Sharon Kinne
Sharon Kinne, also known as Jeanette Pugliese and La Pistolera in Mexico, and Diedra Grace "Dee" Glabus in Canada, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and prison escapee who was convicted in Mexico for one murder and is suspected of two others in the United States, one of which she was acquitted of at trial. She was the subject of the longest outstanding arrest warrant for murder in the history of Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the longest outstanding felony warrants in U.S. history. In January 2025, it was announced that Kinne had lived in the small Canadian town of Taber, Alberta, from approximately 1973 until her death in 2022.
On March 19, 1960, Sharon's husband, James Kinne, was found shot in the head inside the home they shared in Independence, Missouri. Sharon claimed that the couple's two-year-old daughter, who had often been allowed to play with James' firearms, had accidentally shot him, and police were initially unable to disprove her story. Then, on May 27, the body of 23-year-old Patricia Jones, a local file clerk, was found by Sharon and a boyfriend in a secluded area. Investigators found that Jones had been the wife of another of Sharon's boyfriends, who had tried to break off their affair shortly before Jones disappeared. When Sharon admitted to having been the last person to speak with Jones, she was charged with her murder and, upon further investigation of his death, that of James.
Sharon went to trial for Jones' murder in June 1961 and was acquitted. A January 1962 trial on charges of murdering James ended in conviction and a sentence of life imprisonment, but the verdict was overturned because of procedural irregularities. The case went to a second trial, which ended within days in a mistrial. A third trial ended in a hung jury in July 1964. Sharon was released on bond following the third trial and subsequently traveled to Mexico before a scheduled fourth trial could be held in October 1964.
In Mexico, Sharon, claiming to have been acting in self-defense, killed a Mexican-born American citizen named Francisco Paredes Ordoñez, who was shot in the back. An employee of the hotel in which the shooting occurred, responding to the sound of gunshots, was also wounded but survived. Investigation into the shootings showed that Ordoñez was shot with the same weapon that killed Jones. Sharon was convicted in October 1965 of the Ordoñez killing and sentenced to ten years in prison, later lengthened to thirteen years after judicial review. She escaped from prison in Iztapalapa during a power outage in December 1969.
Sharon's whereabouts remained unknown for over fifty years until January 2025, when U.S. authorities confirmed she had taken the name of "Diedra Glabus" and lived in Canadawhere she initially ran a local motel and, later on, operated a real estate agencybetween 1973 and her death in 2022, at age 82. While Sharon's case is officially closed, authorities still seek information about her movements after 1969.
Early life and marriage
Sharon Kinne was born Sharon Elizabeth Hall on November 30, 1939, in Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. Her parents, Eugene and Doris Hall, were devout members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a denomination in the Latter-day Saint movement. When she was in junior high school, Sharon's parents relocated the family to Washington State, but by the time she was aged 15 they had returned to Missouri. In the summer of 1956, at age 16, Sharon met James Kinne, a 22-year-old student at Brigham Young University, while attending a church function. The couple dated regularly until James returned to BYU that fall.Sharon, who was reportedly searching for a partner with prospects who could take her away from Independence, wrote a letter to James claiming that she was pregnant by him. James took leave from BYU and returned to Independence, where he married Sharon on October 18, 1956. The couple's marriage license falsely identified Sharon as being eighteen years old and a widow; though she later refused to address the assertion, Sharon told people at the time that she had been married when she lived in Washington State, to a man who later died in a car accident. The new couple held a second, more formal wedding the following year at the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, after Sharon had completed the process of joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After their wedding, the Kinnes returned to Provo, Utah. James resumed his studies at BYU but put them on hold again at the end of 1956's fall semester. The couple returned to Independence, where both partners took jobs—Sharon babysat and tended shops, while James worked as an electrical engineer at Bendix Aviation. Although Sharon claimed to have miscarried the child that had brought about their marriage, she soon became pregnant again. In the fall of 1957, she gave birth to a girl the couple named Danna.
Sharon was reportedly a lavish spender who expected finer things out of life, but on James' salary they lived first in a rented home next to his parents' residence, then in a ranch-style house they had built at 17009 East 26th Terrace, Independence. James worked the night shift at Bendix, and Sharon filled her days with shopping and, later, with other men. By the time the couple had a second child, a boy named Troy, Sharon was carrying on a regular extramarital affair with a friend from high school, John Boldizs.
By early 1960, James was contemplating divorce, partially because of Sharon's spending habits and partially because he strongly suspected her infidelity. He spoke to his parents about the possibility of divorce the day before his death, telling them that Sharon had agreed to give him one if he allowed her to keep the house, gave her custody the couple's daughter and paid her US$1,000 in alimony. James' parents, devout Mormons, urged him to stay in the marriage. Sharon, too, was thinking about ways out of the marriage; according to Boldizs, she once offered him US$1,000 to kill her husband, or find someone who would, although he later claimed that she may have been joking.
