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Handsome young Dennis Wepman moved to Manhattan from his home in Florida in 1951 with plans to write a novel. Inspiration was lacking until a friend, Harlow Fraden, confided that he planned to poison his parents. To Wepman this sounded like fine material for a book. While Fraden tricked his parents into gulping cyanide-spiked champagne last August, Wepman lurked in the corridor, taking notes. They framed the murder as a suicide pact (TIME...
...Fraden was committed in February to the Matteawan State Hospital for the criminal insane, but psychiatrists reported that Wepman, although mentally ill, was not legally insane. Last week he was sentenced to 20 years to life...
...Read Dryden Sir: Your closing sentence in the Fraden murder story, "Harlow was reading Dryden" [TIME, Dec. 28], may or may not come to have classic rank with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or "Damn the torpedoes," but it will have at least as much effect as your suggestion (after last year's election) that the "eggheads" voted readers' for respect for Stevenson, in intellectual undermining effort your and our cultural heritage...
...speaks for himself, not for me." Harlow himself talked only after the police accused him of murdering for gain. Nothing, he announced indignantly, could have been further from the truth-he had killed his mother simply because he hated her and killed his father because he was under Mrs. Fraden's thumb...
Some parents berate the boy more than themselves. Last week, when Harlow Fraden was indicted for the cocktail murder of his parents in The Bronx (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was quoted as saying that he had killed them because "his mother called him a 'fairy...