Traveling with friends can be murder. Agnes LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson, two of Winnie Ruth Judd’s girlfriends, found that out the hard way. Judd, after offing them in Phoenix, stuffed the two into a ...

PHOENIX — Monday marks the anniversary of one of the most morbid crimes in Phoenix history: The case of Winnie Ruth Judd and the infamous Phoenix trunk murders. The story begins Oct. 16, 1931. Judd ...

After nearly a century, questions remain over why Winnie Ruth Judd killed Hedvig Samuelson and stuffed her body in a suitcase. Winnie Ruth Judd surrenders to authorities in connection to the deaths of ...

Every state has one crime case that through the decades never seems to fade away. It's revisited over and over as new evidence comes to light, as it's passed down to the next generation at the family ...

The 1931 murder of 24-year-old Hedvig "Sammy" Samuelson from White Earth, N.D., deeply affected her kid brother. Arnold Samuelson, who was five years younger than his sister, was an aspiring writer.