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...Olga's hospital friends reported her mysteriously missing. Frank was no help. Santa Barbara and Ventura police turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother Duncan had hired them to kill Olga for $6,000. They led the cops to a shallow grave in a Ventura County ditch. There indeed lay the body of Frank Duncan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Mother Duncan, already in jail for the fraudulent annulment, was led from her cell and charged-along with Baldonado and Moya-with murder. Angrily, she denied all, called the whole thing a frame-up to hurt her Frank. Frank himself hid under an assumed name in a Hollywood apartment until the cops tracked him down. Then he scarcely grieved over his dead wife and unborn child. But he was shocked and shaken by his mother's plight. Said he: "I could never recall mother doing anything cruel. She would have to be insane to be linked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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