indirect evidence. Kinne was released at $ 24,000 (worth $ 188,976 in 2013 dollars) bonds on July 18.
After a delay in the trial due to her advanced pregnancy, Kinne gave birth to a daughter whom she named Marla Christine on January 16, 1961.
Trials for the 1960 murders
Trials in the death of Patricia Jones (1961)
Although accused of murdering Patricia Jones and James Kinne, Sharon Kinne was tried separately for two crimes. His trial for Patricia Jones's murder began in mid-June 1961, with jury selection beginning on or about June 13 and the trial begins a few days later with all male jurors.
Opening arguments by prosecutors and defenses regulate cases based on the time of death recognized. Basing their affirmation on the testimony given by the pathologist that Jones had died about six hours after he had lunch on May 26, the prosecutor claimed that Jones had died more than 24 hours before Kinne and Boldizs found his body; defense lawyers argue that death is more likely to occur six to eight hours earlier. Attorney J. Arnott Hill cited testimony by Detective Chief Lieutenant Harry Nesbitt and husband Patricia Jones, Walter, as evidence of Kinne's motives for crime: the detective reminded Kinne's assertion that she feared Jones away from him despite the financial support she offered him, and Jones testified that Kinne had told him that she was pregnant by him and he then tried to end the relationship.
The prosecution can not be sure that Kinne has or ever possessed a weapon that killed Jones, even though the Kinne gun that was known and who fired a bullet that killed Jones was a caliber weapon.22. Roy Thrush, the man who sold the gun to Kinne's co-workers, had led the police to a tree containing what he claimed to be the bullet he had fired from the gun; However, when the bullet was extracted from the trunk of the tree, the test showed that the extracted bullet could not be identified because it came from a weapon that killed Jones.
The prosecutor rested his case on June 21 after calling 27 witnesses. The Kinne defense, which took less than two days and involved fourteen witnesses other than Kinne - who did not testify - focused on denying State claims and motives, arguing that Kinne had no reason to kill Jones and that.22 caliber pistols allegedly belonging to him has not been proven as a murder weapon.
After a little over an hour and a half of deliberation, the jury, saying "too many gaps" was left in the prosecution case, found Kinne innocent. Immediately after the delivery of the verdict, juror Ogden Stephens asked Kinne for his autograph, which he had given him. Kinne was returned to prison on the same day to await trial for her husband's murder.
The first attempt in the death of James Kinne (1962)
Although he was released in the murder of Patricia Jones, Kinne remained under charges for the murder of her husband, James Kinne. When the jury selection began on 8 January 1962, District Attorney J. Arnott Hill noted that he did not intend to pursue the death penalty in this case.
Cases of prosecution mostly rely on their opinion that Kinne is very interested to see her husband expelled from accusations that she is willing to pay for her murder, supported by the testimony of grand jury John Boldizs. Boldizs, although nominally a witness to the prosecution, weakened his testimony in the pulpit during the trial by claiming that Kinne's bid to pay him $ 1,000 in return for James Kinne's killing could have been a joke, and Hill was forced to attack the witness's own credibility.. Testimony of further prosecution alleging that the Kinne marriage was on the verge of dissolution at the death of James Kinne, that the adultery of Sharon Kinne has been the cause of this, and that Sharon Kinne has learned that she will collect her $ 29,000 husband in life insurance policy only if she is still his wife.
The defense, led by lawyers Martha Hickman and James Patrick Quinn, focuses on the quality of prosecutorial evidence, noting that previous police investigations have determined the death of James Kinne to be "clearly unintentional" and that the jury is obliged to assume innocence on the Accused section no matter how unpleasant they find their moral character. The defense also attacked the reliability of John Boldizs' testimony, calling him a "bad mixed child" who would "sign anything". Kinne's lawyer also testified from the witnesses who supported the theory that Danna Kinne had shot her father, including the assertion that weapons had often been abandoned within Danna's reach in the family home, that Danna was able to pull the trigger on toy guns more loudly. an interesting trigger rather than the weapon that caused Kinne's death, and that Danna was often observed to pretend to fire weapons in the game.
The trial ended in confidence on January 11 after five and a half hours of deliberation. In April of the same year, he was formally sentenced to life in prison. He began serving his sentence at Missouri Reformatory for Women.
