A Kansas City-area woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a prison in Mexico more than 50 years ago has died in Canada, where she was living under an alias, authorities announced Thursday. Since she reportedly escaped a women's prison on Dec.
But finally, through an anonymous tip, authorities were able to confirm that she died of natural causes on Jan. All pending charges against her were dropped this week. She was really good at what she did. Her family said in a statement, which was read aloud during the news conference, that the discovery brought closure. Kinne, who married at 16, was living in a ranch home in the Independence, Missouri, area in March when her year-old husband, James Kinne, was shot in the back of the head while napping.
Independence is just outside of Kansas City. The death was ruled accidental. But Kinne and her husband had been having marital problems, and she was seeing other men, later court testimony revealed. She tried to get him to break off the marriage. A massive search ensued for the woman. And an all-male jury acquitted her to courtroom applause.
In January , Sharon Kinne was convicted of killing her husband. But, the Missouri Supreme Court later overturned the conviction because of improper jury selection. She was tried again, but jurors couldn't agree on a verdict.
She was released on bond, something Love said wouldn't happen today. Sharon Kinne then fled to Mexico with a new boyfriend in September , Love said. That same month, she picked up a man in a bar and went with him to a hotel. Around 3 a. Kinne got 13 years for killing Ordonez. Ultimately, the identification was possible because fingerprints from the funeral home that handled Kinne's remains were compared to prints taken of Kinne at the time of the killings.
