Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NATO. Bruce never believed that his daughter, who was known to her family as Sasha, had killed herself. Says an old friend: "David knew there was something odd about it. He was suspicious from the start." Soon after Bruce died last year at the age of 79, his wife Evangeline hired Washington Attorney Downey Rice to investigate Sasha's death. As a result of his labors, a grand jury in Charlotte County, Va., voted to bring an indictment for murder. The defendant: Alexandra's husband Marios, 33. The grand jury also indicted him for bigamy, charging that...
...gain by murdering the woman I loved? Inheritance? I refused all rights to it when she died." He did admit, though, that after her death, he accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly a suicide and that she had tried to take her life twice before, once as a student when she crashed her car and once before her marriage by swallowing sleeping pills...
...County Prosecutor Edwin Baker a five-page letter denying any guilt. "When this tragic event took place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse...
Michaelides also maintained in the letter that he is innocent of bigamy. He said that he had obtained a Haitian divorce from his first wife, Mary, a U.S.-born schoolteacher, before marrying Alexandra. (In fact, Michaelides is now living again with Mary and their daughter, who was born after their divorce and named?in a mysterious allusion to both wives?Mary Alexandra...
Finally, Michaelides insisted in the letter that he embezzled nothing from the Bruces. Said he: "Everything that was found on my hands was either given to me by my wife or her brothers, or it was bought by me from her brothers after her death." (Alexandra's brother David denies this claim in an affidavit, filed in Jefferson County...