165: A Missing Bullet & the Black Widow of Las Vegas

Published: March 17, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

Tim Noble called 911, desperate for help. He\u2019d just walked into the home he shared with his fiance, Debra Holden, and found her dead on the couch. A gun lay next to her. It appeared she\u2019d died by suicide, and that\u2019s exactly what the medical examiner ruled. Investigators couldn\u2019t find the bullet, though. That seemed a little odd. The blood trail also seemed odd. It was as if she\u2019d been moved after she died. Then Tim showed up at the hospital with a bullet in his leg and an incredibly strange story as to how it got there.\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us about Margaret Rudin, the so-called black widow of Las Vegas. When Margaret and Ron Rudin got married, it was the fifth marriage for both of them. What had been a whirlwind courtship got rocky as soon as they moved in together. Margaret discovered that Ron was having an affair. She also discovered that he\u2019d never renovated the home after his ex-wife died by suicide. Over the years, Margaret says their marriage improved. But when Ron was brutally murdered, Margaret was the prime suspect.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cFive Weddings and a Murder,\u201d episode of 20/20\n\u201cRudin\u2019s Revenge,\u201d episode of Mugshots
\n\u201cLast Vegas attorney Amador arrested on felony assault charges,\u201d by Mike Blasylas for the Vegas Review-Journal\n\u201cSocialite seeks a mistrial,\u201d by Ken Ritter for the Associated Press\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cThe Missing Bullet\u201d episode Accident Murder or Suicide\n\u201cMan Passes Out, Urinates Himself After Being Questioned About Fianc\xe9e's Murder\u201d by Aly Vader Hayden, oxygen.com\n\n\u201cMurder trial: Opening statements paint two pictures of a woman\u2019s death\u201d by Amanda Thames, Jacksonville Daily News\n\u201cDefendant takes stand in murder trial\u201d by Mike McHugh, Jacksonville Daily News\n\u201cOnslow Co. man sentenced to life in prison for killing fiancee\u201d by Elizabeth New, WNCT9 News\n
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