Fugitive Caught By Pizza
Pizza did her in.
A woman on the lam for more than two years after being indicted in the murder of her millionaire husband was arrested by police in a Boston suburb who posed as pizza delivery men.
The Boston Globe reports it was a Domino's worker who told police he had spotted her.
Margaret Rudin was taken into custody Friday in Revere, after authorities received a tip when a story about her case was broadcast last month on America's Most Wanted. At a hearing Monday in Framingham District Court, she was ordered held without bail.
Her lawyer, Randall Power, said she plans to fight extradition to Nevada.
Rudin, 56, was indicted in 1997 on a murder charge in the death of millionaire Las Vegas real estate agent Ron Rudin.
The developer, worth some $10 million, was shot in his bed, loaded into an antique trunk, decapitated, burned, and tossed in a remote spot near the Colorado River. Margaret Rudin, his fifth wife of seven years, reported him missing. Fishermen found his body a month later.
A break in the case came in 1996, when a diver found a .22 caliber pistol buried under layers of plastic wrap in a Nevada lake. Investigators said the gun belonged to Rudin and was the murder weapon. Rudin was indicted in 1997, but she couldn't be located.
Authorities believe Rudin had been staying in Revere since at least December. While in Massachusetts, she was trying to become a cobbler's apprentice, said State Police Sgt. Mark Lynch.
Police had been staking out a house in Revere when a Domino's pizza delivery man showed up Friday. Officers followed the employee back to his shop and showed him a photograph of Rudin, and he said he believed he had seen the woman in the home.
Police borrowed a Domino's shirt, a pizza box and a company sign to put on top of the car and went back to the house. When police went in, reports The Globe, they found Rudin in the bathroom, wearing a black wig, the door closed, the lights off. She gave up without a fight. Police told the paper she seemed almost relieved.
In asking that Rudin be held, prosecutor Maura Murphy said the woman "has led the police through the states of Arizona, Illinois and New Mexico."
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