Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine

In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend’s cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado. She and Tom French broke a window and found 80-year-old Baby Doe Tabor dead on the cabin floor, partially clothed, arms flung out, her body frozen stiff into a cross.

Fifty years earlier, Baby Doe had been one of the richest women …