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Hey, weirdos. I'm Ash.
And I'm Alayna. And this is Morbid.
it's morbid i always have to repeat it i don't know why it's a weird routine that i do it's entirely possible that i do that too but i don't know i think we both do it sometimes i'm a self aware queen and other times i'm a delulu queen we live in a grand yeah i'm usually i'm pretty pretty self -aware of my annoying traits i think i'm not gonna change them but i'm aware that's the most capricorn shake you've ever said i know i'm annoying but fuck you yeah that's i know i'm annoying but deal with it that's straight up how i feel unapologetic i love it yeah i'm very self -aware but like there's no way
i'm changing good for you that you know what i'll grow but I won't change good that's but like in growth good growth there is change nah not in my growth no she's she's something everybody she's a girly she's a girly she's out here I am out here she's out here in these streets not changing but growing question mark we don't understand it I don't but you know what I don't claim her the girlies who get it get it you know what i do claim my fellow capricorns get it we grow we do not change i honestly i really feel as though you're we were just talking about this i feel like you're becoming more and more
of a virgo with each passing day i can i definitely have virgo i mean it's in my big three is well that's what i'm saying because you're a virgo rising and i heard um that like the older you get like the more you go through life you kind of morph more into your rising sign mine is Sagittarius I feel that and I like Sagittarius so like I'm morphed into a Sagittarius yeah Sagittarius I feel like maybe they like don't give as much as of a fuck about things as Gemini's do I hope maybe I just hope I think of mine it's just a hope maybe they hope not to maybe I don't know well that was astrology without
I just you were just like but you're becoming a Virgo yeah you are I just I feel it because Dave is a Virgo and I'm noticing a lot lot of attributes of Dave that you are yeah Dave and I are very have found each other realizing that we're very alike you are yeah there's moments where we're just like huh well and Drew is a Capricorn and like he he definitely possesses like some Capricorn qualities for sure he's a January Capricorn he's a January Capricorn which is different but he's also a Taurus rising and I was saying to him that lately I feel like he comes off way more Taurus but they And can I
also say that you come off to other people like your rising sign is what you present to other people, I'm pretty sure.
So I present to Virgo.
Yeah, and that makes sense.
I feel like Virgos are misunderstood and sometimes I feel like you're misunderstood.
Yeah. Yeah. Capricorns are too.
Yeah, definitely. We're both in this.
Yeah, and then you got Cancer in there, which just like fucks it all up.
Which is really wild.
Yeah, your big signs are chaotic.
They're scary. Mine are super fucking chaotic too.
Mine are just scary.
yeah it's interesting that we both have water moons i just realized that because i'm a pisces moon which i don't like to claim out loud but you know you know i have actually never mind i'm not going to say that anyways let's get into the story yeah let's talk now that we've all discussed our risings and big threes yeah i hope you guys yelled yours out at us yeah i hope you did i heard that's what i hope for us oh my god when we go through these little weird or like uh intros that we just to start talking about shit that you guys are just yelling stuff back i hope so it feels that way yeah i feel
like my friends are out there in there in their cars and they're not too long so i feel like you can hang in and like yell back at us for a minute and then we're like all right yeah all right getting back on track so yeah let's get back on track let's get back on track this is sharon kinney aka la pistolera i can't say it in american accent i just have to say it but that's the case that we're covering we're in part two of that and in part one we covered you know Sharon's I would call a failed marriage her first husband I would also call that a failed marriage yeah his untimely and wild wildly
wildly suspicious death yes we covered her affair with a married man named Walter and then we found out that Walter's wife Patricia had been murdered and Sharon had not only been the one to find her but was also the last person to be seen with her the very day that she went missing and then finally at the end of part one Sharon was arrested right after Patricia's funeral so there's that I've said it like 42 times but I am just going to say it one more time trial heavy in the beginning of this one stick with me I'm sticking I'm here I'm glad you are I'm not going anywhere required by contract to be
here so while that means a lot to me that you're not going anywhere yeah it's also just the law yeah I mean but if you're not contractually obligated to be here I appreciate you and I love you I love that Yeah.
We're all in this together.
That's good. We're just not all under the same contracts.
No. But the next morning, June 1st, after, you know, she was arrested, Sharon appeared before Magistrate J .J.
Brady in an independence courtroom where she was formally arraigned with the first -degree murder of Patricia Jones, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 16th.
In the meantime, she was held on $20 ,000 bond, which friends and relatives actually wasted no time pulling together and she was released that very afternoon what i feel like even that speaks to like the manipulation she was able to conjure yeah like friends and relatives were like yeah i know that two people have been mysteriously shot or murdered around you lately in a span of two months but like i don't think you have anything to do with it wow yeah wow yeah yeah Yeah, she's a high -level manipulator.
She's a wily one. That's what we've been discovering.
But then after the arraignment for Patricia's murder, the sheriff's department actually asked District Attorney William Collette to file charges against Sharon for the murder of her husband.
There you go. I was waiting for that.
He did that later that afternoon.
