Louise Peete

Louise Peete 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.

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 offor 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 Bosleys death, Peete relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana where she worked as a highclass prostitute and stole money from her clients.

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