A Lovely Girl by Deborah Holt Larkin

Author:Deborah Holt Larkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

PART THREE THE TRIAL

February 24, 1959–March 20, 1959

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE FIRST DAY OF THE TRIAL

February 24, 1959

When I look back, Elizabeth Duncan’s trial is linked inextricably in my mind to the sound of my father’s voice—his dramatic, profanity-laced, sometimes humorous stories about witness testimony and crazy antics in the courtroom. Stories of blackmail, a Salvation Army man and a phony annulment, too many husbands to count, and Mrs. Duncan breathing fire to the end, often told in snatches between more chaotic attempts at home repair.

I read every word of his newspaper articles, and I scrutinized the front-page photos of all the trial participants. But his nightly accounts brought the bizarre and brutal characters involved in Olga Duncan’s murder to life around our dining room table. I hung on every detail of his spellbinding tales, and although I’d never met any of these people, I knew them all very well.

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