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...motive had been discovered, too: an entry in Kinsey's diary, made "on or about March 26," indicated that he thought his wife had been unfaithful. Things looked bleak indeed for School-teacher Kinsey...
Loved Wife. There, in that alien atmosphere, Kinsey, of Washington and Lee University, faced a prosecution case that seemed overwhelming. On March 27th, he and his auburn-haired wife Peverley, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, had bicycled to rock-strewn Impala hill, two miles from the village of Maswa. Prosecutor Effiwatt told the hushed court that in that lonely spot, Kinsey had taken an iron bar and beaten the young wife he had met and married in December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed...
Then he took the stand in his own defense, and suddenly the case against him began to look remarkably flimsy. Guided by Georgiadis, Kinsey explained that he had loved his wife, had never suspected or accused her of infidelity, nor had he ever wanted to harm or hit her. He testified that since they were both teachers, they had spent most of the day of her death at home grading papers, then they had left to cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life...
Smashed Head. On reaching the hill, he and his wife read and drank beer for a while, Kinsey said. Later they climbed to the top of a higher rock for a better view of the countryside. While he was gazing in a different direction, Peverley apparently slipped and plunged 20 ft. to the spot where they had been sitting earlier. When he scrambled down to his wife, Kinsey said, she got to her feet, even though blood was gushing from her head. He said that she was screaming his name and crying, "Oh, my God!" over and over. Before...
...Kinsey insisted that he had tried to hold her still to prevent further injuries -it was this appearance of struggle, he claimed, that the African eyewitness saw. Kinsey finally had to sit on his wife while he cradled her head in his arms to stop her from smashing it against the rocks. He tried to carry her downhill, but, after falling several times, he placed her in the shade with her head elevated to lessen the bleeding. He then ran down the hill in search of help; what he found was the African farmer and his friends, who gave...