This podcast episode was originally released as part of the Sin City Stories: Vegas True Crime series
Nevada offers the same lax residency requirements to obtain divorce today as it did nearly 100 years ago; a person only has to live in the state for six weeks before being eligible to for a divorce.
But not too long after Nevada gained a reputation as the place to go for a quickie divorce, Las Vegas was the scene of a brutal public murder on the steps of a law office in a tale involving domestic violence, the death of a child, and a desperate insanity plea to avoid the gas chamber.
To learn more about other true crime tales from the darker side of Las Vegas history, visit Mayhem In The Desert.
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