Posted on 01/10/2020 5:19:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
UPDATE 8:20 A.M. Margaret Rudin, 76, was just seen being released from a prison in Las Vegas after serving nearly 20 years.
Attorney Greg Mullanax gave a statement on behalf of Rudin, saying that she is happy to be out of prison and plans to go to Illinois to be with her family and is looking forward to getting to know them. Her attorney also talked about Rudin's trial, calling it a fraud and a sham and insisting that his client is innocent. He also said that they are hoping that the federal court will grant her a new trial to prove her innocence.
MULTI-PART SERIES: Some terrified as infamous killer Margaret Rudin set to be released from prison
EARLIER STORY Margaret Rudin, who is known as the Black Widow, could be released from prison today.
Rudin, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee, was married 4 times before she met Ronald Rudin at the First Church of Religious Science in Las Vegas. The couple was married on Sept. 11, 1987.
According to friends and family, the couple had a very stormy relationship and Rudin was insanely jealous.
Joe Bartels ✔ @Joe_Bartels RUDIN WATCH 2020: Infamous convicted killer Margaret Rudin, dubbed the Black Widow, could be released any second from prison. We have every enterance and exit covered at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Facility. @KTNV
View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter 5 7:56 AM - Jan 10, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Joe Bartels's other Tweets Ronald Rudin was reported missing on Dec. 19, 1994, when he did not show up for work. His body was discovered Jan. 21, 1995, near Lake Mojave. He had been more than once in the head.
Police found blood spatter in the couple's home and a blood-soaked mattress. A gun was found in 1996 in Lake Mead.
A murder indictment was for Margaret was handed down in April 1997, but she had already left the state. She spent 2-1/2 years in hiding until she was arrested in November 1999 in Massachusetts.
She was brought back to Las Vegas to face trial, which began in March 2001. She was found guilty on May 2, 2001, and sentenced to life in prison in August of that year.
Rudin has challenged her conviction several times over the year without success. In October 2019, she was granted parole.
13 Action News investigator Joe Bartels and photojournalist Rudy Garcia produced several special reports about Rudin. Click here to read the entire story.
Never tell a black widow “eat me!”
She’s rehabilitated. Just in time to vote Democrat in the election.
she should die in prison like any other murderer.
ideally i wish all of them a speedy trial and execution for clear cut solid evidence cases. like a trail within a week and execution the next week.
She probably wants another husband.
I remember this story on one of the crime shows.
Are you volunteering?
I agree with that. Why should we pay to put these people up for years and years?
She loved him to death.
Well, is she single?
Hey Laz, your great opportunity! Hehehe...
I don’t recall ever hearing about this; but it’s an interesting story. I don’t find any real information as to why she was finally granted parole, but there has seemed to be an issue of incompetent representation in the original trial brought up by her lawyers throughout the appeals process.
(Just as a ‘human experience’ thing, I’m wondering what it’s like to get out of prison after 20 years, and see mountains in the distance...)
http://murderpedia.org/female.R/r/rudin-margaret.htm
As I always say of my ex:
‘If I had killed him back when he deserved it, I’d be out of prison by now!’ ;)
But once you start, can you stop? It might be like potato chips.
Could you have used him to fertilize your garden?
Give her a new trial, convict her again, and then give her a new sentence with no credit for time served.
“I don’t find any real information as to why she was finally granted parole”
Don’t know. But a lot of times paroles are given to elderly prisoners so that the state won’t have to pay for their increasing medical bills (which can run into hundreds of thousands).
They aren’t considered a threat to anyone anymore, so they are simply shoved out of the system.
Don’t know if that’s true in this case, but it happens a lot.
people often get paroled fromn horrible crimes because they are older. it shouldn’t make any difference.
Well, I’d like to know exactly what thinking went into the decision to parole her.
(Do you think she’s going to seduce another man, and kill him?)
i dont really vare what she intends to do. I would not have paroled her.
As I’ve stated, I don’t know anything about this case.
But since there has been a lot of controversy over her original conviction, aren’t you even interested in looking at the record?
(A lot of people think that Trump should be convicted of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ - but they have also chosen to ignore the evidence - or obvious lack of such...)
I think it’s important to become actually educated on issues, before making decisions and pronouncing about them.
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