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Convicted of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha ("Sunny") with injections of insulin, Von Bülow faces up to 40 years in prison. The prosecution, arguing that he might flee the country, asked that his $100,000 bail be revoked. But Judge Thomas Needham denied the motion, leaving Von Bülow free pending sentencing, probably...
...slow day in court, in Metro Region An envelope stuffed with 10 hundred-dollar bills--which James F. O'Leary, general manager of the MBTA, counted out one by one at the witness stand--and a little black case, a calculator case, containing syringes tainted with insulin--which von Bulow's stepson found in the accused's locked closet--became tangible symbols the masses could feel Frank J. Walters Jr., the 35-year-old assistant who was indicted last year with Locke but who later testified against his boss in order to keep a newly adopted child; and Maria Schrallhammer...
...married the ultra rich Martha "Sunny" Crawford von Auersperg, a Pittsburgh utility heiress, and they lived well, if not happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations. By May 1981, doctors had declared that Mrs von Bulow's brain had been damaged irreparably, and that she would never waken from her coma...
...insisted his wife was only sleeping and refused for almost nine hours to heed the maid's pleas to call a doctor. Later, Schrallhammer testified, she had found in Von Bülow's closet a black bag containing hypodermic needles and insulin. Speaking in heavily accented English, the German-born maid told the court she had asked Von Bülow's stepson, Alexander von Auersperg, "What for insulin...
Gerhard Meier, an internist who examined Sunny when she was taken to Newport Hospital on Dec. 21, 1980, suffering her second coma, said that she had "low blood sugar and an incredibly high insulin level," which is considered an abnormal combination. The defense had hoped that pretrial depositions from lab technicians would substantiate a mix-up in tests indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been...