Emma LeDoux

 
Emma Theresa Cole LeDoux was born on (September 10, 1875), to parents Thomas Jefferson Cole and Mary Ann Gardner of Pine Grove, California. Emma was the eldest of eight children. She has also married a total of five times. Her first husband, Charles Barrett, divorced her. Her second husband, William Stanley Williams, died under suspicious circumstances, and she benefitted from a large life insurance policy she had on his life.
Trunk murder of 1906.
On March 24, 1906, law requirement authorities were called to a grain warehouse in Stockton, CA, after station workers noticed a trunk was emitting an aggravating scent. At the point when officials opened the holder, they found the body of Albert N. McVicar, the third husband of LeDoux. Subsequent to a post-mortem examination on McVicar's body, it was decided he had died of a morphine overdose. The specialist then put the dead man's remaining parts on open show at the funeral home. 
At the point when law enforcement found LeDoux, they discovered that her current spouse had died of heart disease when he was just 30 years of age, leaving her with $10,000 in life insurance. They soon discovered she had married Jean LeDoux in 1905, despite being married to McVicar, furnishing her with a motive to murder the man who was discovered dead in the trunk. 
A month after McVicar's body was found, LeDoux was indicted for homicide in the first degree on April 18, 1906. LeDoux was condemned to death, making her the first woman to get capital punishment in California. 
Her trial was the biggest news besides the Great Earthquake of 1906, which actually postponed her trial. In the end, she was convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be hanged. Her attorney filed an appeal on the basis that the jury was biased, as well as the judge not allowing her to testify.
In 1910, the appeal was granted, but she had become so ill she felt that she could not handle another trial so she notified her attorney that she wanted to plead guilty and get it over with. She was sent to San Quentin where she served 10 years and eventually was paroled in 1920. She did marry her fifth and final husband Fred Crackbon, but she outlived him as well. She didn't inherit anything from the last husband's death and became poor. 
Doing what she could to make money, she found herself once again on the wrong end of the law. After violating the terms of her parole or probation several times, she landed herself back in prison for the last time in 1931. She died aged 65 on July 6, 1941, at the women's prison at Tehachapi, Kern County, California. She was buried in an unmarked grave at the Union City Cemetery in Bakersfield. 