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...Frankie tongue-lashed him; when he pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing the ballad of Frankie at her, and they kept singing it as she moved westward. Mae West sang it in the Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong; then RKO did a picture called Frankie & Johnnie. Frankie Baker complained that everybody but her was making money out of her song. Her travels ended in Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief...
Pudgy, 16-year-old Delora Mae Campbell seemed to be an ideal babysitter. She seldom had dates and was willing to work on Saturday nights; she was a neat, well-mannered, quiet girl who kept a house tidy and washed up the dishes. Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Isbell always felt they had no need to worry when they left their two children and their modest house near Long Beach, Calif, in Delora Mae's hands. They had no way of looking into Delora Mae's mind...
...Delora Mae went about her chores at the Isbells' house one night last month as calmly and competently as always; she fed six-year-old Donna and eight-year-old Roy, sat with them in the living room watching a murder movie called Repeat Performance, as it nickered in on the television screen from Los Angeles' station KTLA. She put them to bed, washed the dishes, and, with these chores done, walked back to the living room and stretched out on the couch...
...little later, a nearby doctor was summoned to his door. Delora Mae looked up at him, white-faced and gasping: "Come with me. Come with me quick." The doctor followed her to the house. He walked into the bedroom. Then he made a quiet telephone call to the sheriff's office. Little Donna was dead...
...dreamlike calm finally broke. Delora Mae burst into tears after a jail, attendant discovered a legend she had scratched on her compact with the point of a bobby-pin, while sitting in her cell: "Delora Mae Campbell killed Donna Joyce Isbell Sat. nite...