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and let’s talk about Louise
okay Louise
she was born September 30th 1880
but the crazy ones were in like the 1800s
early 1900s
I don’t know what it was
something was in the water she was born in a
bennville Louisiana did I say that
right I probably did not bennville
Louisiana okay and her father was super wealthy oh yes
very wealthy man
he ran a newspaper company
and honestly it was very
clear to Louise
that she came from a very privileged life
at the age of 15 she
would go on to attend a private school
in New Orleans
New Orleans do you remember
a couple videos ago I said New Orleans I got
roasted in the comments
I get it so she goes to a private
school New Orleans um but she
wouldn’t last there too long because she was expelled
she got caught
stealing from her classmates
and then the
final nail in the coffin
was when she was caught engaging in some
sexual behavior with other boys in the
school you know so she got
kicked the heck out there’s really not much information
about her upbringing like I was trying to figure out
where her mom was at and stuff and
again cause it’s such an old story it’s like
the look so some of the details are missing but
you’ll get it it’s
still a very interesting one
so she grows up very privileged family wealthy great
and then in 1903
Louise she marries her husband her first husband
his name is Henry Bosley
and he worked as a
traveling salesman
Louise seemed to like the fact that
Henry was away all the time you know
cause he’s a
traveling salesman so he’s like not home
and Louis like that
because while
he was away
Louise did indeed play if you know what I mean
she was having many affairs
it’s not very nice Louise
anyways so after 4 years of marriage
Henry comes home one day from working
comes home early
he opens up the door and what does he find
Louise is inside with another man
he’s absolutely devastated
like he’s heartbroken
over this and because he walked in on Louise
the love of his life
cheating on him he
was he fell into like a really deep depression okay
and then soon
after he ended up committing suicide
yes it’s rough in the
first 5 minutes I know
after her husband’s
death Louise decides to move to
Shrevenport Louisiana
another part of Louisiana
so she moves
and she’s in need of a job
right she’s got bills to pay
she’s new in town
great so she
starts looking around for a job
and Louise figured the easiest job for her
I’m not saying this is
an easy job it she felt like it was an easy job for her
was to become like a high
class sex worker
but she could
make even more
money extra
money on top of that by simply
stealing some
money from her clients when they
weren’t looking so
she would you know when
they were like doing something else she was
sneaking off and like taking some
money from them
and Louise she pulled
these tricks for
about 2 years but decided she was over it
and then in 1911
Louise moved to Boston
where she wanted to
change her name for some reason she needed to rebrand
and she changed her name to Louise
M gold Louise when she’s in Boston she gets a new scam
going and she
starts telling people that she’s a 19 year old
heiress from
Dallas Texas
who has been confined to a convent
by her family
and she had run away she had escaped
I mean there’s no Internet back then or anything
right so it’s like yeah sure you are
whoa you know
I know we don’t know too much
about her upbringing but
we know that wasn’t true it was fake
that was a lie
Louise is kind of
spinning this web of lies
while mixing and mingling
with the wealthier families of Boston
now it’s said that Louise was a very beautiful
woman and she was very charming
it’s not long before she manages to convince one of
these wealthy families to take her in like almost adult
adopting her
very bizarre but okay
but it’s also not long before Louise is up to her old
tricks again okay
she decided she was
gonna start to scam the family she
would run up
large bills at some of the most
expensive stores in Boston
and she was also
stealing money
not only from the family she was staying with but also
their friends
and their employees
this is like the olden days
where you could be like put it on the card
put it on the Johnson
account you know and it’s like you
could just pay
later or something no one
would let you
do that now but this at this time that was a
thing so she was doing that like put it on the tub
yeah she was
she was running up a big Bill
not having to pay anything now it’s not
clear how but
someone catches on to her lies and
like what she’s really been up to
okay so they
tell the family that she’s been staying with hey
she’s lying to you
she’s doesn’t come from a wealthy family
she’s been stealing money
and she’s been running up a Bill
I don’t know but I’m
assuming it was something like that you know well
again this is
the olden days 1911 at the
time and the wealthy family she was staying with was
super embarrassed
that they were duped in the
first place
their first thought was if anybody finds out
they would suffer
greatly from public embarrassment
