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🎙 Episode 102: Sharon Kinne — “The Widow and the Lover’s Wife”
Part 2 of a multi-part series

May 1960. Independence, Missouri. Patricia Jones leaves work after a phone call, telling coworkers she’ll be right back. She never returns. Hours later, her car is found abandoned. Days later, her body is discovered in a lovers’ lane field—shot four times with a .22.

And in the background, a young widow named Sharon Kinne was already drawing whispers. Just two months earlier, she had buried her husband under suspicious circumstances. Now she was entangled with Patricia’s husband, Walter.

In Part 2 of Sharon Kinne’s story, host Sidney Smith takes you through the affair, the disappearance, and the first murder trial that stunned Missouri. From friends recalling Patricia’s devotion to her two daughters, to jurors so captivated by Sharon that one asked for her autograph, this episode explores how charm, bias, and missing evidence left a grieving family without justice.

📍 Location: Independence, Missouri
📅 Key Dates: March–June 1960 (James’s death, Patricia’s disappearance, Sharon’s arrest) | June 1961 (trial & acquittal)
👥 Central Figures: Sharon Kinne, James Kinne, Walter Jones, Patricia Jones, John Boldizs
🧠 Themes: Jealousy, gender bias in justice, charm as a weapon, community perception vs. evidence
📖 Next Episode Preview: Mexico. A new lover. And a gunshot in a hotel room that would make Sharon an international fugitive.

🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
🎙 Produced in partnership with Sidney Smith Cre8tiv, LLC and the You Hear Good Things podcast network
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Official Sources Used:
– State v. Sharon Kinne, Supreme Court of Missouri, 372 S.W.2d 62 (1963) — trial records, testimony, jury instructions
– James Patrick Quinn & Martha Sperry Hickman, defense briefs (1960–63)
– Murderpedia: Sharon Kinne case file
– James Hays, I’m Just an Ordinary Girl: The Sharon Kinne Story
– The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1978)
– Candice DeLong, commentary on female psychopathy (Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery)
– Contemporary reporting: Kansas City Star, Associated Press (1960–1964)
– Local Independence oral histories and retrospective features (Missouri Historical Society collections)
– Susan Hatters Friedman & Michael H. Friedman, Just as Deadly (2020)