Elizabeth Duncan mug shot

Elizabeth Duncan stood beside her attorney, S. Ward Sullivan, for her arraignment on a murder charge
 in the slaying of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Olga Duncan. December 30, 1958. A. P. wirephoto.

Elizabeth Duncan

Elizabeth Duncan

Elizabeth Duncan

Elizabeth Duncan

Elizabeth Duncan with her son, Frank.

Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, on trial on charges of hiring two men to kill her son's bride, shouted,
"You're a liar!" at the prosecutor from her courtroom seat during testimony by the son, Frank
Duncan, right. Her outburst followed the prosecutor's challenge of the son's love for his wife.
Duncan was a defense witness.

Elizabeth Duncan

Frank Duncan and his mother, Elizabeth Ann. (Photograph by Los Angeles Times)

Elizabeth Duncan was returned to jail after being found guilty of murder. February 28, 1959.
(A. P. wirephoto)

Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan (center), 54, stands between attorney S. Ward Sullivan (left) and her son,
attorney Frank Duncan, as she hears Judge Charles F. Blackstock deny her motion of a new trial
and sentence her to death in the gas chamber for hiring two men to kill her daughter-in-law,
Olga Duncan. April 3, 1959.

Elizabeth Duncan