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...First Finch. The prosecution's Finch, as depicted in the case built by Deputy District Attorney Fred Whichello, was an immoral, sinister schemer. Though the doctor was enormously successful (part ownership of a thriving clinic, income of about $200,000 a year, a $50,000 home in the fancy Los Angeles suburb of West Covina, a 22-ft. speedboat, three cars), his marriage to Barbara was a dismal failure. It was a second marriage for both; they had met when she was his secretary and then had swapped spouses (he had three children by his first wife). The marriage...
When Barbara withdrew money from their joint account and put it into her own, said Whichello, Finch forged a $3,000 check. And finally, to prevent Barbara's attempt to get the divorce, which could possibly have netted her all of their $750,000 estate under California's community property laws, Carole and Finch hired a self-styled ladies' man from Las Vegas named John Patrick Cody, who was to get $1,400 for murdering Barbara...
...Cody glibly told the story from the stand, Finch said: "Before you kill her, tell her the bullet came from Bernie...
...said Cody, he had had no intention of killing Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near...
...Second Finch. That was the prosecution's picture of Bernie Finch. The other, carefully characterized by the doctor himself with the help of brilliant Criminal Lawyer Grant Cooper, was a frustrated loving husband. He happily shared a king-sized 7 ft. by 7 ft. double bed with his wife, he said, until he was driven into the arms of another woman by his wife's frigidity after the birth of their son in 1953. He testified volubly about his love affair with Carole, a onetime photographer's model, and the trysting apartments he rented under an assumed...