Talk:Beulah Annan

Incorrect Dates?
Found and photographed her tombstone yesterday. It reads

Top panel: BEULAH M.

Front: DAU. OF J.R. & M. SHERIFF NOV. 18 1898 MAR. 10, 1927

Epitaph: Gone but not forgotten.

--Sporkofscience 22:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Murder Controversy
why call her a murderess? I think she was finally acquitted.

I agree with the above statement - While it is evident that it was she who killed the man, it never came clear if it was an actual murder, or a self-defence kill. I say, change "murderess" into "killer". --Akuen 18:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Why not adopt the treatment given to Belva Gaertner, whose situation is comparable? The article on her calls her "Suspected American murderess". It is a fact that many suspect she committed the murder, despite her lack of conviction. --Rnickel 18:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * She changed her story multiple times. That makes her a serial liar. We will never know for sure, but she's probably guilty of manslaughter or murder. 70.161.8.90 (talk) 00:05, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Needs sources
No sources, add unref tag. POV, calls her a murderer though she was not convicted.--FloNight 23:21, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I say she is a scumbag killer who instead of having a musical about the sham acquittal she should have gotten the electric chair. Poor dumb Al Annan.


 * Don't take it out on Kander and Ebb; they wrote the musical long after she was acquitted (and had died). And as it turned out, even the musical was ahead of its time; it wasn't till after O.J. Simpson's trial in the 1990's that it took off as the long-running revival (and later Oscar-winning film).  --RBBrittain 03:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Conflict between paragraphs
The first and second paragraphs under "Early life" are conflicting. The first says she moved to Chicago right after divorcing Perry Stephens; the second says she didn't move there till after she married Al Annan in Kentucky. Since there aren't any web links to the Chicago Tribune articles cited, I can't for myself which is correct. Which one is it? Or are both correct (i.e., she married Annan immediately after divorcing Stephens--which suggests Annan wasn't her first cuckold)? --RBBrittain 03:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)