But the biggest issue for the prosecutor's office was the lack of forensic evidence connecting Sharon to both murders.
there was not a lot of forensic evidence and remember it's the 60s so they didn't have like a shit ton that they could do like there wasn't any dna there was dna to test but there weren't any tests yet to figure it out very true so they knew she was the last person to be seen with patricia jones and she had been uncooperative from the start of the investigation but with the fourth bullet or the 20 or excuse me without the fourth bullet or the 22 caliber pistol used in the shooting prosecutors knew that getting a conviction would be an uphill battle but they were ready to climb uphill investigators
citizen volunteers and even a troop of boy scouts had scoured the crime scene with metal detectors like i mentioned in part one but still they hadn't found any evidence but then finally on june 2nd a sergeant with the sheriff's office located the fourth slug lodged about six inches into the ground directly under where patricia's body had had been found oh so it was lodged in there it was lodged into the earth so then you wonder i mean i don't know if i'm being like super no you go for it you theorize because we were saying how we like they believed initially that she was brought there and probably
dumped because of the lack of blood and then they found that barn so my thought process here is because that barn kind of like disappeared you said it does feel like it like it kind of does disappear because they've they theorized that maybe she was shot there because there was some evidence that like some something thing was shot there yeah or somebody shot there but the cause of death was the shot to the head yes so i'm wondering if all that happened somewhere else she was dumped there and they did one more shot to the stomach to try to confuse the whole thing maybe and that's why there's no blood because she
had already died from the blood from the shot to the head so it's not flowing that's actually brilliant that's not some investigator type shit that's just me over Over here being an investigator.
Yeah. You know. That makes a lot of sense.
What are you writing, like a novel about murder or something?
No. No. No, never. Yeah, I didn't even think of that.
Could have been it?
That definitely could have been it.
It's pretty shady. Because they never really account for the lack of blood at the scene.
Yeah, so maybe that's, it could be why.
Yeah. It's just like an overkill kind of thing to confuse things.
Or just like an angry overkill.
Yeah, like one more.
You know, one more.
Mm -hmm, you're right.
but anyway finding that missing slug was huge yeah huge win regardless but it was immediately followed by a pretty big blow once they realized that the coroner had sent patricia's body to the mortuary with the two remaining slugs still in the body which had then been buried buddy so not this so yeah they he sent her body off to the mortuary and she had already been buried with those slugs still in her.
Great. A spokesperson for the sheriff's office told reporters, we feel there was a negligence at the time of the autopsy.
You feel that? They did feel that.
I also feel that. I feel that from, you know, decades after.
Me too. I still feel that.
I still feel it in my bones.
And according to the sheriff, investigators had made the explicit request for the coroner to hold the body for additional testing and removal of the remaining slugs.
But the coroner disregarded the request, sent patricia's body to the mortuary where she was prepared for for burial destroying what could have been vital evidence in this case why the fuck she's a murder victim why are you sending her off with evidence inside of her body it gets worse the more investigators dug into patricia's case the worse things looked for process for the prosecution not only had legit evidence been buried with the body but the embalming process actually occurred before the coroner performed the autopsy shut the fuck up they embalmed the body first before he did the autopsy
what colette told the press it's just all botched up how badly this series mistake series of mistakes will hurt us will have to be determined later this is not the first case they messed up for us and it probably won't be the last like how do you even how and also if this is not the first first case that they've messed up for you and you're pretty confident it's not going to be the last uh we think it's time to hire a new coroner yeah i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that coroner is not good at their job like what also i wonder if this where where did this take place independence missouri
i wonder if this is a this is one of those cases against coroners like the against like a voted in coroners because it's like this could be a case where this guy had no fucking business doing any of this shit it kind of sounds like i'm gonna look this shit up go for it because it does sound like it according to the prosecutor's office the coroner even tried to cover up his mistakes at multiple points in the investigation he told detectives this is wild you're going to you're gonna i don't even know what you're gonna do but you're gonna lose your mind at this oh no he told detectives finding the slugs
in the body would be like looking for a a needle in a haystack literally shut the fuck up what like you have literal entrance wounds that's the thing like slugs don't appear in a body there's a fucking exit wound that you can follow pretty quickly looking for a needle in a haystack looking for a needle in a haystack are you kidding me like what are you saying is this guy all right who is this man no because i'm i'm not done yet this is what's really gonna send you he also told them that he did not want to conduct tests on the stomach contents because it would be and i quote too messy this guy
had to have been voted it he's not a real fucking medical there's no way too messy like that's messy that's your whole your whole entire job is messy and wily and crazy and nothing smelly and what like literally that's the field you went into brother oh you walk into that room and it's just your mess smells everything of course what are you doing have you ever honey coroner dear coroner from 1950 whatever or 1960 whatever have you performed an autopsy before because i don't think you have there's no way you have if you're like that would be messy oh no he had he had because he had also he had
fucked up cases for them in the past I'm I think you're right I didn't I I forgot about that whole thing where like they were I'm looking at it yeah I'm looking it up because this is not too messy this is not no yeah but fortunately for the prosecution moving away from that for a second fortunately for the prosecution Patricia's husband Walter Jones did actually allow them to exhume Patricia's body so that a proper autopsy could be conducted thank goodness and realistically you can't even even call it a proper autopsy at that point because she's already been fucking embalmed but they could do
way better than this guy did yeah now in addition to retrieving the remaining bullets the new pathologist like a legit one dr charles charles wheeler he was able to determine that what patricia ate before the murder she had pickles and salami which that's a girl dinner that is that truly is and i would eat that and i want that right now but he also confirmed that That she had not been sexually assaulted.
And he was able to confirm the sequence in which the bullets had entered the body.
So this guy is legit.
Yeah. Now, the new autopsy results were encouraging to the prosecution because they not only retrieved those remaining slugs, but they also concluded that the murder was not motivated by sexual deviance or robbery, leaving the most likely explanation to be a personal grudge.
Why else would this woman have been murdered?
Of course, yeah. Yeah.
Now, for Sharon, the investigation into both Patricia and James' deaths were immediately a big inconvenience.
With the murder case reopened or opened and James' death, the insurance company stopped any payments on her claims, which left her with little money for her expensive defense attorneys or her excessive spending and basic needs.
