Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Eugene Leo Gambetta
Eugene Gambetta was executed in the Nevada State Prison on October 18, 1949. Gambetta was convicted of killing his ex-wife Thelma Ribail when she would not come back to him. He blamed the murder on his sister-in-law, Lola La Pointe, who he believed was keeping Thelma dependent with narcotics and prostitution. Gambetta kidnaped Thelma Ribail in Reno on July 26, 1948. When she tried to escape, he shot her, put the body in the trunk of his automobile, and drove on to San Francisco where he was arrested. The Soledad, California, native was forty-sixty years of age when he was executed.
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