Offbeat Oregon: Oregonians played prominent role in 1930s' most horrific murder
OREGON DIVORCEE AGNES Anne âAnnieâ LeRoi arrived in Phoenix in the first few months of 1931 with her best friend and roommate, schoolteacher Hedvig âSammyâ Samuelson. They were climate refugees: Sammy had tuberculosis, and at the time the only cure for âconsumptionâ was a dry climate and rest. Back then, many patients with TB waited until they were so far gone that the climate couldnât save them; essentially, they moved to Arizona to die. Sammy wasnât one of them; her case was mild. But, although she didnât know it, she, too, was moving to Arizona ...
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