Yeah. So she was, like, in a bad place.
Now, in response, she ended up putting her house on the market.
she sold her car and she hoped that the money from those two things would keep her afloat until her payments resumed because she believed they would yeah of course now as detectives in the prosecution kept building the case against her or the cases the introduction of sharon's defense team slowed things down considerably because at every step of the way they challenged almost everything the prosecution said or did or tried to admit or of course anything and because of that actually a full year passed before either case finally went to trial.
And when they did finally go to trial, things did not look as good as the prosecution had hoped.
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Sharon's trial for the murder of Patricia Jones began June 12, 1961, with opening statements being given on the afternoon of June 14.
In his statement for the prosecution, J.
Arnett Hill presented the state's case.
They believed Sharon Kinney had been having an affair with Walter Jones, and after he refused to divorce his wife, she lured patricia to this meeting place and shot her to death once she killed patricia sharon dumped her body in an area known to be frequented by young people and staged the scene to quote give indications that a crime of sexual passion had occurred yeah fully yeah like to me i'm like yeah yeah but also we have the background knowledge of everything else that has gone on in her life absolutely unfortunately the jury did not yeah did you get anywhere yet i did so i did did see that you
were because this is called a coroner at this point yeah they do now in jackson county have and they have a medical examiner oh okay and she's a woman she looks like badass i don't know i'm just saying hell yeah she's the chief medical examiner let's go but she's a medical examiner she is a doctor she is a forensic pathologist like she is there but it says in the state of missouri uh larger urban counties operate under medical examiner jurisdiction while smaller counties by statute operate under coroner jurisdiction and it says coroners from several rural missouri counties uh contract with the jackson county
medical examiner's office for autopsy services when needed but i'm assuming back in 1960 they just had an elected coroner because that's the difference between an emmy and a coroner right as a coroner is usually an elected lay person that has no fucking business it's doing an autopsy That that's like still something that happens.
Yeah. So I think that's probably what happened here is that was an elected official who had no business doing this.
I mean, if it's not, if that's not the case, I'm appalled.
And if it is, I'm still appalled.
I would be willing to bet a lot that this was an elected official that is not a medical doctor.
I would think so because the fact that he said it was going to be too messy and also just like looking for needles in a haystack, it's like - Doing an autopsy after they had been embalmed?
Like what? what the fuck are you doing my guy when he said it would be too messy that immediately i was like your flag you're elected like that's this is not like what wild absolutely wild damn but going back to the prosecution's case their case was pretty straightforward it relied on a string of witnesses who told the jury they saw patricia with sharon kinney just before she disappeared they also relied on expert testimony from investigators and dr wheeler the actual medical like coroner here and he explained the results of the second autopsy however the prosecution still had several hurdles
before them particularly the initial botched autopsy that was going to really play a big part in this case and fuck it all up and the fact that they still had again almost no physical evidence tying sharon to this murder yeah now the lack of uh forensic evidence became apparent on cross -examination when lieutenant harry nesbit from the sheriff's department was asked about the guns collected during the search of the kinney home when defense attorney james quinn asked which guns were collected nesbitt explained that they had confiscated a 22 rifle an automatic pistol that had belonged to sharon's
father and a quote blank pistol excuse me blank pistol which won't shoot however nesbitt testified none of the guns were a match for those used in the murder of patricia jones and remember somebody that sharon had worked with had come forward and said like she made me buy her this gun yep and she said she left it with family in washington but it sounds like they were never able to locate that gun so that's okay why none of these are much because still hanging out there and it's like yeah exactly makes sense now the conflicting autopsy reports like i said made things even worse for the prosecution during his examination of the original
coroner dr hugh owens the prosecutor could barely hide his contempt for this guy he believed and actually publicly accused him of compromising their case yeah i don't blame him questioning owens was described as having quote smiled frostily evidently recalling that the handling of the body at the time resulted in a dispute between his office and law enforcement authorities who charged that an inadequate post -mortem examination had limited the collection of vital evidence yeah which also that answers our question he's a doctor her so he is legit it sounds like he is legit yeah because what his name
is uh dr hugh owens what the fuck yeah now the results of the conflicting reports meant that the prosecution now couldn't be precise about a lot of the important details the time of death the presence of any chemicals or any drugs in patricia's system and the presence of any hairs or fibers on the the body during the autopsy.
So this the fact that they had to perform a second autopsy you would think originally like oh wow that's great like thank goodness they got to do that.
Yeah. But it actually fucked everything up because now those two reports were directly conflicting with each other and it makes it look like you don't have any idea what's going on here.
It's true. So while the conflicting medical reports were undoubtedly the biggest hurdle for the prosecution to clear their additional witnesses didn't do much to help.
The day after Hill's frustrating examination of dr owens walter jones took the stand and told the jury about his relationship with sharon kinney his attempt to end their relationship and the enraged threats that he made to her when he found out that she'd been seen with patricia right before she disappeared uh the admissions didn't exactly endear him to the jury but what was more problematic was that he described sharon as being very willing to allow him to search her and her belongings for weapons and he told the jury that she offered to aid in the search for Patricia Oh damn.
I mean, after he forcibly held a knife to her throat.
I mean, yeah, there was that There was the whole lot of it.
There was that But they were like, okay, well she was willing to help you, so who does that when they've actually killed the person.
Now, that same day, the defense offered the additional slugs into evidence, the ones that had been fired from the gun that Sharon had her co -worker buy a few weeks before the murder.
