The UNLV Libraries Collection of Grace Nusser Photographs (approximately 1970-1980) contains black-and-white images from the
The UNLV Libraries Collection of Grace Nusser Photographs (approximately 1970-1980) contains black-and-white images from the
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Grace A. Nusser was born in approximately 1898. She married George F. Nusser in Santa Ana, California on August 20, 1923, who worked for the Bureau of Power and Light in Los Angeles, California. They later moved to Boulder City, Nevada on June 1, 1936. Grace A. Nusser killed George F. Nusser on April 27, 1937, and was sentenced to life in Nevada State Prison for first degree murder. She served approximately a year and a half in prison before being transferred to the Nevada State Hospital in Reno, Nevada in approximately 1939. She died June 9, 1952.
Sources:
"Personals: Suits Filed."
"Mrs. Grace Nusser Faces Nevada's Gas House."
"George F. Nusser." Find A Grave. May 28, 2014. Accessed June 11, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130524317/george-f_-nusser
McBride, Dennis. "Boulder City History: Grace 3737."
Little, Annalise. "Nevada Marked By 150 Years of Murder Mayhem." October 25, 2014. Accessed June 11, 2020. https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-marked-by-150-years-of-murder-mayhem/
UNLV Libraries Collection of Grace Nusser Photographs, approximately 1970-1980. PH-00231. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were collected by the University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; accession number 2020-060.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.