Perpetrator
Kathryn Kelly
- Born
- 18 March 1904
- Died
- 1985, aged about 81
- Record
- Wikidata Q53747712 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Urschel Kidnapping
George's wife, widely seen as the planner; convicted and sentenced to life, released in 1958 when a judge ordered a new trial that never took place.
1933 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Paradise, Wise County, Texas · Convicted
Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life. Read the case.
Dated events
George Kelly and Albert Bates abduct Charles Urschel and Walter Jarrett from the Urschel home in Oklahoma City; Jarrett is soon released.
George and Kathryn Kelly are arrested in Memphis, Tennessee.
George and Kathryn Kelly are convicted and sentenced to life.
George Kelly is transferred from Leavenworth to Alcatraz.
Kelly dies of a heart attack at Leavenworth on his fifty-ninth birthday.
Kathryn Kelly and Ora Shannon are released on bond after a judge orders new trials; they are never retried.