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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1936
Page
6
Mary Busch James, once a beauty salon worker, is linked to a grisly case that drew Los Angeles police into a complex plot unraveling. Investigators pursue leads tying her to a sequence of events surrounding the crime.
James and Charles Hope plotted to kill Mary Busch James using diamondback rattlesnakes bought for the plan. Mary James died by bathtub drowning after a snake bite failed. Authorities linked the barber James to previous wife deaths as investigations unfolded.
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