The gun had been purchased in a private sale, but the investigators had actually managed to track on the previous owner who led them to a location that he used for target practice and ballistics technicians were able to pull several slugs from a tree so while they couldn't locate that particular gun they located the man who owned it and they got his slugs oh shit which like okay that was pretty good i was gonna say that was good police work but unfortunately for the prosecution the slug admitted into the evidence was a match for the caliber of the gun but could not be confirmed as the same model
used in patricia's death because they didn't have it right yeah now given the amount of circumstantial evidence versus the lack of forensic evidence in the prosecution's case the defense really didn't have to work that hard on sharon's behalf they said it was true that she'd been seen with patricia just before her death you know she'd been thoroughly uncooperative within the investigation and actually she'd been overheard at one point by law enforcement officials boasting that quote as long as we we didn't have the gun, we couldn't prove it was her.
Wow. But they said none of that conclusively linked her to Patricia's murder.
In fact, their case was even more simple than the state's.
They said, Sharon might be guilty of having an extramarital affair.
That doesn't make her a killer.
Shit. They went, like, pretty simple.
Yeah, they went really simplistic with it.
So rather than even try to prove her innocent, all they did was undermine the flimsy evidence that had been put forth by the prosecution.
Now, among those called to testify by the defense was Donald Fitzpatrick, a man who claimed he was at the Lovers Lane area with his, quote, married woman companion.
He testified that they hadn't seen any body or evidence of a murder when they were at the scene a short time before Patricia's body was discovered.
And given that the prosecution claimed Patricia had been killed at that location, Fitzpatrick's testimony actually undermined the credibility of their case.
Oh, damn. Damn. Because how did she get there?
If she was killed there, he would have seen her, they're saying.
Oh, yeah. This is getting a little wily.
It is. Wily? This is brought to you by the word wily.
Wily, yes. Very true.
So the defense took less than two days to present their case.
And on June 23, 1961, the jury went into deliberation.
After just an hour and a half, they returned with a verdict of not guilty.
What? and they cited the prosecution's heavy reliance on conjecture as the reason for the verdict so basically they're saying like you're just saying that because she had an affair with this woman's husband that you're like jumping to conclusions and it's just reasonable doubt exactly like you're just putting reasonable doubt in there exactly now when asked for a comment Sharon simply smiled and told reporters I feel as good as I can yeah I bet you do so her lead defense attorney James James Quinn, this is so stupid.
On the other hand, he had more to say on the matter.
He told the press, actually, there was a power outside this courtroom affecting this verdict, the hand of Providence, which is like a religious thing.
Yeah. Yeah. He went on to address questions about the reason for the verdict, saying, you cannot speculate, you cannot base your judgment on speculation, conjecture.
It's like, okay, we get it.
I already did that.
Everybody did. I did.
We're all speculating.
I know she did it. Stay speculating.
I'm going to stay speculating on this one.
So Sharon Kinney had managed to get away with one murder because she did murder Patricia Jones, as we all know.
Yeah. And don't worry, we'll find out for sure later that she very much did.
And in the wake of the acquittal, she entered into her next murder trial, confident that a similar lack of evidence would lead to a similar verdict.
Oh, no. I don't know.
So with the first trial behind them, the prosecution and the defense started preparing for the second one, scheduled to begin January 8th, 1962.
62. Coincidentally, it was actually to take place before the same judge, Judge Tom Stubbs, who presided over that first trial, which also makes you nervous because she just got acquitted.
Yeah, exactly. Now, defense attorney Quinn and the rest of Sharon's defense team felt pretty confident they could get their second acquittal.
The case against Sharon and the death of James seemed even weaker than the prosecution's case against her and Patricia Jones's death.
And on top of that, they were barred from admitting any new evidence.
Jesus. And with the initial determination of accidental death, that would be pretty hard for the prosecution to get around.
So after one day of jury selection, opening statements began January 9th, and again, Jay Arnett Hill laid out the state's case.
According to him, just weeks before her husband's death, both Sharon and James had confided to others that their marriage had essentially come to an end, and they had both expressed interest in getting a divorce.
the problem though was that neither of them seemed willing to agree to the other's terms which made that divorce seem unlikely so when Sharon came to the realization that she was not going to get out of her marriage as easily as she hoped and she wasn't going to come out of it with as big of a payout as she had hoped she quote called a man named Donald Boone telling him she had something dirty for him to do what and offered him a thousand dollars to kill her husband where the fuck did this come from left field baby what so hill ends up calling john boldees to the stand intending to have him confirm
a previous statement that he had given to investigators about sharon having offered him a thousand dollars to kill her husband i knew it i knew this little two -year -old did not kill a man no he didn't come on she's even worse she blamed her two -year -old daughter yeah she's the murder of her own father she sucks but in his deposition john boldy's there given before the trial he told the prosecutor about how sharon had offered him the money to kill james and implied that they could be together with james out of the way he said all of that in his deposition but on the stand boldy's insisted sharon wasn't
serious and the offer was quote unquote in a joking fashion no one jokes about hiring you as a hitman to kill their husband who who they hate and have been trying to get away from for a long time.
And if you... No one jokes about that!
If you are around someone who is joking about hiring a hitman, get as far away from that human as humanly possible.
Because again, they're not joking.
Even if you think they are, they're not.
They're serious. Why does this happen all the time in these cases where someone's like, I don't know, they were just joking about killing their dad.
And it's like, you weren't fucking joking about it.
Never in my life have I been like, what if I gave you like this specific amount of money to murder my loved one?
I've never had a fully fleshed out joke about murdering anyone that I love.
LOL. It is just not real.
All I can picture in my head is Teresa going, funny, laugh, haha.