Then an interview with the jury of the trial revealed that "three or four ballots" had been taken before the "guilty" verdict was reached, beginning with the jury with a solid divide and move progressively toward unanimity for faith. A jury told Kansas City Star that Kinne's morals were not considered by the jury, and that he thought no jury knew that Kinne had ever been tried for Patricia Jones's murder.
Regardless of the verdict, the James Kinne family continues to trust the best of their daughter-in-law, informing journalists on the day of the verdict, "[W] e can not find it in our hearts to say anything bad about him" and "We still do not felt that he was killing. " Kinne himself told reporters that he felt the verdict was a mistake, and that he regretted his previous enthusiasm for having a woman on the jury.
The following week, Kinne's lawyer requested that she be released with a bond, backed by a community petition signed by 132 innocent supporters. The motion was rejected on the basis of first-degree murder that was not a stray violation; Chief Judge Tom J. Stubbs also counseled the Kinne lawyers that he felt their involvement in such a petition at a time when the movement for bonds was "highly inappropriate". The next defense movement called for Kinne's conviction to be emptied because the jury has passed its verdict on the basis of "conjecture and speculation" rather than "substantial evidence". The motion also included a series of procedural errors alleged by Kinne's advisers that occurred before and during the trial, including a jury taking "incomplete" notes, lawyers for both sides in cases that have disputed John Boldizs' testimony, and a number of false potentials. the jury is reserved for selection. The motion was rejected by Judge Stubbs in April 1962, but appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri, which in March 1963 reversed Kinne's conviction and ordered a new court on the basis of Kinne's defenses that had been denied adequate peremptory challenges during the jury election in his trial. Kinne denied the opportunity for bail in May 1963, but the decision was canceled in July and Kinne was released on $ 25,000 of bonds, posted by her brother. The state's request that the Missouri Supreme Court reconsider its position on Kinne's conviction was granted, but in October 1963 that the trial produced further excuses found for a new trial, this time on the grounds that prosecutors had been allowed to cross. examine the prosecution witness. The second request for a re-verdict over the validity of Kinne's conviction was rejected by the Missouri Supreme Court. Kinne and her children moved with her mother and waited for the start of her new trial. Second attempt on the death of James Kinne (1964)
Kinne's second experiment for the killing of James Kinne began on March 23, 1964. When the jury election took place on that day, the public was initially banned from the trial, but the restrictions were soon loosened and the media allowed into the courtroom. A very long jury selection process made the first day of the trial last fourteen hours, starting at 9 am and did not end until almost midnight on the same day; Chief Judge Paul Carver noted that due to the well-known case, he was forced to choose between alienating the entire jury overnight and forcing the court into a long day. The jury finally, everyone, was immediately exiled, but a few days later, a lie was announced after it was learned that a lawyer attorney Lawrence Gepford had been detained by one of the jurors.
The third attempt in the death of James Kinne (1964)
Kinne's third trial for the killing of James Kinne, originally scheduled to begin in early June 1964, begins on June 29. Assistant prosecutor Donald L. Mason declared at the jury's election that he intended to die-qualify the jury, a process in which the prosecutor firmly challenged any jury who automatically opposed the death penalty, and the jury election took more than twelve hours in a single day. John Boldizs's testimony in the trial remains contradictory as to whether he believes the Kinne bid has been seriously destined, but he added this time that after the death of James Kinne, Sharon Kinne has requested that Boldizs not inform the authorities of a $ 1,000 bid for her husband's death. a new witness, a Kinne female friend, testified that Kinne had joked that she should "get rid of an [old woman] like [Kinne] doing", but cross-examination of defense highlights the inconsistency between this testimony and similar things. citing women offered at previous deposition. For the first time in his trial, Kinne took a stand on the final day of the trial to issue a categorical rejection of all charges.
The all-male jury had a seven to five dead end to agree to the release in this trial, which resulted in the second trial.
Death of Francisco Paredes OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez
The fourth court in the death of James Kinne is scheduled for October 1964; However, in September 1964, Kinne, still free in his 25,000-dollar ties, traveled to Mexico with a suspected lover, Francis Samuel Puglise left his sons with James Kinne's father and traveled as Pugliese's wife by the name of Jeanette Pugliese. The couple later said that they came to Mexico to get married. Under the legal provisions of his guarantees, Kinne was allowed to leave the country, but his contract with the company that recorded his bonds forbade him to leave Missouri without the express written permission of the company agent. After crossing the border, the couple signed up at a local hotel, Hotel Gin, again as husband and wife. Kinne, said that he felt unsafe in a foreign country, bought a gun - meaning that the couple now has a lot of weapons, after carrying one or two of them from the United States.