okay and that’s like
the most important
thing public
embarrassment so they don’t want that okay
so the families
like we’re not
gonna press charges
but they tell Louise
if you go away
okay if you promise to
leave town we won’t
press any charges
she’s like okay
promise I mean what a deal
no lessons to be
learned there
sounds great so Louise
goes to Waco
Texas where
she meets right away a wealthy oil boss
named Joe Apple
now Joe loves
diamonds oh yes
he has diamonds on
everything rings belt buckles even the buttons on his
shirt had diamonds on them
and he loved
to flaunt his wealth to the peasants with
their basic belts and
shirts you know
so he’s just a douche
a rich douche
well Louise
sees the diamonds and she’s like hell yeah sign me up
she goes straight to him
b line for that guy and
I don’t know I don’t know what
her deal is but she’s able to get a man very easily and
things between Joe and Louise they get pretty hot and
heavy pretty damn
quickly okay
um but the relationship itself is pretty
short lived
one week after they met
Joe was found
dead his cause of death
he was shot
but not only that
all of his diamond jewelry was missing
now many had seen Joe and Louise together so naturally
Louise was arrested
she was arrested for the crime
and she went all the way to
trial for the
crime because
it was believed she was the murderer but
again people just really seemed
to enjoy just like Louise I don’t
freaking know man she sat on the
stand and told the jury that Joe had
tried to rape her
so she killed him in
self defense
she had no diamonds in her
possession so
the jury they side with her
self defense
and they find her not guilty
and she’s released
now that’s all fine
and dandy you know
because like that does happen and
self defense is important but as we go on in the story
you’ll such a question
if that’s true or not
you know so Louise to science that was a pretty
close call I mean she went all the way to
court she almost got
in trouble for murder
she needs to move
again and rebrand
herself because now people know her in town
as you know this questionable
woman so in 1913
she picks up and she moves again
this time she goes to
Dallas Texas
look I don’t know how she did it but she did
she would find a rich guy on day one it was
literally weeks
after being there
she meets and
marries a man
also named Henry
no no no no his name is Harry
sorry his name is Harry
he works as a
night clerk
at a hotel called
Saint George
in the 19 thirties
Saint George
would get like a
$100,000 makeover it was a really big deal
and the hotel
would be renamed as Hotel
Whitmore one
night Harry is working his his
night shift at the hotel
when a robbery happened
there was 20 000
worth of jewels
stolen out of the hotel safe
he tells Louise like there’s been a robbery like all
these these
jewels are missing
and Louise is like oh my God
that’s crazy
you know and so he calls up the police
and police come and they interrogate Harry
but he’s eventually
cleared of any involvement with the missing jewelry
because he doesn’t
have them investigators then look into Louise
right because she’s been hanging with Henry like
maybe something’s up with her
so they look into her thinking
maybe she did it
but at the end
of the day there was 0 evidence linking her to the
crime and none of them had the
jewels in their
possession so
it couldn’t have been them now
sadly even though they had both been
cleared by police
Harry allegedly
wasn’t able to like
really move past the embarrassment of being accused of
stealing from the hotel
and it was said he fell into a major
deep depression
leading him to
commit suicide there’s a lot of speculation that
Harry did not actually commit suicide
rumors were
going around that Luis
actually was the one who pulled the
trigger but again
there was no evidence to actually
prove that this was true so
it was just all speculation and
rumors but ain’t that little fishy
that’s 3 boyfriends who are dead hmm
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so now Louise is done with
Texas and she decides that she’s
going to move to Denver
Colorado in 1915
and this once a
freaking again
she meets and marries a salesman his name is Richard
Pete so they get married these 2 they get
married and they go on and they have a daughter
named Francis Ann
they call her Betty for short
and this happens about a year after they meet
so like clockwork Luis
she seems to struggle with
married life which leads to the couple
to be constantly fighting disagreeing about stuff
and then 4 years later in 1920
the 2 decide its best to separate
so they do Louise seems to only have
about a 4 year threshold of people and
places because she then leaves her husband
and daughter
and then she moves to Los Angeles California
I don’t know how she’s doing it I really don’t okay
great so she moves to Los Angeles wow
and guess what
you probably guessed
right she meets a guy
named Jacob
Denton who was like a recent widower
and he had a teenage daughter
leaving her own
daughter to be a mother to someone else’s child
it didn’t seem
to be louise’s
