Around the time Annie supposedly ran away, her son remembered that the remains of a woman had been found burned in the same area where they lived. He went to the police with his story, and they showed him the evidence from the Jane Doe case – jewelry, fake teeth, shoes – and he identified them as belonging to his mom, practically sealing Harry Crawford’s fate.

During the murder trial, Harry insisted he was innocent and looked like he was about to have a nervous breakdown when questioned. Then the real story came out: After Annie found out Harry had been born a woman, she invited him out to a picnic. She told him she was going to leave him, and they started arguing. During the fight, she fell, hit her head on a rock, and died almost immediately. Terrified of being accused of murder, Harry soaked her body with kerosene and tried to burn the evidence of her death. He then thought about taking Annie’s son out to kill him as well, but couldn’t go through with it at the last minute.

The jury took two hours to come back with the verdict: guilty. Although they originally wanted to give him the death penalty, Harry’s sentence was eventually changed to life in prison, and then he ended up getting out eleven years later. He started living his life as Eugenia again, and got killed by stepping in front of a car several years later.

[via The Daily Telegraph; The Sydney Morning Herald]

Harry Crawford: Cross-Dressed to Kill

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