Elaine Parent
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Elaine Antoinette Parent (August 4, 1942-April 6, 2002) was an American
criminal
known as "the world's most wanted woman" in the late nineties and early '00s. She was wanted for the murder of her former roommate, Beverly McGowan. Beverly had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate. A woman named "Alice" answered the ad. The woman named "Alice" was actually Parent. Soon after, Beverly disappeared and on July 19, 1990, her remains were found in a rural canal in St. Lucie County, Florida. She was given the nickname the "Chameleon Killer" by the media, and evaded capture for 12 years until Florida police caught up with her. However, on April 6, 2002 she committed suicide. Beverly McGowan's murder and the search for Elaine Parent were profiled on Unsolved Mysteries
and America's Most Wanted
.
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Crime
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known as "the world's most wanted woman" in the late nineties and early '00s. She was wanted for the murder of her former roommate, Beverly McGowan. Beverly had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate. A woman named "Alice" answered the ad. The woman named "Alice" was actually Parent. Soon after, Beverly disappeared and on July 19, 1990, her remains were found in a rural canal in St. Lucie County, Florida. She was given the nickname the "Chameleon Killer" by the media, and evaded capture for 12 years until Florida police caught up with her. However, on April 6, 2002 she committed suicide. Beverly McGowan's murder and the search for Elaine Parent were profiled on Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack, from 1987 until 2002, and later by Dennis Farina, starting in 2008...
and America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...
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