Girl Did Not Kill Herself
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Episode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s story stays consistent throughout, from the time he reported the incident to the judge/acting coroner to the time that the dead girl’s aunt stabbed him in the neck: Miss Louise Monteabaro used her own gun to commit suicide in the passenger seat of her car. But according to those who knew the young sewing machine saleswoman, that seemed unlikely.
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| 0:00.0 | True Crime Historian Presents |
| 0:23.6 | Girl Did Not Kill Herself, the mysterious death of Louise Montabarro. |
| 0:30.6 | A short true crime story by Richard O. Jones. |
| 0:45.3 | The story told by Calera Alabama Police Chief Henry Blake was consistent throughout. |
| 0:53.3 | From the time he reported the incident |
| 0:56.0 | to the judge and acting coroner, to the time that the dead girl's aunt stabbed him in the neck. |
| 1:02.0 | Miss Louise Montabarro used her own gun to commit suicide in the passenger seat of her own car. |
| 1:10.0 | Miss Montabarro, as the Chief's story goes, was speeding down the Montgomery Highway from |
| 1:16.6 | Selma on the Monday evening of November 14, 1927. |
| 1:22.6 | She left Calera at an excessive speed, so Chief Blake and Officer W.H. Farmer gave chase on their motorcycles. |
| 1:30.3 | For five miles they followed her, and then the chief saw her throw a glass bottle out of the window. |
| 1:37.3 | It shattered on the highway, and the chief fired a warning shot into the air. |
| 1:43.3 | A quarter of a mile later, she stopped the car, and the chief fired a warning shot into the air. |
| 1:48.4 | A quarter of a mile later, she stopped the car and the chief approached. |
| 2:01.5 | Blake said that Miss Montabarro, 26, had been drinking heavily, and did not seem excited when he told her that she was going to have to get in the passenger side of a car and let him drive it back to town. She was under arrest. What charges are you going to make |
| 2:08.9 | against me? she asked. Speeding and violating the liquor law, he replied. Blake parked his motorcycle, and she offered no objection as he got behind the wheel of Miss Montabarro's StarCoop, |
| 2:23.3 | turned it around, and headed back to Calera, following Officer Farmer on his motorcycle. |
| 2:30.3 | The chief said that when they got back to where the bottle had been thrown from the car, |
| 2:35.0 | Farmer stopped, got off his motorcycle, and began brushing the glass out of the road, |
| 2:41.0 | mopping up what liquid he could find with a rag. |
| 2:44.0 | Blake slowed the girl's coop and stopped at the spot, noting the odor of alcohol. |
| 2:52.2 | When the car came to a halt, the girl asked if she could roll down the window. |
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