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Okay. Despite the dry, hot sun beating down in Arizona, one name was able to send chills down the spines of everyone who lived there. Winnie Ruth Judd. On October 18, 1931,

Winnie, known as Ruth, boarded a Los Angeles bound train at Phoenix's Union Station with a bandaged hand and a noticeable amount of luggage, two large trunks,

a suitcase, a hatbox, and a satchel. During the ride, Ruth began to attract attention. Her

luggage began to emit a foul smell, and what appeared to be blood began leaking out. By the time

she arrived in Los Angeles, police greeted Ruth and asked

her to open her luggage, suspecting she was smuggling deer meat. Ruth claimed she was unable to do so

that her husband had the keys to her luggage and quickly fled the scene. Police then pried open

the luggage, only to be hit with a horrible stench and a grisly sight.

Inside one of the trunks was the body of a woman named Anne Leroy, who had been shot in the head.

In the remaining luggage was the dismembered body of another woman, Sammy Samuels.

Newspapers across the country rushed to cover the crime,

dubbing Ruth the blonde butcher, the velvet tigress, and most famously, the trunk

murderess. She became a figure larger than life and the subject of ghost stories that would

haunt children for years to come. Now her story is being told again.

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

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