Al Spencer Gang members jokingly hold up others in their crew.
Credit 10A more unnerving theory about Anna’s death was that her killer
was living among them in sheep’s clothing. Mollie and others
began to harbor suspicions about Anna’s ex-husband, Oda Brown,
who called himself a businessman but spent most of his time
carousing. In retrospect, his distraught manner had seemed
almost too theatrically intense. An investigator wrote in his notes,
“This may have been real grief or...for effect.” After Anna had
divorced him, she had denied him any inheritance, leaving
virtually all of her fortune to Lizzie. Since the burial, Brown had
hired a lawyer and had tried unsuccessfully to contest the will. The
investigator concluded that Brown was “absolutely no good and
capable of doing almost anything for money.”
Several weeks after the funeral, a man who’d been arrested in