1960 deaths
James Kinne
According to Sharon, on March 19, 1960, at around 5:30 p.m., she heard a gunshot from the direction of the bedroom in which James was sleeping. Entering the room, she found two-and-a-half-year-old Danna on the bed next to her father, holding one of his firearms, a High Standard.22 Pistol; James was bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound in the back of his head. Sharon called police, but James was dead by the time the ambulance carrying him arrived at the hospital.Police were unable to recover any fingerprints from the well-oiled grip of the pistol, and a paraffin test for gunshot residue was not performed on either Danna or Sharon. Multiple people, including family and neighbors, told police that James had often allowed Danna to play with his guns, and in a test by investigating officers, Danna proved able to pull the trigger on a gun matching the one that had killed her father. With no evidence to the contrary, investigators ruled the case an accidental homicide.
The pistol that killed James was taken into police custody and never returned to Sharon, despite her efforts to reclaim it; she later had a male friend secretly buy her a.22 caliber automatic pistol. When the friend told Sharon that he had registered the gun in her name, she requested that he re-register it under a name other than hers.
With the investigation into his death closed, James was buried and Sharon collected on his life insurance policies, valued at about US$29,000.
Patricia Jones
Patricia Jones, born Patricia Clements, was one of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clements of St. Joseph, Missouri. After graduating from Benton High School, she married Walter T. Jones Jr., her high school sweetheart. Walter enlisted in the United States Marine Corps shortly after their wedding, and the couple relocated to the West Coast during his service. After Walter received his discharge, the couple returned to Missouri and settled in Independence with their two children. By 1960, almost five years into the marriage, Jones was working as a file clerk for the Internal Revenue Service while her husband was a car salesman.Despite his marriage and children, Walter reportedly had a wandering eye. On April 18, Walter met Sharon when she bought a Ford Thunderbird from his dealership using some of the insurance payout from her husband's death. The two began an affair shortly thereafter. Sharon viewed Walter as a prospect for a second husband, but he was uninterested in leaving Patricia despite difficulties in their marriage. When he declined to join her on a trip to Washington State in May, Sharon reluctantly went with her brother Eugene instead. Although they reunited on May 25, the relationship became fraught when Sharon told Walter that she was pregnant with his child. Instead of responding with what Sharon expected to be an agreement to divorce Patricia, Walter ended the affair.
According to her later testimony, on the afternoon of May 26, Sharon contacted Patricia at her office and told her that Walter was having an affair with Sharon's sister. Sharon then met with Patricia that evening to discuss the matter further before dropping her off near the Jones residence.
After Patricia failed to return home that evening, Walter filed a missing persons report with police the next day and began calling people he thought might have seen his wife. He got a lead when he spoke to friends of Patricia's who carpooled to work with her. They told him that Patricia had reported receiving a phone call that day from an unnamed woman who wanted to meet with her. Patricia had asked the carpool driver to drop her off at a street corner in downtown Independence, which he had done. The occupants of the carpool had seen a woman waiting for Patricia in another car but did not recognize her. They nevertheless provided a description of the unknown woman to Walter.
Suspicious of the identity of the woman based on the carpoolers' general description, Walter called Sharon and asked if she had seen or spoken to his wife. Sharon allowed that she had, indeed, seen Patricia that day; she had met her to tell her about Walter's affair. According to Sharon, she last saw Patricia where she dropped her off near the Jones residence, speaking to an unknown man in a green 1957 Ford.
Based on her admission over the phone, Walter met with Sharon late Friday evening and insisted she give him more details about his wife's whereabouts; he later admitted to going so far as to hold a key to her throat threateningly. Sharon's response was, after leaving Walter, to call Boldizs and ask him to help her search for Patricia. Shortly before midnight, within hours of her conversation with Walter, Sharon and Boldizs discovered the body of a woman in a secluded area approximately one mile outside of Independence. According to Boldizs, he had been the one to suggest searching the area in which they encountered the body; it was a spot to which they had often gone on dates before.
The body, dressed in a black sweater and yellow skirt, was soon identified as Patricia's. She had been shot four times by a.22 caliber pistol. Although the fatal wound was a shot to her head, entering near her mouth on an upward trajectory, she also had one through-and-through bullet wound to her abdomen and two penetrating gunshot wounds to her shoulders on a downward trajectory through her body. Powder burns on the hemline of her skirt, which had been raised to her waist, indicated that the gun had been fired from close range at least once. Initial reports and investigation placed Patricia's time of death at approximately 9 p.m. on May 27. She was buried on May 31.