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...real drama began--the media show. The von Auersperg's suspected von Bulow and hired a private investigator to help search the mansion. The investigator and Alex found the little black bag of drugs which Schrallhammer had discovered after Sunny's first coma. Chemical analyses revealed deposits of insulin on a used hypodermic needle found in the bag, along with a bottle of insulin and other containers with prescriptions for von Bulow on them. From that information the state and the von Auerspergs built their case against von Bulow...
...first trial, von Bulow looked as guilty as sin. He had a mistress who wanted him to marry her and was putting pressure on him. He stood to inherit a good bit of money if Sunny died. He appeared to have carried around a black bag with insulin and a variety of drugs in them. Sunny had a low blood sugar problem, and medical experts at the trial testified that an insulin injection definitely caused Sunny's first and second comas...
...Bulow was convicted in his first trial for attempting to murder his millionaire wife Sunny by giving her coma-inducing insulin injections...
...second trial, arrived at their decision at a Providence, R.I. "summit meeting" with the socialite just before the second trial began. They concluded that chances for acquittal would be best if the defense's case focused on medical testimony that Sunny's comas were not clearly induced by insulin...
...state granted two Harvard-affiliated hospitals permission to conduct long-restricted pancreas transplants, operations which doctors predict will enable thousands of diabetics to produce their own insulin. The Massachussetts General Hospital and the New England Deaconess Hospital, both Harvard affliated, were granted permission to conduct the transplants for one year...