Oct. 9, 1962 - Winnie Ruth Judd (pictured in 1932), the “trunk murderer” of the early 1930s, escaped last night from the Arizona State Hospital. The hospital superintendent, Samuel Wick, said he did not consider Mrs. Judd dangerous. She is now 57 years old. Mrs. Judd was convicted in 1931. The escape was her first since 1953. Before that, she had slipped out of the hospital five times. Mrs. Judd was accused of killing two women friends and shipping their dismembered bodies in two trunks and a suitcase to Los Angeles. She was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after she had been ruled insane and sent to the hospital.
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