Sharon Kinne

Sharon was reportedly a lavish spender who expected finer things out of life, but on James's salary they lived first in a rented home next to his parents' residence, then in a ranch-style house they had built at 17009 East 26th Terrace, Independence.

James worked the night shift at Bendix, and his wife initially filled her days with shopping and, later, with other men.

By the time the couple had a second child, Troy, Sharon was carrying on a regular extramarital affair with a friend from high school, John Boldizs.

Sharon Kinne (born Sharon Elizabeth Hall, November 30, 1939), also known as Jeanette Pugliese and in Mexico as La Pistolera, is an American murderer and prison escapee who was convicted in Mexico for one murder and is suspected of two others in the United States, one for which she was acquitted at trial.

As of 2023, Kinne is the subject of the longest currently outstanding arrest warrant for murder in the history of Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the longest outstanding felony warrants in U.S. history.

Sharon Kinne was born Sharon Elizabeth Hall on November 30, 1939, in Independence, Missouri, to Eugene and Doris Hall.

When she was in junior high, Sharon's parents moved the family to Washington State, but by the time she was aged 15 they had returned to Missouri.

In the summer of 1956, at age 16, Sharon met 22-year-old college student James Kinne at a church function, and the couple dated regularly until James returned to Brigham Young University (BYU) in the fall.

Sharon, reportedly deeply interested in finding a partner with prospects who could take her away from Independence, wrote a letter to James informing him that she was pregnant by him.

James took leave from BYU and returned to Independence, where he married Sharon on October 18, 1956.

The couple's marriage license falsely identified Sharon as being 18 and a widow; though she later refused to address the assertion, Sharon told people at the time that she had been married when she lived in Washington, to a man who later died in a car accident.

The new couple held a second, more formal wedding the following year at the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, after Sharon had completed the process of joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After their wedding, the Kinnes returned to Provo, Utah.

James resumed his studies at BYU, but put them on hold again at the end of the fall semester.

The couple returned to Independence, where both took jobs—Sharon babysat and tended shops, while James worked as an electrical engineer at Bendix Aviation.

Although Sharon claimed to have miscarried the child that had brought about their marriage, she soon became pregnant again.

In the fall of 1957, she gave birth to a girl they named Danna.

On March 19, 1960, Sharon's husband, James Kinne, was found shot in the head.

Sharon claimed that their two-year-old daughter, who had often been allowed to play with James's guns, had accidentally shot him, and police were initially unable to disprove her story.

Then, on May 27, the body of 23-year-old Patricia Jones, a local file clerk, was found by Sharon and a boyfriend in a secluded area.

Investigators found that Jones had been the wife of another of Sharon's boyfriends, and that Jones's husband had tried to break off his affair with Sharon shortly before Jones went missing.

When Sharon admitted to having been the last person to speak to Jones, she was charged with her murder and, upon further investigation of his death, that of James.

By early 1960, James was contemplating divorce, partially because of Sharon's spending habits and partially because he strongly suspected her infidelity.

He spoke to his parents about the possibility of divorce on March 18, 1960, telling them that Sharon had agreed to give him one if he allowed her to keep the house, gave her custody the couple's daughter, and paid her US$1,000 in alimony.

James's parents, devout Mormons, urged him to stay in the marriage.

Sharon, too, was thinking about ways out of the marriage; according to Boldizs, she once offered him US$1,000 to kill her husband, or find someone who would, although he later claimed that she may have been joking.

According to Sharon, on March 19, 1960, at around 5:30 p.m., she heard a gunshot from the direction of the bedroom in which James was sleeping.

Entering the room, she found two-and-a-half-year-old Danna on the bed next to her father.

Danna was holding one of James's guns, a High Standard .22 target pistol, and James was bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound in the back of his head.

Sharon went to trial for Jones's murder in June 1961 and was acquitted.

A January 1962 trial on charges of murdering her husband ended in conviction and a sentence of life imprisonment, but the verdict was overturned because of procedural irregularities.

The case went to a second trial, which ended within days in a mistrial.

A third trial ended in a hung jury in July 1964.

Sharon was released on bond following the third trial and subsequently traveled to Mexico before a scheduled fourth trial could be held in October 1964.

In Mexico, Sharon, claiming to have been acting in self-defense, killed a Mexican-born American citizen named Francisco Parades Ordoñez, who was shot in the back.

An employee of the hotel in which the shooting occurred, responding to the sound of gunshots, was also wounded but survived.

Investigation into the shootings showed that Ordoñez was shot with the same weapon that killed Jones.

Sharon was convicted in October 1965 of the Ordoñez killing and sentenced to ten years in prison, later lengthened to thirteen years after judicial review.

She escaped from the prison during a blackout in December 1969.

Despite extensive manhunts, Sharon Kinne's whereabouts are unknown.