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The refusal of all male juries in the early 20th century to convict any attractive woman of murder was defense attorney Henry Uterhart's Trump card.

Blanca's resentment was turning septic.

With reliable sunshine that allowed for longer shooting days, the City of Angels was just beginning to overtake New York as the movie making capital of America.

There was an "unwritten law" that everyone knew existed yet few would admit. In essence it granted women especially wives the emotional license to kill any errant male with little fear of retribution.

In 1916 the chunky pocket watch was the preferred choice for "real" men while the more slender wristwatch was still viewed with suspicion.

Blanca suspected that Rodolfo her adoring admirer had the inside track on Jack's highly colorful private life.

In the early 20th century America trying to gain a murder conviction against any female defendant was tough.

His full name was Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Gugliemi,he would later be known as Rudolph Valentino

The Union Club was New York's oldest private social club dating back from 1835.

Among those who came to toast Blanca "the Chilean belle" was 29 year old Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jack purchased a .32 Smith & Wesson revolver for Blanca for her protection.

Only later would she discover that her husband was a serial embezzler, emptying her accounts of every penny he could grab.

Blanca still loved her husband but henceforth she would do everything in her power to keep him at arm's length.

Jack may have been a careless and even callous husband but he was utterly devoted to his son.

In a few short months Bianca had gone from the giddy delirium of a glittering society wedding in Paris to cowering from a violent and vengeful gold digger.

"Handsome Jack" liked to dangle the carrot of matrimony to some gullible gal in return for a quick tumble between the sheets.

At 16 years old Bianca was exactly half Jack's age.

Bianca de Saulles the "Flower of the Andes" was one of the wealthiest women in South America