Like, this is just not real.
Like, this guy sitting on this stand saying, like, she was always joking.
She was always so funny.
She was just kidding.
She was always a silly haha.
She doesn't feel giggles.
She was always just making these crazy jokes.
she's doing a tight 10 about me killing her husband if i give if she gives me a thousand dollars no idiot especially when someone's offering you a monetary reward for killing this person and then they're like just kidding when are you gonna learn when are you gonna learn it gets worse i'm so annoyed by this thing this this is brought to you by the world the word wiley and the phrase it gets worse it gets worse he also insisted that there was a quote unquote quote typo in his deposition testimony in the section where he quoted sharon as saying quote i got my husband taken care of and i thought
we could be together he said it should have read business not husband i got my business taken care of that's quite a fucking typo that's a real typo i love when people claim typos and it's like a whole ass word it's like that's not a typo it's like just type the word you meant to type and oops a typo would be if they spelled husband wrong Yeah.
If they were, like, Hub Sand.
Exactly. That's a typo.
Husband in business, not so much. What she meant was you said something that was pretty fucking damning, and you're like, oops, I didn't mean to say that damning thing, so I actually meant to say this not super damning thing, but still kind of damning.
It's also like, damn, motherfucker, you were really scared of her, huh?
Like, what the fuck?
Because you're sitting there safe in your deposition in the hands of police being like, oh my gosh, she said all of this, and I'm, ah, she's a crazy cuckoo woman.
I didn't say that. But he's like, Sharon, I would never.
She's the comedian of our generation.
Sharon. I didn't say that at all.
I would never besmirch her name like that.
Sharon, you have to believe me.
He's like, no, she should have a Netflix special.
Oh my God. She's so funny.
Jokes. She does it for the lols.
Wow. So Sharon's defense attorney, James Quinn there, he's seized on the inconsistencies.
Thank goodness. Well, no. Or no. Oh, it's Sharon's defense attorney.
I see why you thought that.
He's seized on the inconsistency in Boldy's story.
story in his cross examination he asked it was obviously a joke wasn't it it was just like if i'd said to you john i'd give you a thousand a hundred dollars to see you jump off of city hall wasn't it he's like we're all just lolling and laughing and having good times with each other john right we're all just comedians we're all just so funny our jokes are great but despite what bull had previously told the prosecutor the implication of defense attorney quinn's question was that But, you know, any rational person would consider such a discussion to be a joke.
And Sharon obviously wasn't serious about hiring someone to murder her husband.
I literally can't. I can't when this is a defense.
Like, I literally can't when it's like jokes, everybody jokes.
It's like, no jokes are what?
No, like jokes are jokes.
Yeah, I love a good joke.
I love comedy. I am for comedy.
Same. name. But when you joke about killing your husband and offering someone money to do so and then your husband gets murdered, it's pretty weird. That's a problem for you and that's when jokes are not fun.
Like that's a problem.
Of course it is. That's why joking about hit men is not a great idea.
Not funny. So in their closing arguments both sides rested their cases.
The prosecutor contended that Sharon had killed James in order to get rid of him and cash in on his various life insurance policies and the defense maintained the initial conclusion that it was an accidental shooting and Sharon was the funniest woman in all of history and Quinn reminded the jury of the obvious lack of evidence in the case saying and then with no more evidence than in the initial investigation the charge has changed to murder but the jury went into deliberation on the afternoon of January 11th and they deliberated a little over an hour before court was adjourned for the day Outside
of the courthouse, a confident James Quinn told reporters, we feel Sharon will be acquitted in this case.
We believe the state's evidence failed to hit the mark.
And he was right. The state really didn't have the strongest case in the world, which is why it came as a surprise to nearly everyone when the jury returned the next afternoon with a guilty verdict.
Damn! They said, guilty.
What the fuck is going on?
Where am I? So the press noted that the outcome of the case, quote, hinged on the testimony of John Boldy's.
And the reporter said that his attempts to reframe his earlier testimony as nothing more than a joke actually ended up making Sharon look way more suspicious.
It absolutely did. Now, Sharon appeared to give no reaction or show any real emotion when the verdict was read.
But the matron who booked her into the jailhouse that afternoon told the press she had little tears in her eyes and she said she didn't feel good.
Now, the next Next day, Sharon gave an interview to the press saying, I think the verdict was a mistake.
Something went wrong.
And when it came to why this bitch, when it came to why she believed she'd been convicted, she said, for a while I thought it was a good idea to have a woman on the jury.
Now I don't think so.
Oh, fuck off, Sharon.
Fuck right off. Implying that the sole female juror had been jealous or judgmental and that led to the guilty verdict.
No, it's the fact that you're an ice cold fucking killer who blamed this on your child, asshole.
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So, Sharon received a life sentence for the murder of her husband.
Bye. And during her first year in jail, her lawyers and supporters petitioned the court to have her released on bail, citing her children as a reason for the request. I'm like, y 'all, she blamed one of them for this.
I'm sorry, what? Like, she got, what?
What? just what? She just got convicted of murder.
And you're like no she has babies.
She just got convicted of murder of which she blamed her two year old daughter for.
I'm saying. And you're like but you should take care of those kids.
I'm saying. I don't think she should be anywhere fucking near those children.
Are you kidding me?
No. What is happening over there?
I don't know. Missouri is not all right.
Missouri Independence Missouri is out here wild and wild.
Are you okay? No. The answer is no. And there are anybody out out there you all right i mean hopefully now if you need help like this is this is why i hope it's gotten better since then one would damn i don't think sharon's there anymore i can tell you that much but the petitions were repeatedly denied but the ongoing coverage of the now completed trial did help win sharon's sympathy from the support in the public and while the support was not enough to overturn the verdict it was the public at this independence it did prompt a re -evaluation of the trial.
