Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seminars are based on more than 20 "nutshell" studies. Each is based on an actual murder, like the Dennison case, or is compiled from details of several unrelated murders. Each -- with one exception -- has a known solution and is designed to illustrate principles which are discussed in seminar lectures...
...studies require an attention to minute details that would have put Sherlock Holmes to shame. The Dennison replica, for example, has tiny marks, meant to represent hammer dents, in the floor. Though they are easy to miss, they are essential clues to solving the murder...
...other nutshell studies illustrate almost every conceivable variety of death: murder, suicide and accident. They depict hangings, drownings, knifings and, in a few cases, heart attacks...
Pretty, pregnant Marilyn Sheppard, 31, was murdered in her bedroom in Bay Village near Cleveland about 3:30 a.m. on July 4, 1954. The prosecution contended at the first trial that Osteopath Sheppard killed Marilyn with 27 blows to the head because he loved another woman. Sheppard blamed the murder on a "bushy-haired intruder," who clubbed him from behind and knocked him out. He professed love for his wife, despite her frigidity and his infidelity. "I couldn't possibly have done such a thing," he insisted. The jury rejected his story as "fantastic," and he received a life...
...witness, Jack Kraken, a bakery deliveryman, who said he once saw Marilyn giving a key to a man with whom she was having coffee in her kitchen. Who was the man? The jury was not allowed to hear; nor did even-handed Judge Tally admit Sheppard's post-murder statement to police naming Marilyn's three "spurned lovers," one of them a neighbor...