cup of tea you know she’s like damn it no
but it turns out
Jacob is also a mining engineer who made millions
before he retired
so she’s like
I’ll give it a whirl
you know she’s whatever
she just sees dollar signs
their meet Cute love
story starts when
Louise inquires
about a 14 room mansion
she is hoping to rent
and what she wants a 14 room mansion for
we may never know
but she does
and Jacob the guy
he’s the one who’s renting it and he’s asking
$350 a month
to rent his 14 bedroom mansion
and Louise is able to
sweet talk him all the way down to
$75 a month
first of all
$350 a month for a 14 room
mansion in Los Angeles
a tragedy on its own what the hell cannot
even come close
to relating Louis
350 for our 14 room mansion
I know that was a lot to them back then but still
anyways so Louise
sweet talks
him she gets him down to $75
great Louise
moves in on May
26 and then
she and Jacob
start hooking up
it wasn’t long
until Louise
she proposes
marriage to Jacob but
he turns her down saying that he was
going out of town for a
month and like
I just wasn’t
gonna work out
wasn’t in a
schedule and when Louise hears this she is
quite upset
I mean she always
gets her way I mean nobody has told her no
so far you know
so she’s just really unsure what to do with
these new emotions no
huh you know
so now during this time
rumors are circulating around town as to what role
Louis plays in
jacob’s life
is she really
his living girlfriend
like Louise
claim she is
is she the housekeeper is she the tenant
she never signed to Lee so who is she
you know people
aren’t just talking gossiping trying to figure out
who this lady was living in this big old mansion and
where she came from
well a couple days
after louise’s proposal
Jacob just poof
vanishes disappears
gone now he was supposed to go out of town for a month
but no one can confirm if he did indeed actually go
so Louise tells
the neighbors
that oh yeah he went away for the
month yes yes I saw him off don’t worry like
he’s just gone for business calm down girl
and like don’t
worry about it
cause they were kind of asking like
where is he it’s been a
while and then sometime goes on things
carry on but you know people
deep down are having that
funny feeling that something’s not
right with Louis hmm
so a few days
later Louis
hires a gardener to come out to the
house and spruce it up
spruce it up a bit you know
so she brings
a gardener in and she’s like hey can you come into the
house and unload a
bunch of dirt into the basement of the house
now the gardener is like
um that’s a very odd request what exactly
is a dirt for
in the basement
you know and Louise tells him that she’s
planning on growing
jacob’s favorite kind of mushrooms
down there as a surprise so when he comes home he’s
gonna be like oh my God
mushrooms my
house just what I always wanted you know
super strange
but she has money
and these gardeners are here to work so it’s like meh
sheriff will do it makes enough sense
so they load in a
bunch of dirt into the basement
and she’s gonna grow some mushrooms I guess
then on June 5th
Louise shows up to the
local bank with a
permission slip from
Jacob to withdraw
$300 from his bank account
and it’s also giving her access to his
safety deposit box
now the bank teller notice that
jacob’s signature
it looks a little suspicious
it didn’t look so
right you know
so she’s kind
of like this is off let me say something so she
points it out to Louise
like you know the signature doesn’t
girl it’s fake you know
and Louise is
she just gives the teller some
crazy story
about how she
had to help
Jacob write his signature with his left hand because
his right arm had to be amputated
after he got an argument with the mysterious and very
angry quote
Spanish looking
woman who shot him
super believable
super believable
she’s like yeah that’s what happened this is a real
story that’s what’s even better
about this whole nonsense
and the teller
I don’t know I guess she’s like
oh wow that must like that does happen I hear
and she gives
Louise access to the money and the safety deposit box
she gets away with everything
but Louise seems to be having a hard time keeping her
story straight
maybe she just
doesn’t give a
rat’s ass I don’t really know but she retells the story
again when she comes back to the bank at a later time
but this time saying that the
woman cut off his arm
and his leg but this time with a
sword very dramatic situation
she then said that
Jacob was so
embarrassed by his amputated arm not the leg though
but just the arm that he had locked himself up in the
house and will only
speak to her
and her only
so as the weeks go by
jacob’s friends neighbors and business associates
they start worrying and they’re questioning
Louis a bit they’re pushing a little bit harder
like where’s
Jacob we haven’t seen him
meow meow meow and Louise
she just always had an answer she
would tell him like oh his business trip got extended
I’m sure he’ll be back soon like don’t worry
about him he’s totally okay
depending on who was asking her
story would
change sometime he lost an arm sometimes he didn’t
