Winnie Ruth Judd (1905 - 1998, by the press nicknamed "The Tigers Wife") was convicted in Phoenix, Arizona in 1931 for the murder of two of her roommates that same year.
Winnie was married to Dr. William Judd and worked in his clinic in Phoenix. She lived together with two other women, Agnes LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson, in an apartment in the city. On October 16, 1931, the neighbors heard shots, and the next day only Winnie Judd appeared at her work. Two days later, on the 18th of October, Judd ransacked two suitcases when she stepped on to Los Angeles on the train. A perron chief saw a dark fluid from one of the bags dropping. When Judd was asked to open the suitcases, she fled. The police opened the suitcases and found the body of Agnes LeRoi and parts of Hedvig Samuelson's body.
On October 23, Judd was arrested in Los Angeles and returned to Phoenix. Meanwhile, the case had reached the newspapers nationally, and was renamed in "the suit murder". During the lawsuit, Winnie Judd stated that during a quarrel in the apartment, Hedvig Samuelson had drawn a gun. After judding Judd, Judd said, a struggle with the other two women who died. Although she allowed Samuelson's body to be cut into pieces, she accused a businessman from Phoenix, Carl Harris, of having proposed this. The jury was guilty of Judd and condemned her to the death penalty, but the verdict was void when the court ruled that Winnie Judd was insane. She was transferred to a psychiatric facility, where she would stay until 1971, despite repeated escape attempts. She passed away in 1998, 93 years old.
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