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Died. Candace Mossler Garrison, 56, the hard-bitten blonde who was acquitted with her nephew-boy friend in 1966 of murdering her husband, Millionaire Jacques Mossier; from a drug overdose; in Miami Beach. One of twelve children of a Georgia farmer, Candy married Mossier, 23 years her senior, in 1948. He was found stabbed to death in their Key Biscayne apartment in 1964. Candy and her 24-year-old lover, Melvin Lane Powers, were defended by Superlawyer Percy Foreman in a lurid, seven-week trial. They parted a few years later. She was subsequently married briefly to Barnett Garrison...
...JOHN R. MOSSLER, 51, who was Viet Nam director of the Agency for International Development, is now a U.S. representative to a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris...
Poor Conduce Mossier Garrison just seems to attract trouble. Nine years ago, her second husband, Multimillionaire Jacques Mossler, 69, was murdered, and she had to suffer through a trial before being acquitted of the crime. Then there was that bad three-story fall taken by her third husband, Electrical Contractor Barnett Garrison, whom the butler found outside their Houston mansion lying in a pool of blood. Garrison is still recovering and was not around for his wife's latest escapade. An intruder who apparently had a key to her Miami Beach hotel room threatened to strangle...
...favorite Foreman tactic is to argue that a murder victim was a rascal who badly needed killing. That was part of his strategy in the celebrated 1966 mariticide trial of Candy Mossler in Miami. Foreman repeated time and again that the late Jacques Mossler had been a "depraved" sexual deviate who might have been killed by any number of people...
Taking the offensive, Foreman claimed that a jury trial might wind up raising his fee. "Depending on what newspaper you read, Mrs. Mossler inherited $9,000,000 or $33 million by the death of Jacques Mossler," he beamed. "She would not have inherited one penny of this had she not been acquitted." In Texas, a lawyer can work for a 50% contingency fee. "Therefore," said Foreman, "I would be willing to accept any modest fee, handed down by a jury, of between $4,000,000 and $16.5 million for my services." Added Foreman: "It is quite possible that...