Word: headmistress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean Harris, high-minded headmistress of Virginia's starchy Madeira girls' school, was deeply in love with Dr. Herman Tarnower, inventor of the famous Scarsdale diet. Of that there is no doubt...
...question, however, was not one of variously requited love but of murder. The headmistress, 57, admits that she shot and killed the cardiologist, 69, on the night of March 10. But did she shoot him in a cold rage over his affair with a younger woman? Or did she kill him accidentally in a near midnight struggle over the .32-cal. revolver she had brought to his suburban New York estate, intending to kill herself after a farewell visit...
...headmistress details her last date with the diet doctor...
...attempt to show his client was not consumed by murderous jealousy, Harris' defense attorney, Joel Aurnou, read a Christmas poem the headmistress had written to Tarnower making light of his sexual flings...
...directed the officers to the gun, which lay on the front seat of her car. At week's end a judge ordered that Harris, free on $40,000 bail, be bound over to a grand jury, which will determine what charges, if any, should be filed against the headmistress of the Madeira School...