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| children = 1 | motive = Financial gain | victims = 3+ | date = | country = United States | states = California | locations = Los Angeles | weapons = .32 S&W | apprehended = December 20, 1944 (Logan murder) | imprisoned = San Quentin State Prison }} Louise Peete (September 20, 1880 – April 11, 1947) was a convicted American murderer. Peete was first convicted of murdering wealthy mining engineer Jacob C. Denton in 1920 and was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in April 1939. In May 1945, she was convicted of murdering her employer, Margaret Logan, and sentenced to death. She was executed in April 1947 making her the second, and one of only four women, to be executed in the California gas chamber. ==Early life== Peete was born Lofie Louise Preslar in Bienville, Louisiana. Her father was a prominent and wealthy newspaper publisher. Peete would later say that she "came from cultured, educated people. My parents were not delinquents, and did not rear delinquent children." She attended a private school in New Orleans but was expelled at the age of 15 for stealing from her classmates and engaging in promiscuous behavior.〔 In 1903, she married a traveling salesman named Henry Bosley; he committed suicide in 1906 after discovering Peete in bed with another man. After Bosley's death, Peete relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana where she worked as a high-class prostitute and stole money from her clients.〔 In 1911, Peete made her way to Boston and changed her name to "Louise M. Gould". She then began claiming that she was a 19-year-old Dallas heiress named R. H. Rosley. As Rosley, Peete said that she had been confined to a convent by her family and had run away. She ingratiated herself into several wealthy Boston families with her beauty and charm and managed to convince one family to take her in. She then proceed to charge items to the family at some of Boston's most expensive stores. She also stole money from the family's friends and employees. After Peete's true identity was discovered, police allowed her to leave town to avoid embarrassing the family.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Peete」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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