Subject: Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905- / Genre: glass plate negatives / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Winnie Ruth Judd is extradited to Phoenix, Arizona to stand trial for the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson. She is seated in the front passenger seat of an automobile beside Phoenix Sheriff James R. McFadden. The car is in the basement of the Hall of Justice, at 211 W. Temple Street. Phoenix jail matron Jewell Jordan, is in the back seat. Reported in: "SLAYER BEGINS PHOENIX TRIP: Mrs. Judd Pleased as Long Auto Ride Begins Two Cars Carry Officials; Husband Follows Lengthy Conference Held in Jail With Lawyer," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 1931: A1.
Date:: October 29, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A police detective leans over a pile of soiled fabric. Behind him is an open trunk. These materials were among the luggage that Winnie Ruth Judd used to ship the corpses of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi from Phoenix to Los Angeles by train.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective James McFadden (center) is at a police station to extradite Winnie Ruth Judd to Phoenix to stand trial for the murder of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi. A reporter is on the left.
Date:: October 29, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Winnie Ruth Judd and Chief Detective Joseph Taylor face an officer on the opposite side of a counter during her arrest at a police station. Other men, including two policemen, are behind them.
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two men examine a trunk that was used my Winnie Ruth Judd to transport the remains of murder victims Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson.
Date:: October 20, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two police detectives conduct an investigation in a room at the La Vina Sanatorium where Winnie Ruth Judd stayed while hiding from the police after her arrival in Los Angeles. She was being sought in connection with the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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
Date:: October 21-24, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two photographs of Winnie Ruth Judd, who was suspected of murdering Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi. On the left, she is seated on a bench beside her husband, Dr. W. C. Judd. On the right, she stands in front of a bush.
Date:: [1925-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police officer M. L. Duvall in a house or cabin that might have been a place where Winnie Ruth Duvall was hiding after arriving in Los Angeles and before she turn herself in on October 23. He stands beside a table with dishes and paper bags while holding a spatula.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The husband, sister-in-law and brother of murder suspect, Winnie Ruth Judd, at the police station being questioned. From left, Dr. W. C. Judd, Carolina Judd, and Burton J. McKinnell. They were questioned while Winnie Ruth Judd was being sought for the murders of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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