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Crime History: Cabaret singer’s boyfriend killed in ‘Chicago’ case

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Cabaret singer’s boyfriend killed in ‘Chicago’ case

On this day, March 11, in 1924, cabaret singer Belva Gaertner allegedly shot and killed her married boyfriend in a sensational case that became the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Gaertner’s lover Walter Law was found in the front of her car with a bottle of gin and gun lying beside him. She was later found drunk with Law’s blood on her clothes.

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