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...Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
...Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
...Arsenic and Old Lace (Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
...more days of questioning, he smoothed his red hair and added: "I might as well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too. Said Courtney Rogers: "I had an Oedipus complex." No one was much surprised when he confessed that he had given his grandmother arsenic: "It was my first venture" (TIME, March...
...Angeles jury found Courtney Rogers guilty of murder. But while he waited for death, the California Supreme Court announced it was legally uncertain whether Courtney's mother & father might not have died, respectively, by self-inflicted chloroform and accident. Exhumed, grandmother's body contained no arsenic. Last week, at Courtney's third trial, the judge threw the case out of court. Courtney Rogers had repudiated all his admissions: "I told as many lies as I could to make them think I was insane...