Purported handwritten confession by murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd, page 01-recto, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Purported handwritten confession by murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd, page 01-recto, 1931

Date Created

October 21-24, 1931

Date

1931-10-21/1931-10-24

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

One page of a seventeen page handwritten document that reads as a confession of Winnie Ruth Judd to the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in Phoenix, Arizona in October 1931. According to the Los Angeles times article, the police believed that it was written by Ms. Judd. However, Ms. Judd denied writing it. The document was found in the women's restroom of a Department store in Los Angeles on October 24, 1931, the day after Ms. Judd turn herself in to the police. The text of the note is provided in this article "WRITTEN TRUNK MURDER CONFESSION DISCOVERED: Document Assertedly by Mrs. Judd Found in Store Wash Room; Authenticity Denied," Los Angeles Times , 25 Oct. 1931: 1

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Judd, Winnie Ruth.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

personal correspondence
news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905-

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Homicides--Arizona--Phoenix
Confessions