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It’s been more than 75 years since 26-year-old beauty Winnie Ruth Judd allegedly murdered her two friends in Phoenix in 1931. She carried their bodies in trunks for disposal, garnering her the nickname, “The Trunk Murderess.” On the anniversary of the killings, Oct. 16, Los Angeles-based writer/director Scott Coblio brings his movie about the case, Murderess: The Winnie Ruth Judd Story, to Phoenix’s The Trunk Space. The venue is appropriate, considering it is partly named after those infamous trunks.
Coblio said he first learned about Judd when he read about her as a child, and he felt compelled to bring her story to the screen.
“I grew up reading this book and looking at the pictures, and it just seemed like a storybook to me,” Coblio, 43, said. “It seemed like Alice in Wonderland, only a true Alice in Wonderland, and a little bit more gritty and horrible.”
In the movie, viewers learn Judd’s story, which includes her having...
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