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...Zumbach survived her wounds but could not tell police who might have wanted to kill her husband. Then police talked with the Zumbachs' handsome son, André, 28, a producer at Radio Geneva, who remembered that on the night of the murder he had twice been called to the phone at the radio station, but that each time the caller hung up when André answered. Clearly, someone wanted to be sure he was there. Had André any idea who the caller might be? Of course, he replied: Pierre Jaccoud...
Moroccan Dagger. Young André explained: Lawyer Jaccoud's mistress for the past eight years was a fellow worker at Radio Geneva, slim Linda Baud, 38. André had wooed and won the susceptible Linda, and Jaccoud's reaction had been one of hysterical jealousy. He sent neurotic, anonymous letters to André, including photographs of Linda in the nude...
...said, obtained the nude photos by forcing her to undress at gun point. Another time he had driven her to the country and then threatened her with his revolver; Linda managed to get the gun away from him and throw it into a stream. To win her back from André, the desperate Jaccoud kept writing tear-stained letters and finally offered to divorce his wife and marry his "Poupette" (little doll...
Tranquil Nude. The first witness was Mme. Zumbach, who admitted that when she was confronted by a line-up of five men in the police station, one of whom was Jaccoud, she had promptly picked a burly policeman as the likely culprit. Her son André followed her to the stand, described his affair with Poupette as "an adventure neither of us took seriously." He conceded that he had already given her up in October 1957 - months before his father's murder - and had become engaged to an other girl, to whom he is now married. Jaccoud...
...tranquil and at ease." Conceded Linda: "Well, I didn't react." Did she consider the defendant capable of killing a human being? After some hesitation, Linda said, "I don't think so." Lawyer Floriot wrung from Linda the admission that she had taken a new lover since André, a young Belgian who worked for the Palais des Nations, and he left implicit the suggestion that if the jealous Jaccoud had been planning to kill anyone, it would have been the new lover, not the father...