A murderous fugitive who hid from US and Mexican authorities in Alberta of a small town for decades was a former bridge frame that reproduces banana bread, according to his former friends and neighbors.
Dee Gabus, as was known in Taber, Alta., It was actually Sharon Kinne, one of the most wanted criminals in the United States.
Kinne was judged by three murders: her husband, her lover’s wife and a Mexican man who met in a bar, in the city of Kansas and Mexico City before escaping from a Mexican prison in 1969, five years in a sentence 13 years.
The authorities could never locate Kinne after their escape.
At a press conference on Thursday, the Jackson County Sheriff’s office in Missouri said the digital footprint records confirmed that Kinne had been hiding in the south of Alberta.
Friends ‘in shock’
Some of Kinne’s old friends and neighbors had gathered for a bridge afternoon in the center of local seniors in Taber when they learned the news.
“I can’t believe it. I’m in shock,” said Vena Vandersteen. “That is crazy.”
Vandersteen said that Gabus was a talented needle artist who once gave him a handmade quilt as a gift.
Gabus was also a volunteer of the Food Bank, which often provided them with homemade banana bread.
The group of women learned to play Bridge together, taught by Phyllis Katrusik.
“She came here to play Bridge with us and liked it,” Katrusik said. “And we were always eager to get players, we are rounding the players whenever we can.”
Katrusik also reacted to Bombshell’s news that her friend and neighbor was a convicted murderer, in the authorities’ career.
“How can you deceive the whole world year after year?” He wondered.
Dee Gabus arrived in Taber in 1973 with the husband Jim Glabus. The two possessed the local Taber Motel before working together as real estate agents.
The ladies of the bridge said after Jim died in 1979 at the age of 38, Dee was out of his will and fought it in court.
“We all feel sorry and we wanted to help her,” Katrusik said.
Husband died at 38
According to newspaper clippings of the time, Jim Glabus died from complications of diabetes and alcoholism.
A few years after his death, Dee Gabus married a man named Willie Ell. The couple was together for 30 years until Ell’s death in 2011 at the age of 79.
It is unknown if any of Glabus Alberta husbands was aware of his criminal past.
The mayor of Taber, Andrew Prokop, certainly had no idea, according to his spokesman.
Meghan Brennan told CBC News that the mayor would not comment on the situation.
Funeral fingerprints
At the Kansas City press conference, the officials thanked the Taber Police and the RCMP for their investigation cooperation.
The Canadian police were used to get help in 2023, after Jackson County Sheriffs received an anonymous tip that the fugitive Sharon Kinne lived in the south of Alberta as Dee Glabus.
“It happens that someone had that advice and was not willing to free him until after his death,” said the sergeant. Dustin Love.
Love said that Dee Gabus was stuck in fingerprints at the funeral after his death.
He cut the records and was able to confirm the council: Dee Gabus was Sharon Kinne, one of the most wanted people in the United States.
Back on the bridge table, Vandersteen reviews a life lesson that he taught to his children.
“I always tell my children, the truth will make you free one day,” he said.
“Do what you do in life, you will discover it.”
