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Wanda Stopa was a young ambitious woman on the rise. She graduated law school at the top her her class in 1921. She was shortly after named the youngest and first woman Assistant United States District Attorney in Chicago, Ilinois. But she threw it all away to live the Flapper lifestyle. Married to a Russian Count, she falls for an American Advertising Executive, Y. Kenley Smith. When he refused to leave his wife and marry her, she accidentally shot his gardener, Henry Manning. She was found the next day, in Detroit, Michigan, at a hotel, poisoned.
Sources for this episode:
Wikipedia - Chicago
New York Daily News - Justice Story: Love made legal eagle lovesick and homicidal
Find A Grave - Wanda Elaine Stopa
Virginia Chronicle, Pages 1 and 22 - Dies By Poison Ends Life While Sought By Police
Chicago Tribune - Good girl gone bad