it just whatever
you know she’s free balling it I think I’m
using that term correctly free balling it anyway well
Jacob was out of town
air quotes Louise
seemed to be
quite happy running the show she was
spending his money
driving his Cadillac
renting out the rooms in his mansion and just
in turn she was pocketing the rent
money smart
I’ll give her that
she bought 2 very expensive
dresses at a
local high end department
store under
jacob’s name
while claiming to be his wife
she also pawned a
bunch of his jewelry
and more valuable possessions
I mean she is doing the most
and she wasn’t worried
about damn thing
she was like doing it so confidently and very openly
there was no
secret you know this girl’s bold I
think cause she knows she
could just pick up and
leave again she’s not worried
about it Louise
found out that
Jacob had some rental properties out in Phoenix Arizona
and she’s able to contact the tenants
and she convinces them to
start making
their rent checks out to her
instead of Jacob wow you know
she was really doing it she was she was
professional
scammer okay so you know how I mentioned
earlier that
Jacob had a teenage
daughter okay well if you don’t remember
he had a teenage
daughter and
while all of this was happening Louise
running around stealing
money and just being a shitty person
jacob’s daughter
knows something is
up with this
shitty woman now
jacob’s daughter she was living with Louise in the
house but my
guess is that
it’s a 14 bedroom mansion
so like you
probably really don’t have to interact with one another
if your house is that big
that’s what I’m imagining
right she’s probably like on the left wing
and you’re on the
right wing and you
never really see each
other unless you have to
so that’s why I’m
thinking she wasn’t
like so concerned with the daughter
I don’t know
I’m really guessing but eventually the
daughter really
starts to question Louise
I mean her father
has been missing or gone for far too long by this
point so she’s like you know what
I’m not getting any straight answers from this Louise
woman let me hire a lawyer in hopes to
help find my father
so a lawyer comes out and questions Louise
like you know
where’s Jacob
and she just kind of
blows him off saying that she really just
doesn’t know
he’s on a business trip but whatever but she does
agree to give the lawyer
Jacobs financial
and business documents as soon as she can
it might be a few days
until she can gather that information
but she’ll hand that over to make sure there wasn’t
any unusual activity
going on you
know hopefully
track where he’s at
she’s like yeah I’ll get that
right over at this
point Louise had rented out
every room in the mansion
and she decides
this is her cue to go
okay she’s like
well my time has expired here and she packs up her
stuff and she ends up
going back to
Denver Colorado
what Louise
does is she goes crying back to her ex husband Richard
the one that’s taking care of the baby
yeah she goes crying back to him like
take me back I want to be a family
again I miss you
just so messed up
and Richard is like dude I just been taking care of our
daughter for the last 4
months and trying
to figure it out and now you just want to come
waltzing right back in
okay so you know
she’s a good talker or something and she’s like okay
you can come back you know
let’s be a family
again she wants to be a wife now
but back at the Los Angeles mansion
now that Luis
is gone jacob’s
daughter she decides that she is going to
search the house
up and down
and search for any type of clues
just anything
okay evidence
something that
will help her figure out what the heck just happened
so the daughter is
searching the
house and on September 23rd 1920
she finds Jacobs or her father’s decomposing body
he’s tied up in like a number of
courts he’s
wrapped up in
blankets and he’s buried in the basement mm hmm
but he’s buried like in the basement
under some stairs
I couldn’t figure out if it was like in the dirt
maybe the dirt was preventing people from
going down there
cause he wasn’t necessarily in the dirt he was
under the stairs
my understanding
either way he was dead
okay so the autopsy
report determined that
Jacob was shot in the head and strangled so
Louis is obviously
their number one suspect so the police try and
track her down they go out to
Denver to question her so they
knock knock
on louis’s door
and they’re asking her hey
did you have anything to do with
jacob’s death
and she has
a number of theories as what
might have happened to him
one of them involved the mysterious Spanish
woman who shot
Jacob causing his arm to be amputated
it must have been
her but no one was buying that theory anymore because
jacob’s body
still had his arms and his legs attached so
no and then Louise
tries to change her story
again this time
claiming that
Jacob isn’t dead at all
that the body they’ve
found inside the mansion oh nae nae that was not him
that was a double
who Jacob had killed himself
she’s like playing clue or something I don’t know
she thinks this is a murder mystery dinner now at