Shut up. During the reevaluation, defense attorney Quinn there argued repeatedly that Sharon was deserving of a new trial because of several administrative errors.
Initially, the petitions were denied, like I said, but when the case finally reached the state Supreme Court in early 1963, the justices agreed with the defense and ordered Sharon to receive a new trial.
I gotta go. So in July, she was freed on a $25 ,000 bond.
She had literally been been convicted elena just smacked her microphone and banged into the wall she is outie 5000 she said i gotta go she said i quit i can't this is so frustrating she had been acquitted of one murder sentenced to life in prison for another and all this and then they're like actually i don't think so and then they just let her walk they just let her walk no no absolutely not even though she'd been freed on a technicality the growing wave of support for her freedom was a strong indicator of what was to come yeah and of course oh over the course sorry not of course over the course
you went oh i didn't know where i was um this is a frustrating case over the course of 1963 and 1964 the prosecutor's office would retry sharon two more times both resulting in a mistrial the first because of a jury member's undisclosed conflict of interest come on I'm like you and Sharon fuck I was just gonna say was that the reason not a doubt in my mind and the second because of a deadlock jury which was actually leaning in favor of acquittal oh my gosh now despite the jury oh my gosh oh my god go listen to scream oh my god oh my god so despite the jury leaning toward acquittal in the third
trial the prosecutor's intent to try sharon for a fourth time for the murder of james kinney was untenable after years in courtrooms and jail cells the entire process had become exhausting for sharon she was for us too and for us and everybody in independence she was splitting her time between her trials her children and her part -time job now she was working at a motel so in a moment of impulsivity she She decided to quit her job, figuring that it would allow her to spend more time with her kids.
Allegedly. So she went down to the employment office to apply for benefits.
Now, this is insane.
It was at the employment office in August of 1964 that Sharon first laid eyes on Frank Puglisi, who was ahead of her in line, struggling to understand the paperwork he was being asked to fill out.
Oh, no. Like many of Sharon's lovers, Puglisi was a blue collar guy who dropped out of high school at 16 and, you know, had been drifting around the Midwest for years, taking random jobs where he could find them.
He also had a criminal history of petty crimes and had spent short stints in jail.
And actually he had recently gotten out of jail.
That's why he was looking for work at the employment office.
Somehow Sharon involved herself in his struggle with the paperwork and the two of them hit it off.
and started dating this gal what a meet cute what a meet cute she is quitting her job and applying for benefits you know awaiting her murder trial and she meets a man who just got out of jail honestly meant to be like damn meant to be damn damn is right this is wild she's also i'm pretty pretty sure like 28 or 29 at this point like she's I'm like your 20s were such a ride Sharon your 20s oh yeah I this is just outrageous so after the stress of all of her legal woes Sharon welcomed the male attention and affection and she and Frank dated through the rest of the summer and into the fall and just
like her other relationship Sharon and Frank fell for each other very fast and by September she convinced him to sign what she considered an informal marriage contract wrecked wow like they didn't legally get married but she was like sign this it says we're married people just have this this way i don't get it amazing yeah i don't know i don't know what sharon possessed but i'm just like i don't know she was she was good at something but the problem however was that her new trial was set to begin in early october and despite her uncanny ability to dodge any and all responsibility there was still
a chance that she was going back to prison for the murder of her fucking husband.
Yeah. Which I'm also like, Frank, you're really jumping onto this ship?
Apparently. But if we know Sharon, we know she's got a scheme up that sleeve.
We know Sharon. So about...
This is... You're gonna shit.
Oh no. About two weeks into September, she went to her lawyer's office and explained that she and Frank were in love and they wanted to take a vacation to Mexico before her trial began.
Shut the fuck up. Now, given that she was still out of jail on a $25 ,000 bond pending the outcome of the trial there was some question as to whether she could travel or not there was some question there was lots of questions there was there was inquiries into whether she should leave for mexico like mexico i don't know what i'm just losing my ability to speak her lawyer explained her lawyer explained it that as long as she was back before the trial again it was okay with him just come back no just come back for your murder trial after going to Mexico have you ever watched a fucking TV show god
damn it hurry back now Sharon hurry back now you're here for your murder trial Jesus fucking Christ I can't we're never seeing Sharon again you know what's crazy we are we are gonna see Sharon again in this case I can't predict shit in this case it doesn't make any sense like I said brought to you by Wiley so on the afternoon of September 12th 1964 Sharon made multiple trips to the local Safeway grocery store as one does each time writing bad checks to get cash for her trip for his part Frank fell back on his old ways and stole food cash and other supplies from his friends and associates frank
and sharon and also was able to borrow a car from a friend that he and sharon would eventually take up to the border my goodness or down to the board down to the border later that afternoon yes sure is later that afternoon with cash in hand and a carload of food and supplies sharon dropped her kids off with her i guess ex -mother -in -law and she and frank took off for mexico so she just dropped her kids yeah she abandoned her children yeah so they drove They drove almost non -stop for two days until they reached Laredo, Texas, the last stop before crossing into Mexico.
But unfortunately for them, without the proper paperwork or registration proving ownership of this vehicle, the border agents refused to let them go through Mexico, or go through to Mexico in the car.
And they were like, that's fine.
They ditched it at the border and took the bus into Mexico City.
This man borrowed a whole ass vehicle from his friend and then said, it's at the border.
It's at the border, sorry.
Gotta go get it. The fuck?
