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...Barbara Bradfield, 55, is living proof that this can work. A teacher turned homemaker in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., Bradfield is one of the lucky cancer patients who have already benefited from the new generation of gene-based treatments. She was 47 years old when she discovered a large lump in her breast. Tests showed that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls...
...Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police...
...contrast, William Bradfield is almost cuddly. He is a big, bearded teddy- bear type who fancies himself a classics scholar and an authority on the life and work of Ezra Pound. His real expertise was for juggling a busy love life. Explains one disenchanted ex-friend: "Imagine Bill Bradfield telling me he would never be interested in Susan Reinert and then going over there and making love to her while planning to kill her. At the same time, taking Wendy to the apartment he shared with Sue Myers and saying, 'Some day all of this will be yours.' While also...
Readers of these books must be prepared for complications. The evidence against Bradfield and Smith was sufficient to convince two juries of their guilt. (Smith is also suspected of murdering his daughter and son-in-law, although their bodies have never been located.) But one is never quite certain of what actually happened. Both men maintain their innocence, even though Smith came close to boasting about the crime to a fellow inmate. Bradfield had a solid motive: $750,000 worth of insurance policies that Susan Reinert had taken out, naming him the beneficiary. (He had previously been convicted of stealing...
...this Pennsylvania death trip is not easy. Old Pro Wambaugh chooses the cop's-eye view, telling much of the story as developed by the state police investigation and dispensing considerable amounts of macabre station-house humor. He is also fond of old-fashioned hard- boiled detective prose: "Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel is less imaginative and stylish...