On the night of September 18, 1964, Kinne left the hotel without Pugliese, either to earn money because the couple was running out of money or getting the medicine he needed. Kinne met Francisco Parades OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez, a Mexican-born American citizen, in a bar that night and accompanied him back to his room at Hotel La Vada. According to Kinne's account, he goes with OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez to see the photos he offers to show him, but he immediately starts making sexual advances towards him and he is forced to fire his weapons at him in an attempt to protect himself. Kinne then declares that he did not intend to kill or injure the Order Æ' ez, and only intends to frighten him, but the bullet hit his chest and killed him. Responding to the sound of gunfire, hotel employee Enrique Martinez Rueda entered the room. Kinne fired again and hit Rueda's shoulder. Wounded, Rueda escapes from the room, locks Kinne inside, and calls the police.
The police, rejecting Kinne's story, theorizes that he went out that night with the intention of robbing, and has chosen OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez as his victim. When he refused an order to give him the money, the police believed, Kinne had shot him.
Catching, investigating and testing
The police who responded to Hotel La Vada arrested Kinne on murder charges and attacks with deadly weapons. Kinne argues that he did not intend to harm the Order Æ' ez, only to scare him, and that he had fired his gun into Rueda because he feared that he too had come to attack him. Police searched the Kinne wallet, found guns and fifty bullets, and then the couple's room at Hotel Gin, where they found two more weapons and another shell. The authorities took Francis Pugliese into custody there, initially detaining him without charge and then filing a lawsuit entering the country illegally and carrying weapons without permission. The gun found in the couple's night spaces later proved through ballistics to be the same weapon that killed Patricia Jones in 1960, but because Kinne had been released from the crime, she could not be prosecuted anymore because it was based on new evidence.
Pugliese was held at Palacio de Lecumberri, while Kinne was originally placed in a women's prison before being transferred to Lecumberri for his trial.
The couple were indicted on September 26 and detained for trial. In October, Kinne's lawyer, Higinio Lara, filed a recurso de amparo, similar to a habeas corpus warrant, affirming that Mexico had infringed on Kinne's constitutional right by holding him for a shooting in self-defense. The request was rejected and Kinne and Pugliese were tried in the summer of 1965. Pugliese, who was released from charges against him, was deported to the United States, but Kinne was convicted on October 18 of the assassination of OrdoÃÆ'Â ± ez. Despite rumors that he would receive probation and deportation like Pugliese, Kinne was even sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime; when he was formally notified of the punishment the next day, he confirmed that he would appeal his conviction. Kinne is returned to the women's prison to serve her sentence. There, he was nicknamed "La Pistolera" ("shooter"), a nickname that was later adopted by the Mexican press.
Kinne's appeal, instead of canceling the sentence, extends it. A high court of three people who heard his case dismissed one aspect of his conviction - the charge of robbery - but upheld the conviction of murder and increased his sentence from ten to thirteen years, saying his sentence was too soft.
Escape
On December 7, 1969, Kinne was not present for the routine at 5 pm. was absent in Ixtapalapan prison where he served his sentence, but his absence was not officially recorded until he also failed to appear on the second call of the night. The news of his departure was not reported to Mexico City police until 2 am the next day. A hunt was then set up, initially focusing on the northern states of Mexico because of the authorities' belief that Kinne might have been headed for the last known place of an inmate to whom he had grown close when they were in a joint prison, but also spanning the country. transportation hubs all over the world and eventually spun back into Mexico City area. The American authorities, including the FBI, were also informed of Mexican authorities' confidence that Kinne may have sought to return to his country, but the FBI notes that it is unlikely to have jurisdiction in this case.
The initial police speculation was that Kinne had bribed the guard to look the other way as he escaped from unusual blackouts had been reported in prison at night and at the time of his escape, and the investigation showed that a door should be locked because it was left without guarantees - but further questions about prison guards and administration show that oversight in prison is generally negligent and that it is managed by fewer guards than it should be. News reports at the time reported many theories about Kinne's escape, including that he had bribed the prison guard, that he might have sought the help of a girlfriend allegedly a Mexico City policeman, that Kinne's mother had been involved in a runaway plan, that a former secret service agent Mexico has helped in its escape, and that Kinne may have disguised herself as a man to influence her escape. A more modern theory speculates that the Parade Francisco OrdoÃÆ' Â ± ez family has helped escape and then killed him.
