Contrary to what is often stated, she was not executed by the Nazis. Instead, on 10 June 1944, Winsloe and her French partner, Simone Gentet, were shot and killed by four Frenchmen in a forest near the country town of Cluny. The exact reason why she and Gentet were killed was never fully clarified, but presumably they were falsely suspected to be Nazi spies by the Frenchmen.[3]