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🎙 Episode 104: Sharon Kinne — “La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act”
Part 4 of a multi-part series

December 1969. A blackout sweeps through Iztapalapa Prison in Mexico City.
Within minutes, one of the world’s most elusive inmates — La Pistolera — is gone.
No gunfire. No alarms. No chase.

For years, rumors cross borders: sightings in Guatemala, whispers of new lovers, even claims of another murder.
But while the world chased her legend, Sharon Kinne quietly built a new identity in small-town Canada.
Under the name Diedra Glabus, she became a motel owner, real estate agent, church volunteer, wife, grandmother — a woman no one questioned, and no one truly knew.

It wasn’t luck that kept her free.
It was perception.
The same charm that disarmed jurors and detectives now blended her seamlessly into the rhythms of small-town life.

When she died in 2022, her obituary remembered a kind neighbor.
Three years later, in 2025, a fingerprint scan told the truth:
Diedra Glabus was Sharon Kinne — the longest-active fugitive in Missouri history.

From Missouri to Mexico to Manitoba, this is the final chapter of La Pistolera —
the woman who turned escape into an identity and lived half a century inside the myth she built.

📍 Locations: Independence, Missouri | Mexico City, Mexico | Manitoba, Canada
📅 Key Dates: 1969 prison escape → 1970 reinvention → 2022 death → 2025 fingerprint match
👥 Central Figures: Sharon Kinne / Diedra Glabus, Patricia Jones’s family, Francis Pugliese, Francisco Ordoñez, Missouri prosecutors, RCMP investigators
🧠 Themes: Reinvention, perception as survival, gender bias in justice, the mythology of escape, truth emerging through technology
📖 Series Conclusion Preview:
Every myth ends the same way — with fact.
Next week: a full postmortem episode tracing the case’s cultural footprint and how Sharon’s story reshaped the public’s idea of female killers who “don’t look like criminals.”

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Official Sources Used:
– State v. Sharon Kinne, Supreme Court of Missouri, 372 S.W.2d 62 (1963) — appellate ruling and procedural context
– Missouri State Highway Patrol & FBI case summaries (1960–1970) — fugitive documentation and warrant records
– Murderpedia: Sharon Kinne case file and international arrest timeline
– James Hays, I’m Just an Ordinary Girl: The Sharon Kinne Story — biographical reference
– The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1978) — case overview and myth analysis
– Canadian press archives (1970s–2020s): Manitoba obituaries and municipal records for “Diedra Glabus”
– Associated Press, Kansas City Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Globe and Mail — cross-border reporting (1969–2025)
– RCMP and FBI digital archival statements confirming 2025 fingerprint match
– Candice DeLong, forensic commentary on deception and gender bias in violent offenders (Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery)
– Susan Hatters Friedman & Michael H. Friedman,