Here's a mugshot that commands your attention and the story behind it doesn't disappoint. This is Laura Belle Devlin of Newark, Ohio. In December of 1946 she killed her husband Thomas. Two weeks later, thanks in part to the keen eye and inquisitive nature of their mailman, Mr. C.G. Butcher, she was arrested for the crime. In fact, the mailman drove her to the police station himself.
Once there the 72-year-old Mrs. Devlin admitted to killing her husband with her bare hands after he threw a plate at her, then she dismembered his body using a sickle and handsaw. She was still in the process of burning his remains in the home's 2 stoves when arrested. Mrs. Devlin was easily indicted and believed to be suffering from senile psychosis.
Mrs. Devlin was transferred to the Lima State Hospital for a 30 day period of observation. One week later, on March 29th 1947, she was dead from pneumonia.
How did the mailman know Laura Devlin was lying about her husband's whereabouts? A letter Mrs. Devlin produced, as evidence that her husband died while visiting relatives in PA, had no stamp and the postmark was drawn by hand.
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