This musical is inspired by the true stories of two women, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, who were both accused then acquitted of murdering their lovers.
Beulah May Annan was born in November 1899 in Kentucky. While living in Kentucky, she met and married her first husband, Perry Stephens. After some time, the two divorced and Beulah then married a second time in Chicago, to a car mechanic named Albert “Al” Annan. Beulah obtained a job as a bookkeeper at Tennant’s Model Laundry. This is where she met Harry Kalstedt and began her affair with him. On April 3, 1924, Beulah ...