first when I was researching this I was like let me
guess they believed her
right because like everyone seems to believe her
anyway so police are like what do you mean double
what do you mean
does he have a twin or a look alike or something and
Louis she had no answer for that specific question of
theirs so with that being said they placed her
under arrest for first degree murder and
dragged her ass back to LA now here’s what you probably
think that those stories gonna end no
it does not it goes on and on and on
on and on and
on but okay
so Louise she does get arrested and she does get put on
trial for the murder of
Jacob Denton
which starts in January of 1921
and it was the hot gossip at the time
there was thousands of people lining up on the
Daily to watch Louise
walk into the courthouse
and see what she looked like what she was wearing and
stuff cause they were interested
they were super interested newspapers
were reporting on this
trial and they were selling like
crazy so the
media was loving it
cause it was selling newspapers
there was just something
about Louise that had many people captivated
anyhow so the trial
would only last
for a few weeks and then in February of 1921
Louise she was convicted of
first degree murder and she was sentenced to life
in prison now
great beautiful we love that she deserves it
but there’s more to the
story okay so during her
trial and her
first 2 years of her life sentence
louise’s husband remember him Richard
he stayed super
loyal and supportive he pretty much
was the only one who believed that she was innocent
I mean she wasn’t
but she believed that she was Louise
she told him straight up listen
you should move on
okay I’ve been convicted
of murder you can be free to divorce me and remarry
like find yourself a nice
woman you deserve it this is what she’s telling
and now this was
heartbreaking to him but he agreed
and he was like fine I’ll get a divorce but
he tells Louise
that he he was
gonna wait forever for her
cause he knew one day she’s probably
gonna get released and then they
could be together again
there was just no
other woman out there for him
and Louise was like yeah yeah
yeah move or lose it bud
now something
super strange happens let me tell you
because as soon as the 2 of them divorced
Louise she stopped answering richard’s
letters and she refused to see him when he came to
visit her at prison
well first of all Louise
claimed that
poor Richard felt so guilty over her conviction
and the fact that they’re not together
that he committed suicide
I was trying to figure this one out
because we know that Louise didn’t do it
because she was in jail
great right
so my thought was like
maybe she put someone up to it but like why would she
you know I was like well
maybe he did commit suicide
but what are the odds that
every freaking
ex of yours
commits suicide like what is this
you know this lady is deadly
they are dropping
I don’t get it I just I don’t know but
maybe he did and then I feel bad
cause I’m like yeah
okay so Louise
she’s using this to her advantage
she’s telling
others in jail that no man can resist her charm
and she’s just kind of
using this to brag
about it all of
their husband’s
deaths I guess I
guess maybe people are impressed by it I don’t
really know
well get this so Louis
started her sentence at San Quentin
State Prison before being
transferred to like a
women’s institution
in California it wasn’t far
but she’s there for a
while and she plays the
role of like this perfect prisoner she’s like oh my God
hi I’m so happy to be here
like using her
southern charm to make
those around her just
think she’s such a splendid
little lady
she maintained the prison’s flower garden
she worked as a dental assistant
even wrote for the prison newspaper
now she would end up serving 18 years
before Louise was paroled for good behavior in 1939
yeah she’s paroled for good behavior
at the age of 59
so she gets out
okay so there was this
woman named
Jesse Marcy
she was like
lobbying for
Louis Louis
louise’s release when Louis
was released wow
she would go into
jesse’s custody
but the deal was that Luis was
going to be
jesse’s living
housekeeper okay
I don’t know the
connection between the 2 but it
doesn’t matter because get this
it’s like a
sweet deal but
Jessie ends up
dying of natural
causes like not even a week
after Luis is released
I think she’s awkward
to Fauna in
everyone’s ass
she has to be how is she doing this natural
causes where
either she is killing them
or people just are
dropping like
flies around her
I mean that’s not a coincidence
come on Luis
then she moves in with her probation officer
her name is Emily
so Emily takes her in
and Luis was like okay I’ll work as your
housekeeper
and also as your nurse
and take care of her
cause she’s a little bit
older so this arrangement it didn’t last long
because Emily died of a freaking
heart attack in 1943
I mean come
on why is everyone who comes in contact with this
woman just dropping dead it’s so bizarre
for some reason police
never looked further into
these deaths
like since they died of natural
