Word: carmela
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...would sit in his lap in the electric chair," said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first wife, Carmela, died in Sarasota last year. But he married a well-to-do divorcee six weeks after Carmela's death. It was only then, Bailey said, that Marge Farber turned on her erstwhile lover. Even Keuper conceded that her conduct was "disgusting"; after the verdict was in, asked...
...trial over, Coppolino and his wife embraced and wept. But instead of walking to freedom, he was whisked off under guard to Florida. There he has been indicted for the murder of first wife Carmela, who died suddenly at the age of 32. The death certificate gave the cause as a heart attack, but the prosecution will try to prove that Coppolino did her in. F. Lee Bailey will be there to defend Coppolino-now free on $15,000 bail-when the trial opens...
...informer suggested that Sarasota County Sheriff Ross Boyer look into "something odd" about Carmela's death. According to Boyer, the tipster was Marge Farber. Suspicion focused on succinylcholine chloride, a muscle relaxant commonly used by anesthesiologists. The drug is injected into patients to depress breathing temporarily during some operations, but an overdose can kill within ten minutes-and traces of the compound disappear from the body almost immediately...
Thus for Dr. Malcolm Gilman, chief medical examiner of New Jersey's Monmouth County, where Carmela formerly lived, began seven months of painstaking detective work. Gilman imported six rabbits to his farm, injected them with lethal doses of succinylcholine chloride, buried them (one with embalming fluid), and a month later disinterred the bodies. Sure enough, he reported, autopsies revealed telltale traces of the drug's components, though not of the compound itself. As a result, Gilman had Carmela's body exhumed and a four-month analysis performed on vital organs. Said Gilman: "What we found was enough...
Last week a New Jersey grand jury returned an indictment accusing Coppolino of having "feloniously murdered" Farber. Police believe that Carmela was pressured or duped into signing the death certificate. Days later, a grand jury in Sarasota handed down an indictment charging that Carmela had died from a "premeditated" act by Carl. Receiving reporters in her dinette, Marge insisted: "I loved my husband, not Carl...