Word: farbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, it was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey-himself undefeated in 19 homicide cases (TIME, Dec. 9)-who shouted "Hooray!" After just four hours and 27 minutes of deliberation, a Freehold, N.J., jury acquitted Dr. Carl Coppolino, 34, of first-degree murder in the 1963 death of William Farber, 51, the husband of Coppolino's mistress...
...alcoholism. Time evidently lay heavy on Coppolino's hands. His wife would leave the house in their blue Chevrolet every morning for her job in a Nutley laboratory. Coppolino, according to the watchful neighbors, would stroll out to his mailbox and then up the street to visit Marge Farber, whose husband had gone to work in a Manhattan insurance office. Then, on July 30, 1963, Farber died. The death certificate was signed by Carmela, who listed the cause as coronary thrombosis...
...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...
...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 to make us exhume Colonel Farber's body...
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...