causes there wasn’t much to look into
but it’s also because this is the the thought here
that the local police they didn’t look into Louise
is like Pastor
Louise at all because
they had no idea that she was on parole in the
first place
because when she was released from prison Louise
changed her name to Anna
Lee yeah she
changed her name
to Anna Lee
lordy lordy lordy
Louise just has
everything all figured out she’s one step
ahead so after
Emily died Luis
found another living arrangement
for herself this time it was with an old prison friend
named Margaret
and her husband Arthur
Logan now Margaret and Louise
were good friends
and she always thought Luis was innocent in the
first place
Margaret did
she thought Louise was innocent just a
sweetest little lady
so when she
heard that she was in
trouble she
wanted to help her out so she invites Louise to come
live with her
she was like
hey if you move in with me can you be my living
housekeeper in
trade you know
but also if she
could be a nurse
to Arthur who was suffering from dementia
so she’s like can you be his nurse
I’m sure you can imagine
where this is
gonna go but as we have
learned something is off with this
woman and Louis
starts telling neighbors
these rumors
she’s like hey Arthur
yeah he goes into terrible fits of rage
and he beats his wife Margaret
every night
she’s telling
everyone this
and she’s telling them this rumor
and I don’t know why well it’ll make
sense later
she’s telling
everyone this and they’re like oh my God like that
sounds so awful and
Louis is telling
the neighbors like don’t don’t mention it to them or
Margaret because like
you’ll just really upset them
so they’re believing it they’re like oh my gosh
poor Margaret
is just in an abusive relationship okay so once
again in June of 1944 Margaret
disappears nobody’s seen her nobody has any clue
where she she went
nothing 3 days
after Margaret goes
missing Louise
decides to put
Arthur in a
state hospital
oh yeah she
wheels them
right off the
state hospital
I think this
woman is the actual
devil Louis
moves herself full time into the house
my house now I cannot believe her
so of course the neighbors
are asking what happened to the Margaret and Arthur
and Louis is telling them like
oh my God you guys
Arthur attacked Margaret bit off her nose
and she’s so disfigured
that she’s like too embarrassed to come outside
mm hmm that’s what she tells them the
cycle continues
but okay look
right before Margaret went missing
Louise had met a new guy he’s a banker his name was Lee
and she met him
and they went on to get married
you know how
she does it so she left out that tiny detail
about being in jail for murder though
so he really had no idea
plus he thought her name was Anna
so they’ve been dating Margaret
goes missing
and Lee had met Margaret once before
and he’s asking Louise like hey
what happened to Margaret like it’s been a while
where she been you know just asking
just genuinely asking
so Louise repeats the same
story that she’s been
feeding to the neighbors
but adds that
after the attack Margaret went into isolation
and preparation
for plastic surgery
on her nose
now it’s weird because Lee and Louise are
actually living inside of Margaret and arthur’s home
for about 6
months and he
doesn’t further wonder like what the hell is going on
where is Margaret
like he doesn’t know or question or I don’t
now it’s believed that he didn’t question anything
like what was
going on because Louise was 14 checks and
spending Margaret and arthur’s
money on herself
and her new hubby
Lee like you want anything I’ll buy it for you
so maybe that’s why he didn’t care too much and didn’t
keep asking
I I don’t know but
that’s what it’s believed
to be true so
the spending spree is cut
short when Arthur dies
in December of 1944
and the bank notices that
there are still
checks being cashed with his forge
signature and that
doesn’t make
sense because Arthur
passed away hmm
so how is a dead guy
signing checks
right so the bank teller calls up the police
who naturally
head over to
where Margaret and arthur’s
house where Louise
and Lee are living
and they’re investigating they’re just doing
their questioning
they’re like hey
you know we
gotta call your fortune
some checks whatever
and they’re just getting a
funny feeling
about the couple
no arrests was made
I think Louise was telling the
police it must be Margaret but margaret’s out of town
so the police was like okay we’ll come back in a couple
of weeks when Margaret is back and we’ll talk to her
so the police come back a couple of weeks
later to further ask questions and maybe even
speak to Margaret at this
point but margaret’s been missing for 6 months
so they ask Luis
like okay you know what can we just look around the
house this is just
weird like what is really
going on here
so they’re looking around the house
and in the backyard they discover
a shallow grave
it’s under an avocado tree
and in the shallow
grave is margaret’s decomposing body
Louis is immediately arrested
this time only taking a couple of
hours for Louis to be
charged with murder
