Taber, Alberta — A murderous fugitive who hid from American and Mexican authorities in Alberta for decades was a bridge-playing, banana bread-baking ex-realtor, according to her former friends and neighbours.
Dee Glabus, as she was known in small-town of Taber, AB, was actually Sharon Kinne, one of America's most wanted criminals.
Kinne was tried for three murders — her husband, her lover's wife and a Mexican man she met in a bar — in Kansas City and Mexico City before she escaped from a Mexican prison in 1969, five years into a 13-year sentence.
Authorities were never able to track down Kinne after her escape.
Canadian police were tapped for assistance in 2023, after the Jackson County sheriffs received an anonymous tip that fugitive Sharon Kinne was living in southern Alberta as Dee Glabus.
Dee Glabus died in Taber in 2022. She'd lived in the town since 1973 and at one point owned the Taber Motel with her first Taber husband, Jim Glabus.
According to newspaper clippings from the time, Jim Glabus died from complications of diabetes and alcoholism at age 38.
A few years after his death, Dee Glabus married a man named Willie Ell. The pair were together for 30 years until Ell's death in 2011 at the age of 79.
It's unknown if either of Glabus's Alberta husbands were aware of her criminal past.
