Beauty over Crime If you are a person who finds it captivating hearing about stories of beautiful women being accused of committing horrendous but theatrical murders of men, then it sounds like the Oxygen Network show Snapped is right for you. The show Snapped resembles the Broadway musical Chicago. I know what my readers are thinking. “Hey, Chicago is just a musical and Snapped is based on real life murder cases committed by women”. But you are wrong in this case. John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse created Chicago the musical in the early 1970’s. The musical was originally a non-musical play written in 1926 by Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, based on two actual 1924 murder cases”(Miller). Beulah May Annan, the model…show more content… The details of Roxie’s trial came from what Beulah May Annan said herself from convincing for husband to take the wrap for her to the pregnancy stunt, all so theatrical. Beulah Annan had remarkable beauty and was in her prime at the age of 25 during the time of her trial. Rebecca Price stated “Annan, who was born in nearby Owensboro, KY, used her Southern charms to manipulate hose involved in the case. Every interview and picture was an opportunity to play out her sob story in the public eye. She even faked a pregnancy to gain sympathy” (Price). Beulah May Annan beauty and “southern charm” helped her sway people by using the press and the end the jury in her favor, which lead to her acquittal. She had no remorse about the incident of her killing her lover, Harry Kalstedt because she was found with the body, the confession, attempted to frame her loyal husband, lied about her motive, and faked a pregnancy. Her accusations made the trial into a clown circus and took away the justice from the victim. The amount of evidence the prosecutors had against Beulah May Annan still was not enough to put the beautiful murdering adulteress behind bars, this is the same outcome of the character Roxie Hart’s trial in Chicago. Almost 9 decades after Beulah May Annan was acquitted of Harry Kalstedt’s murder in the