again so the autopsy report determined
that Margaret had been shot in the back of the neck
and she also had a fractured
skull so during questioning Luis
tells police
that Margaret was actually attacked
and shot to
death by her
husband Arthur
during one of his anger fits
of rage and that she had been telling the neighbors
about it and if they didn’t believe her
they should go ask the neighbors because they knew all
about arthur’s
abuse honestly
I’ll give her a
point there
cause that’s
kinda smart
that’s kinda
smart I’ll give her that
she’s literally
thinking ahead
you don’t see that too
often with most killers like this much
so Louise admits to police that in a
panic she had buried Margaret
and didn’t report the incident because she was afraid
that they would charge
her with murder because of her previous convictions
or you know
because maybe she murdered her
but she insisted
she was innocent she did not kill her
so louise’s husband Lee
he was also arrested and
charged with murder
and like his wife
he also insisted that he was innocent
the murder charge
against him was
dropped because there wasn’t enough evidence
so Lee was released but
his freedom was
short lived because
guess what happens
the very next day
Lee jumps to his
death off the 9th
floor of an office
building in Los Angeles
you guys this is too strange
because I don’t know
I don’t know if people are just offing themselves
I’m not trying to be funny but
if that’s the case or if they are being killed by
Louis Louise seem to be with in police custody so
maybe he did I don’t know
I just don’t
understand how this is happening I really don’t like
are they killing themselves or are they being killed
I wanna say that they’re being killed
but I don’t know anyway so for the
first time Luis actually shows some emotion when she
learns about her new husband’s
death and she openly cries
and she tells reporters
media and she felt she was the one to
blame for lee’s
death that’s because you are
I wonder if
there’s some life insurance she’s collecting on
these guys or what the deal really was because
again this is just bizarre
so louise’s
3rd and final murder
trial begins on
April 23rd 1945 they get some
media attention
but nobody really cares as much as they did as like the
first time so the prosecution believe that Louise
killed Margaret in
order to gain control over the
Logan family finances
which makes the most sense
prosecution
thought that Louise got in an argument there
must have been an argument between her and Margaret
after she discovered
a check that Louise had forged
which then led to her
killing Margaret
that’s what they believe
happened and it must have
been a very compelling argument because on May 31st
the jury found Louise guilty
of first degree murder again
but this time Louise received the
death penalty
okay not life in prison
this time she was
gonna be put down no more of her shenanigans
count was said during her sentencing Louise
sat calmly reading a book
of Chinese philosophy called The Importance of Living
and she only
looked up once to make some kind of mocking facial
expression before
going back to her
so over the next several years
Louise attempted to appeal several times she
maintained that she was innocent
but each appeal
failed her day of
execution finally
arrived April 11th
1948 exactly
8 years after she walked out from the
women’s prison the
first time this lady has way too many coincidences
going on in her life huh
anyways Louise tells like
you know her friends in the jail or whatever that she’s
ready she’s
ready to go she calmly like
walks from her cell to the gas chamber
and it was said she was smiling and
she’s like yeah I don’t know yeah and everyone’s just
watching her as she’s
entering the room now she had a really big
crowd of people
watching her
like one of
the most ever I forget how many it was like 80
I wanna say 80 people are
watching her
be put down
which is very unusual
as the guards left the chamber one of them offered a
final farewell saying
goodbye good luck
breathe deep and don’t
fight the gas thanks
and at 10 03 am the deadly gas
pellets dropped
and 10 minutes
later Luis was
declared dead
she was the
second woman in the
state of California to be executed
honestly good
she cost way too much
chaos my God oh my God and that my Friends is the
story of Louise
I don’t even know what her name is because she
changed it what was her name Louise
Pete I don’t even know Louise Pete
great so this
story it totally
sounds fake
it totally does
but it’s a real
story she was
I don’t wanna call her
crazy but she was crazy
something was off I don’t
even have any words because it’s like good there’s no
place for her I’m
sorry girl like you had many chances
oh a lot of chances
and you chose violence
over and over and over
again goodbye
I’m not a big fan of the
death penalty
but in cases like this totally makes
sense you know like she literally
proof that she
doesn’t want change
and women back then seem to be real different
real unique
passionate passionate killers I must say anyways
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