Margaret Rudin
The state will not retry a woman who was previously convicted of murdering her real estate mogul husband over a possible divorce.
Margaret Rudin, now 79, shot and killed Ron Rudin, 64, in December 1994, and got help discarding the remains, burning her spouse with gasoline in an antique trunk, authorities have said. But Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said that even if Rudin were convicted again at a retrial, she would likely be sentenced to time served, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal. What’s more, John Sadler, Communications Director with the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, confirmed to Law&Crime that the office has no intention of appealing a federal judge’s decision from May.
Citing ineffective trial counsel, a federal judge last month reversed Rudin’s 2001 conviction for first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon and unauthorized surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device.
Defendant Rudin was released on parole back in January 2020 after serving a 10-year minimum of a consecutive life terms. Her current lawyer Greg Mullanax asserted prosecutors would likely lose if they did go back to court.
“I can guarantee a new trial won’t be like the last trial,” he told the outlet.
Rudin said she is writing a book about the case.
“I’m writing a book and putting all of the information in there,” she said.
Ron Rudin, a Las Vegas-based real estate mogul, was shot four times in the head with a .22 caliber firearm after going missing in December 1994. He had disappeared walking to his office from his wife’s brand new antique shop. Her business was located in a strip mall he owned, according to the judge’s ruling.
Testimony was mixed as to whether the couple was on the outs….
