Divorcess held for questioning in shooting of love rival
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Divorcess held for questioning in shooting of love rival

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · December 30, 1947

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Mrs. Bernice Bissonnette, 38-year-old divorcee and former WAC, is shown in Maricopa County jail here in Phoenix with Capt. S. Kimball, sheriff's chief investigator. She is alleged to have confessed firing the fatal bullet into the head of a love rival, Mrs. Margaret Qualline in Mrs. Bissonnette's home Christmas Eve in Macdona, Texas. She then fled west by car seeking to visit her son in California but was arrested near Phoenix.

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