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According to historians, the murder was motivated by money. Webster owed Parkman a loan which totalled, with interest...
...press and public immediately suspect- ed that Webster had dismembered his colleague, and the police agreed. One hundred forty-five years ago this week, on November 30, 1849, police officers came to Webster's Cambridge home and took him into custody, according to the Boston Daily...
...Webster was an unusual murder suspect. He was a prominent member of Harvard's academic and social community, and he and his wife were known for their lavish and well-attended parties...
Parkman had been missing since the week before Webster's arrest. He was last seen entering the Medical College at 1 p.m., reportedly for a meeting with Webster...
...Webster's arrest captivated the country. The community clamored for explanations. Why had a successful professor murdered, dismembered and, using acid, partially dissolved another professor...