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Wanted for murder in Missouri and Mexico, police say 'Pistol Packin' Mama' hid in Alberta for decades
U.S. officials confirm fugitive Sharon Kinne was living in Taber as Dee Glabus

Meghan Grant · CBC News · Posted: Jan 30, 2025 6:35 PM EST | Last Updated: January 30

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What happened to Sharon Kinne? U.S. officials confirm the case is closed. As the CBC's Helen Pike reports, Taber, Alta., residents are learning who their neighbour Dee Glabus really was.

Fifty-five years after Missouri murderer Sharon Kinne escaped from a Mexican prison, American authorities confirm the fugitive hid for decades in a small Alberta town. ... On Thursday, Jackson County Sheriffs confirmed that Kinne, who was linked to three murders in two countries, had been hiding out three hours south of Calgary, in the town of Taber, for 49 years until her death in 2022 at the age of 81.

Kinne had been living under the name Diedra (Dee) Glabus in the sleepy prairie town of about 9,000 residents, best known for its corn crop. ... It's unclear if anyone in the town knew she was a fugitive, on the run from both Mexican and Missouri police. Or if they just knew Glabus as a bridge-playing local realtor and volunteer.

Tip came from Albertan

Capt. Ronda Montgomery with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office told reporters at a Kansas City news conference on Thursday that police received an anonymous tip in December 2023 from someone in Alberta. ... The "courageous" tipster told police that Kinne had been living in Alberta under the name Diedra Glabus, said Montgomery.

Police then subpoenaed the funeral home in Taber. In Canada, in certain circumstances, people can be fingerprinted after they die. ... Investigators finally had the answers that had evaded them for decades.

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Sharon Kinne was first arrested in 1960 by Jackson County sheriffs. She was was charged with the murders of her husband and the wife of a man with whom she was having an affair. (Jackson County Historical Society)

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