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Kill your daddy said the Ouija board, so I did.

The San Francisco Examiner March 4, 1934.

Headline Kill your daddy said the Ouija board, so I did.

Subheadline.

With tears in her eyes, 15-year-old Maddie Turley obeyed the spirit's command and fired both barrels of a shotgun into her father's back.

Quote, so dear mother could have her freedom, end quote.

But Mrs. Turley says accident.

Article.

The Ouija board told me to shoot daddy so that mother could have her freedom.

It was terrible. I shook all over. So I shot him.

This, according to police officials, was the beginning of a confession by Maddie Turley.

One of the prettiest 15-year-old girls in the state of Arizona and daughter of the once famous beauty.

Mrs. Dorothea Irene Turley.

Formerly Irene Kellynac.

Operatic singer and winner against 50,000 competitors for the title, The American Venus.

Stealing silently behind her father, Maddie brought the shotgun to her shoulder.

Placed a plucked eyebrow at the breach to sight carefully.

And then with one of those painted fingernails which her father disliked,

pulled both triggers and let him have it right in the back so the police assert she told them.

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