One of Nevada's most notorious convicted murderers was released from prison Friday, more than 25 years after her millionaire husband's burned body was found outside Las Vegas.
Margaret Rudin, 76, a socialite antiques shop owner dubbed the "black widow" while she was a fugitive ahead of her 2001 trial, left a women's prison after winning parole from her 20-years-to-life sentence for the killing of real estate mogul Ron Rudin.
Rudin did not speak with reporters, but Mullanax said in a prepared statement: "This is a happy day for Margaret Rudin and her family." Her case was tried before the same judge who presided when former stripper Sandy Murphy and her lover, Rick Tabish, were convicted in 2000 and acquitted in 2004 of murdering the 55-year-old Binion, who prosecutors said was drugged and suffocated in a plot to steal his fortune of buried silver.
Ron and Margaret Rudin had been married for seven years -- the fifth marriage for each. Police said he was shot several times with a .22-calibre gun with a silencer that Ron Rudin reported missing in 1988. She became a fugitive after police said a diver found the murder weapon in 1996 at the bottom of Lake Mead. She was indicted in 1997 on murder, accessory to murder and unlawful use of a listening device charges. Prosecutors said she tapped her husband's phones when she suspected he was having an affair.
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