Now, although they made it pretty easily to their destination, neither of them spoke Spanish.
Why the fuck are you going to plan a trip to Mexico if you don't speak Spanish, like any Spanish whatsoever?
I have, I don't know.
You don't know. I don't know.
The answer is I don't know.
So that made communication a pretty big problem.
Did it? Yeah. Now, on September 14th, they checked into the Hotel Gin, which the couple chose simply for its, quote unquote, quaint name i'm like you chose that hotel because you thought they had gin yeah that that checks but when they arrived they found that the hotel was anything but quaint there were roaches climbing up the walls of the bathroom and rats and mice running from one room to another before disappearing through the holes that were in the walls no uh it was also in a neighborhood that sharon had deemed So she kept a pistol and a hatchet by her bed at all times.
Uh -oh. I have to say, Frank, baby, do you know?
Like, have you read the local paper when you were back in independence?
Oh, no. You're sleeping next to a woman who is supposed to head to trial soon for the murder of her husband, and you go to sleep next to her at night when next to her is a hatchet and a pistol?
Oh, no. The wild thing?
It's not Frank. It's not Frank?
It's not Frank. Wow, I thought it was going to be Frank.
No. So after a few days enjoying the local nightlife, Frank and Sharon were running very low on money and they were both really sick from an excess on local food and alcohol.
Probably more alcohol than food.
So on Friday, September 18th, Sharon left the Hotel Gin to go in search of an English speaking pharmacist who could give them something for their stomachs.
And she brought her pistol with her for protection.
Now, after struggling to find anyone who could accommodate her, a local man directed her her to the del del prado hotel a hotel that catered to american tourists where she could definitely find somebody who spoke english and spanish now the first person person that she encountered at the hotel was francisco paredes um or donnas a mexican -born resident of california who was in mexico to visit his family oh now sharon was already fed up with frank and the frustrations of running low on money so she welcomed the opportunity for some male attention attention fucking sharon and with the pistol tucked
in her pocket she did not hesitate when francisco suggested that they go back to his room for a few drinks he thought she was pretty now what happened next is a matter of debate and if you're putting any money on sharon i don't know what i can do for you yeah but according to sharon after two or three drinks with uh francisco she got tired and laid down on the bed to go to sleep for a while take a little nap she claimed that she she was woken around 3am when he tried to quote sexually attack her sexually.
And she said believing herself to be in danger, she drew the pistol from her pocket and fired twice into his chest, killing him instantly.
Now, the noise drew the attention of the hotel's night manager, Enrique Rueda, who ran to the room to find out what the fuck was going on.
Now, coming upon the the scene of an unknown woman woman having shot one of the hotel guests he attempted to detain sharon while he contacted police and that's when she raised the gun and shot him in the back leaving him in critical condition yeah but despite his gunshot wound and eventual critical condition he managed to lock her in the bathroom while he contacted the police this man is a hero and the the police arrived a short time later.
Now, having left one of the men at the hotel alive, there was no question of Sharon's involvement in the shooting.
But there was some question as to who the fuck she was.
When they arrived in Mexico, Sharon and Frank checked into the hotel that they were at as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Puglisi, but her identification said otherwise.
So a representative from the embassy told reporters, we were a little confused about this girl, but Kenny was the name on her tourist card. And when they did confirm her identity, officials learned that she was due in court just a few weeks later to stand trial for the murder of her husband, a date that now she would not be making.
My God. So even though she maintained that she'd only shot Francisco in self -defense, Sharon also made several unexpected comments to the authorities at the embassy, including telling one man, I've shot men before and managed to get out of it.
What the fuck? I don't think she gave a fuck at this point.
She's just like, I just, I shoot men on a regular basis and I get through it.
So I'm not really worried about this.
It's kind of my thing.
Damn. It's like, really, you're in an unknown territory right now.
So a few days later, once they were confident that Rueda would live, Mexican authorities announced plans to charge and try Sharon Kinney for the murder of Francisco Ordonez, whom they believe she murdered in an attempted robbery.
Ah, that makes sense.
I believe, too, she was running low on cash.
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Now, while officers from the Mexican Secret Service investigated the shooting, Sharon was taken to La Cumbaree Prison in Mexico City, where she was to be held until the trial.
trial now unlike the trials in the united states she had no support in mexico and her only connection was with her embassy appointed lawyer he he no lara he he knew lara on september 26 1964 both sharon and frank puglisi were arraigned on murder charges i don't know if it was because like some kind like they thought it was a plot of conspiracy exactly uh later the charges against against frank were dropped and he was deported back to the u .s but sharon continued to be held at that prison damn and she was fucking furious that she was being denied bail for the shooting now having learned of her
arrest and imprisonment uh imprisonment the mexican press dubbed her la pistolera ah that's where it comes from which translates in uh to the holster in english which i thought it would translate to the pistol but it's like the pistol holder exactly holster yeah exactly the holder.
Now having learned of the shooting and arrest authorities in Independence Missouri contacted Mexico secret service to request that the pistol used in the shooting be sent to the U .S. for tests.
Mexican authorities declined the request citing the open case but they did agree to send spent shells to detectives in Missouri.
When the shells were tested by a ballistics expert at the crime lab quote they announced the spent bullets were were identical to those found under the body of Patricia Jones, in and under the body of Patricia Jones.
I knew it! But unfortunately, at that point, Sharon had already been acquitted of Jones's murder.
Fuck double jeopardy and shit.
So the prosecutor had no choice but to publicly declare that the murder had been solved and the case was closed.
The fucking double jeopardy of it all.