The intensive chase for Kinne was short-lived, however; on December 18, the Mexican secret service and the Mexico City district attorney's office reported that they were no longer involved in finding escaped prisoners, while federal prosecutors reported that the responsibility for the hunt belonged to the city district prosecutor's office. Investigators speculated that Kinne had crossing the border from Mexico to Guatemala, robbing Mexico's hunting destination, but noting that Kinne was fluent in Spanish after many years in a Mexican prison, and therefore he could "get [ting] along pretty well." "in almost all of the Spanish-speaking regions of the world.Although vowing to keep the case open and their investigations run until Kinne is again detained, by the end of December 1969, authorities were forced to admit they had run out of investigative clues to pursue.
Over forty years after his flight, Kinne remains free, his whereabouts and destiny are ultimately unknown.
Current status
Kinne's capture and conviction in Mexico has implications for his legal status in Missouri. Because he was detained in Mexico on October 26, 1964 - the date scheduled for his fourth trial in the murder of her husband - the $ 25,000 Kinne bond was lifted on that date. Although the United Bond Insurance Company, which has booked the bond, argues that the irregularities of the document made issuing Kinne's asset illegal, the court ordered the company to cancel the bond. Kinne reportedly worried about the monetary implications of this foreclosure: "I can always use the money," said the Altus Times-Democrats quoting him. "I did not mean to spend my whole life in jail."
Supersedeas bonds worth $ 30,000 were issued in August 1965 because the United Bond Insurance Company continued to disputed Kinne's original $ 25,000 bond payment. Supersedeas bonds allowed the company to postpone the $ 25,000 bond payment until a verdict on the matter was handed down by the Missouri Supreme Court, but when the court upheld the bond fine, $ 25,000 was paid to Missouri State in October 1965. The United Bond Insurance Company then filed a lawsuit against the Kinne family to recover the guarantee fees, attorney fees, and find Kinne after escaping.
Shortly before the scheduled Missouri scheduled date, Kinne advisor in Missouri filed a motion to change the fourth courtroom ultimately in the death of James Kinne, claiming that the news coverage of the Kinne cases has greatly hurt the Jackson County people against him that it would be impossible for him to get a fair trial there.
When Kinne failed to show up for the killing of her husband, a warrant was issued for her arrest in October 1964. It was still circulating 53 years later - making it the oldest known murder warrant in Kansas City. Kinne's status in the Mexican system also remained remarkable, although authorities have shown that by the time he escaped, jailbreaks were not a crime under Mexican law; if he is caught back there, he will only serve the rest of his extraordinary punishment.
Psychology and motivation
In the segment of the Deadly Discovery Investigation series Deadly Women which includes the Kinne case, the episode titled "Born Bad", James Hays, author I am just a Regular Girl: The Story of Sharon Kinne speculates that Kinne did his first murder to earn money, hoping to unfreeze James Kinne's life insurance policy, and that he began to get pleasure from murder at the time. Former FBI profiler Candice DeLong supports this statement with her theory that Kinne is a sociopath, lacks regret and empathy, and therefore there is no compromise about killing to get what she wants - be it life insurance, marriage with her boyfriend, or cash. This idea was echoed by several people who were involved in Kinne's prosecution, who felt that he was a "psychopath" and born evil. and that "the solution to the problem is killing someone". Even those who believe in his faults, however, note that Kinne has a certain appeal, describing it as "somewhat interesting" and admitting that they grew to love it. The Mammoth Book of True Crime describes it as a relative scarcity, a "beautiful" criminal.
In I'm Just a Regular Girl: The Story of Sharon Kinne , Hays also confirmed that Kinne was inspired to kill her husband by a police magazine she read that tells the story of Lillian Chastain, a Virginia woman who shot her husband during a fight and blame shots on the couple's two-year-old daughter. The charge against Chastain was filed in February 1960, a few weeks before James Kinne's death.
In media
This case is the subject of the Discovery Investigation series A Crime to Remember episode "Luck Be a Lady" (Season 4 Episode 2, 2016).
See also
- List of people who mysteriously disappear
Note
References
Bibliography
- Hays, James C. (1997). "I'm just an Ordinary Girl": The story of Sharon Kinne . Publishing Leathers. ISBN: 1890622109.
- All articles quoted from Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times are accessed via The Sharon Kinne Murder Case , a special collection of Kansas City Public Library
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