Word: pecho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Example: the only fingerprint found on the shotgun was that of Pecho's wife...
Robinson took his suspicions to another pathologist, Dr. Richard E. Olsen, who, at the request of Pecho's attorney, had been studying the case for weeks. "This is a classic suicide, a textbook case," Olsen told Robinson. "The evidence for suicide is so great that the only evidence I could accept to prove murder would be a confession by Pecho, confirmed by a polygraphy [lie detector] test." As both Robinson and Olsen knew, Pecho had been given four polygraphy tests, none of which indicated that he was lying when he stated his innocence...
Robinson checked out his last suspicion with Pecho himself. Since Pecho admittedly had been with his wife on the day of her death, why hadn't he tried to prevent her suicide? Guiltily, Pecho confessed that after 14 years of constant quarreling and repeated threats of suicide by his wife, he had finally reached the point, on that June morning in 1954, where he simply did not care...
Robinson's story in the Free Press touched off an official reinvestigation of the Pecho case, and a reconstruction of Mrs. Pecho's death proved that she could easily have pulled the trigger herself. In the light of this and other compelling evidence of Pecho's innocence, Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams granted...
...Walter Pecho a full pardon. As Pecho last week walked free, after five years and seven months in prison, Governor Williams said: "The press, and particularly the Detroit Free Press, has performed a public service of the highest order...