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Even when she was playing the wide-eyed governess on the soap opera Dark Shadows, Alexandra Isles never made such a dramatic entrance. After Judge Corinne Grande told the prosecutors in the retrial of Claus von Bulow that they had four days to produce the former actress whose testimony helped convict Von Bulow in 1982, Isles realized that her greatest star turn was upon her. Ending months of European seclusion, she returned to Rhode Island to testify against her former lover. Demurely yet firmly, she described a 1980 phone call in which Von Bulow confided that he stood...
Isles' testimony ended the state's case against Von Bulow, the jut-jawed Danish socialite who is charged with twice attempting to murder his multimillionaire wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow by injecting her with insulin. The prosecution, which called most of the same witnesses from the first trial, sought to prove that Von Bulow was motivated by the love of Alexandra and the money of Sunny. Yet during the 24 days of prosecution testimony, Defense Counsel Puccio pugnaciously cross-examined the witnesses and successfully cast doubt on much of the crucial testimony...
...first trial, Isles proved an effective tragedienne. Despite her little-girl-lost demeanor, she turned steely under cross-examination. Frustrated by Puccio's needling attempts to pin down her changing emotions about Von Bulow, she burst out to the bespectacled defense attorney, "Have you ever been in love? I doubt it." Puccio wryly replied, "Maybe I can tell my wife to answer that...
...Isles dominated the first Von Bulow trial by her testimony, last week she dominated the second by her absence. The socialite left the country last win ter, purportedly to visit her mother in Ireland, and has not been seen since. Judge Grande ruled that the Rhode Island prosecutors failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close...
...Friday, the judge gave the state three more days to locate Isles, and told the defense to be ready with its side of the case. The missing mistress also prompted Von Bulow's attorneys to offer their fourth request for a mistrial, based on the prosecution's opening statement that previewed Isles' expected testimony...