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...however, rule out the possibility that the killer might have been made mentally unbalanced by the signs of such suffering. Five hours later, the jury of nine women and three men-all of them parents-announced its verdict in the case of Connecticut v. Carol Paight, the tall, 21-year-old blonde who had fired a bullet into the head of her cancer-ridden father to save him from a lingering, painful death (TIME, Feb. 6). The verdict: not guilty. Carol, the jurors decided, was temporarily insane when she killed her father...
While spectators packing the courtroom cheered in approval, pale Carol Paight sobbed with relief. "I'm so happy, I'm so happy," she said...
...nurse's aide was on duty in Sergeant Paight's room. Ditty waited while her father lay unconscious on the hospital bed. The nurse's aide left on an errand...
Nurse Margaret Smith, on duty in the chart room, heard what she thought was a tray falling, a few minutes later looked up to see Carol Paight standing in the doorway. Ditty wanted someone to come and look at her father. Nurse Smith hurried into his room, found him dying, shot through the left temple. On the tray table at the foot of his bed was his revolver. Ditty, with her blonde head resting against the wall, said quietly: "I shot...
...Would Try." A grand jury indicted Ditty for second-degree murder. Neighbors, the mayor, business and civic leaders of Stamford who had known and respected Sergeant Paight, rallied to his daughter's side, raised a defense fund...