The oldest murder story ever told isn't about a thief or a soldier.

It's about two brothers, a simple farmer named Kane and his brother, Abel.

When Kane saw Abel receiving a favor, he believed he deserved, jealousy took root.

And the first crime in human history wasn't committed by a stranger. It was an act of intimate,

personal betrayal. The 1931, Ruth Judge shared an inseparable sisterhood with her best friends, Anne and Sammy.

They worked together, lived together, and tried to outrun the same hard times together.

But when Ruth's desperate love for a man named Happy Jack

fell threatened by Anne, that sisterhood cracked.

And according to one later confession,

she waited outside their window,

letting jealousy guide her hand towards a devastating betrayal of her own. I am Harvey Guienne, and this is Killer Stories. stories. There were two Americas in 1923, the one,

banning alcohol, and the one finding increasingly

creative ways to ignore that.

The 20s were just starting to roar.

Young women were stepping into jobs, independence, and the kind of trouble your mother

absolutely warned you about.

Winnie Ruth McKinnell was 18 and looking forward to really living.

As the daughter of a minister, she'd grown up in a strict household.

She was willing to work hard and it didn't hurt that everybody thought she was beautiful.

There were so many possibilities and then one day Destiny seemed to present itself.

Winnie or Ruth, her preferred name, was at work when she glanced up over mounds of paperwork

and locked eyes with Dr. William Judd.

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