Monster Mother: Sharon Kinne, convicted killer confirmed dead by FBI
Jan 17, 2025
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Over 60 years have passed since Independence, Missouri woman, Sharon Kinne, was found guilty of murdering her husband in Jackson County, Missouri.
Now, rumor has it, she’s dead.
No local Jackson County law enforcement-based agencies were able to provide any confirmation Friday, but the FBI confirmed to FOX4’s Hannah King, a woman under the name of "Diedra Glabus", who died in 2022, had fingerprints that matched, those of Sharon Kinne.
"All I know about her is what I've read,” Independence resident Glen Hughes shared Friday.
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Glen Hughes lives in the Independence neighborhood where Kinne was accused of killing her husband. Back then, it was a part of Jackson County and not within the City of Independence.
If you don't know story of who Sharon Kinne was or what she’s accused of, just about the only way to hear about it now, would be through archives or special collections.
Sharon Kinne died in her early 80s, while allegedly living under another name, and in another country.
It’s through historical records, like the Missouri Valley Special Collection at the Kansas City Public Library, where you can still find the story of Sharon Kinne.
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Independence woman, Sharon Kinne was found guilty of killing her husband James Kinne in 1960. Months later, a woman named Patricia Jones disappeared. Jones, was discovered dead just outside of Independence City Limits. Patricia Jones was the wife of a man that Sharon Kinne was supposedly seeing.
In January 1962, Sharon Kinne was convicted of murdering her husband, but that conviction was overturned one year later, due to improper jury selection. There were many trials in-between, including one where she suspected of murdering Patricia Jones, but while on bond – even while being named in two murders – she fled to Mexico. In Mexico, she found herself accused of murdering a man in a motel. Reports show, the gun used to kill Patricia Jones in Missouri was found in Kinne’s hotel room, in Mexico.
She escaped a Mexican prison in 1969. Sharon Kinne was never seen or heard from again.
According to kchistory.org, “Kinne was accused of shooting her husband (a death she had blamed on their two-year-old child) after she was suspected and tried--but not found guilty--of killing Patricia Jones, wife of the car salesman from whom Kinne had purchased a vehicle with her late husband's life insurance money and with whom she was romantically involved. Kinne was convicted in 1962 of killing her husband, but the conviction was overturned because of a jury selection error.
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While out on bond, Kinne traveled to Mexico, killed another man, was found guilty and incarcerated. She escaped from the Mexican prison on December 7, 1969, and has never been found.”
FOX4 learned from the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office there were thousands of documents on Kinne’s case, but none were available to FOX4 by the time this story aired Friday.
FOX4 will continue to update this story and more information becomes available.