So Sharon finally went on trial in a Mexican court in the fall of 1965, where she pleaded not guilty to a myriad of charges, homicide, causing bodily injuries, illegal use of firearms, and possession of false documents.
In her defense, Eugenio Lara told the three -judge panel that Sharon had fallen asleep in the bed and was awoken when Francisco climbed on top of her in what she believed was an attempted sexual assault.
But the panel of judges felt like the evidence didn't support that claim and she was found guilty of simple homicide and sentenced to 10 years i was like that's all you get for homicide um at the and she was sentenced at the newly constructed women's prison and i hope i say this right is to pull up is to palapa which is just outside of mexico city now after she served the sentence she would be deported back to the united states so news of sharon's imprisonment of course spread around the midwest and the southwest which prompted tons of news agencies to send reporters to Mexico to interview her.
And each time she maintained her innocence and stuck to her story, assuming that she would soon be free on appeal and back in the U .S. It's unclear if she knew this or not, but her sentence carried the provision that she had to serve two -thirds of it before she was even eligible for any kind of appeal.
Oh, damn. In her case, that would have meant she had to serve six and a half years before being eligible.
Whoa. Now, in an interview with a reporter from Missouri, Sharon spent most of the time talking about how much she hated the food at the prison, how the, quote, language barrier frightened her, and how the other inmates had stolen all of her personal belongings within days of her arrival, which I think is funny.
Sucks to suck. There was a ton of interest in the case just after the conviction, but the press coverage slowly faded as the months passed.
And by the winter of 1966, her name was hardly appearing in the U .S. papers.
purse the next time she would come up in the news was in an interview with the kansas city star in march of 1969 by that point she'd settled into life at the prison and told the reporter kevin kelligan that she stopped planning for the future he said she reminded me of a waitress you'd find at a truck stop she liked to talk and she gave you the impression she'd been around damn so i was like kevin oh kevin kevin such a kevin thing to say it truly is now despite what she told old kevin in there it turned out that she hadn't exactly given up on her future entirely something told me that on the evening
of december 7th 1969 after serving five of the 10 year five years of the 10 year sentence 29 year old sharon kinney attended a movie in the prison recreation hall later that evening when guards made their rounds to do bed checks they discovered sharon was missing fuck you no they discovered that she was missing officials searched the prison and its grounds all evening but turned up no signs of Sharon Kinney and eventually were forced to make a public statement to alert the press and citizens that she had escaped she had escaped prison in Mexico City shut up in Mexico City police and prison officials
had absolutely no fucking clue how she managed to escape from high -security modern prison, saying, quote, or saying only that - Because it was, like, newly constructed.
Newly constructed and, like, a high -security prison.
Yeah. They said she, quote, probably bribed several jail wardens to let her go.
Honestly. I believe it.
Probably. An intensive multi -agency search was mounted for her, covering a wide radius around the prison, but after weeks of turning up legit zero evidence, authorities announced in mid -December that they would be easing up the hunt like it was costing too much money a spokesperson for mexico city police told reporters our department will continue to hold the case open until mrs kinney is found but we are not any closer to finding mrs kinney in mexico city than the day today more than 50 years after her escape from prison sharon remains a fugitive in mexico and the united states and the authorities
are not any closer to finding her than when she did escape escape what the fuck now with each passing year it's it becomes more and more unlikely that she's still alive she's like 83 she'd be 83 this year but if she were apprehended today she would still face charges in mexico for the escape and she would face charges in the united states for the murder of james kinney but she has never been found that woman just fucking barreled through Through life.
Causing fucking. Havoc.
Havoc. And loss. Here, there, and everywhere.
And just terror. And then she just escapes.
And she killed at least three people.
I'm sorry. Sharon killed more than three people.
I know she did. Oh, yeah.
But she killed at least three.
That truck driver that she was, like, married to before she married James Kinney, allegedly.
Oh, yeah, that, like, went off a cliff.
Oh, that was the first one.
What's up with that?
Yeah, what's up with that?
What's up with that?
He went off a cliff?
No. I don't know about that.
If he went off a cliff, there was something going on.
Something happened there.
But that is the story of Sharon Kenny, a .k .a.
La Pistolera. I don't even know what to say about that story.
There are not words for this woman's wiliness.
I had no idea. Neither did I.
I had no idea. Neither did I.
I was just Googling, like, I forget even what I typed in to find this case.
but I started reading about it and I was like Dave I got a case that we have to look into.
Oh my god. Dave was like who is this woman?
Like what? Who is this woman?
Who's that girl? I'm shocked and appalled.
Shocked appalled. The fact that she's just roaming around somewhere like what?
Like if she's alive she's an 83 year old lady.
She could be your grandma.
She could be your your grandma guys listening right there she could be your grandma i do hope that she could be your grandma's friend she could be she could be your just your grandma that's crazy she could be your straight up grandma but i hope that her kids are okay that's what makes me so sad i want to know what i'm like it sounds like they're all right i mean she left them with james kinney's parents it sounds like james kinney's parents just to care them yeah i hope they're doing okay yeah Yeah.
They had a lot of upheaval in the early years.
Yeah. And I hope Dana knows that she didn't shoot her dad.
Yeah. That's the other thing.
She didn't shoot her dad.
She didn't shoot her no fucking way.
Sharon did it. And it's gross that Sharon even slightly implied.
Gross isn't even a word. It's like there are not words for the fact that she implied that.
It's so gross. Yeah.
What a fucking wild tale.
Wow. That's real. Yeah.
So with that, we hope you keep listening.
And we hope you. Keep it weird. Weird, but not so weird as any of this because what the actual fuck, Sharon.
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