Laz, what say ye?
Regards,
Posted on 04/11/2023 8:44:23 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Louise Peete died in the Caliornia gas chamber on this date in 1947.
Stock of “cultured, educated people” — her words — she turned teenage delinquent, got kicked out of her private school, and commenced a colorful career as an itinerant prostitute and scam artist. Her gallantries — and larcenies — are supposed to have driven two early husbands to suicide, though given her subsequent career one can’t help but wonder.
Lofie Louise Preslar (as she was born) or Louise Gould (as she came to style herself) got the surname by which she is best known from a Denver salesman named Richard Peete. Though this pair fought wantonly and soon separated, Louise still bore his name when her wealthy lover Jacob Denton mysteriously went missing, days after Louise moved into his Los Angeles mansion. Eventually, he turned up … under the floorboards. Louise had been signing checks in his name, and when her bad forgeries were noticed concocted a cockamamie alibi about a “Spanish woman” who had got the man’s arm amputated....
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Fascinating
wow....
I agree
WOW0
Never heard this story before. Amazing!!
Guilty
Did she self-identify as a “tiger”?
I think I read about her in the book 88 Men and 2 Women, by Clinton Duffy.
Laz, what say ye?
Regards,
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