Three Strikes and You're Dead: Louise Peete - Part 2
Once Upon A Crime
Esther Ludlow
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In the conclusion of the story of Louise Peete, the convicted murderess is released from prison and, before long, goes on to commit another violent crime.
Several resources were used in the research for this episode including:
Dead Woman Walking:Louise Peete by Joan Renner - www.derangedlacrimes.com
Black Widow, Mara Bovsun, Daily News New York, November 18, 2001
She Buried Them All by Bill Walker in Saga: The Magazine for Men, January 1962.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast details true crime cases. |
| 0:03.1 | It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence. |
| 0:06.8 | It is not intended for children. |
| 0:08.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.9 | Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. |
| 0:18.9 | We're in the series, Three Strikes in You're Dead, where I detail cases of murderers |
| 0:23.5 | who were caught, sent to prison, and then inexplicably set free to kill again. |
| 0:29.5 | This is part two of the story of Louise Pete. |
| 0:32.8 | When we last left off, Louise Pete had just been released after serving 18 years for the murder of her former employer and lover, Jacob Charles Denton. |
| 0:42.5 | There were some that supported her release, believing that she had been truly reformed during her time into Hatchapie Women's Prison. |
| 0:49.8 | Others felt the need to warn the parole board that Pete's long history of criminal acts and violence |
| 0:54.6 | should make her ineligible to walk free among the public. But on April 11, 1939, at the age of 58, |
| 1:02.9 | Louise Pete walked out of prison to begin her new life. Perhaps she decided to try and go straight this time |
| 1:09.0 | because it seems she kept her nose clean, for a while. |
| 1:12.6 | Or perhaps she was just biting her time, waiting until her name dropped out of the news, and she wasn't being watched as closely. |
| 1:20.6 | Or maybe she waited until she found just the right opportunity to begin her career as a thief and scam artist once again. |
| 1:28.8 | Before too much time had passed, Louise Pete found her next victims and was back to her old |
| 1:34.2 | tricks. This is Chapter 3 in the Three Strikes and Your Dead series, the story of Louise |
| 1:40.4 | Pete, Part 2. |
| 1:48.4 | Louise Pete, the woman who was said to have committed, quote, |
| 1:54.4 | one of the most cold-blooded and calculating murders for profit in California history, end quote, |
| 1:58.2 | was not released from Tachapu Women's Prison without fanfare. |
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