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Sharon Kinne (born Sharon Elizabeth Hall, November 30, 1939 – January 21, 2022) was an American woman convicted in Mexico of homicide and long suspected in two additional deaths in Independence, Missouri, during the 1960s. She became the subject of what is described as the longest outstanding felony arrest warrant in Kansas City, Missouri history.
On March 19, 1960, Sharon's husband James Kinne was found fatally shot in the head in the couple's Independence home. Sharon said the couple's two-year-old daughter, Danna, had accidentally shot him while playing with his firearm; police, unable to disprove this, initially ruled the death accidental. On May 27, 1960, the body of Patricia Jones, a 23-year-old file clerk and wife of one of Sharon's boyfriends, Walter Jones, was found shot multiple times in a secluded area near Independence by Sharon and another boyfriend, John Boldizs. Investigators determined Sharon had contacted Jones the day she disappeared and was the last known person to speak with her. Sharon was arrested on May 31, 1960, and charged with Jones' murder; the death of James Kinne was reopened as a homicide charge as well.
Sharon was tried separately for each death. In June 1961 she was acquitted of murdering Patricia Jones after the jury found the prosecution's circumstantial case insufficient. In January 1962 she was convicted of murdering James Kinne and sentenced to life imprisonment, but the Missouri Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 1963 over jury-selection procedural issues. A second trial in March 1964 ended in mistrial after a juror's connection to a prosecutor's law partner was discovered. A third trial in July 1964 ended in a hung jury, deadlocked seven to five in favor of acquittal. Sharon was released on bond pending a fourth trial scheduled for October 1964.
Before that trial, in September 1964, Sharon traveled to Mexico with Francis Samuel Pugliese, traveling under the name "Jeanette Pugliese." On the night of September 18, 1964, she shot and killed Francisco Paredes Ordoñez, a Mexican-born American citizen, at a hotel in Mexico, and wounded a hotel employee who responded to the gunfire. Ballistics later linked the weapon used to the gun that had killed Patricia Jones in 1960, though Sharon could not be retried for that acquitted charge. She was convicted of Ordoñez's homicide in October 1965 and sentenced to ten years, later increased to thirteen years on appellate review. When she failed to appear for her rescheduled fourth Missouri trial, a warrant was issued for her arrest in October 1964, which remained outstanding.
Sharon escaped from Iztapalapan prison in Mexico City on December 7, 1969, during an unexplained blackout, and an intensive manhunt failed to locate her. In February 1970 she married James Thomas Glabus in Los Angeles, and by 1973 the couple had relocated to Taber, Alberta, Canada, where Sharon lived under the name "Diedra Grace Glabus," later "Diedra Ell" after a third marriage, running a motel and later a real estate business. She died in Taber on January 21, 2022. Her identity was confirmed by Jackson County, Missouri investigators via fingerprint matching in January 2025, more than 50 years after her disappearance.
