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California's Lamson murder mystery: the Depression era case that divided Santa Clara County

By Tom , Lamson , David;Lamson , David Albert;Zaniello

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.;History Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781439658192, 9781467136532, 1439658196
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3513638 bytes)
Pages
(141 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
David Albert;Murder -- California -- Case studies;David;CaliforniaMurder;Murder--California;Case studies;Lamson

Description

On Memorial Day 1933, Stanford executive David Lamson found his wife, Allene, dead in their Palo Alto home. The only suspect, he became the face of California's most sensational murder trial of the century. After a judge sentenced him to hang at San Quentin, a team of Stanford colleagues stepped in to form the Lamson Defense Committee. The group included poets Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis, as well as the "Sherlock Holmes of Berkeley," criminologist E.O. Heinrich. They managed to overturn the verdict and incite a series of heated retrials that gripped and divided the community. Was Lamson the victim of aggressive prosecutors, or was he a master of deception whose connections helped him get away with murder? Author and Stanford alum Tom Zaniello meticulously examines the details of a notorious case with a lingering legacy.

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