A Climax Of Repression
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Episode 255 examines the sensational events following the discovery of a woman found dead in the bathtub, bludgeoned to death, and all circumstantial evidence pointing to the husband. I’m not so sure. The prosecution theory makes some sense, but I think they failed to prove a crucial element that would have convinced me. Drop me an email or a message on Facebook and tell me if you think the same way, what that missing element might be.
Culled from the historic pages of the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Puler.com |
| 0:03.5 | Lampson cries innocence in prison cell. |
| 0:15.9 | Stanford man displays grief, |
| 0:18.4 | tells story of wife's death. |
| 0:23.0 | By David A. Lamson. |
| 0:28.2 | How does anyone think I could have harmed Aline? |
| 0:32.0 | My God, I loved her better than my own life. |
| 0:35.1 | I treated her more like a child than a wife. |
| 0:39.5 | The very fact that I got up in the morning drew her bath and prepared her breakfast for her shows how devoted I was to her. Losing her so suddenly |
| 0:45.8 | under such tragic circumstances is bad enough without the finger of suspicion being |
| 0:51.0 | pointed at me in connection with her death. Yet Mr. Free, my lawyer, |
| 0:56.1 | seems to think that I may be charged with killing her and be forced to defend myself against |
| 1:00.8 | a charge of murder. That is enough to drive any man mad. I got up about six o'clock yesterday morning |
| 1:08.5 | to do some work in our garden. I got into my working clothes, |
| 1:12.7 | shorts, old trousers and old shoes in our living room, and I just tossed my pajamas to a chair there. |
| 1:19.7 | I must have been working among the flowers for upward of three hours when I noticed that it was |
| 1:24.4 | time to call my wife. I went in and awakened her, started the water for her bath, |
| 1:30.4 | and then went to the kitchen to prepare her breakfast. |
| 1:34.1 | When the tub was about half filled, I turned off the water, |
| 1:37.5 | told her it was all ready and went back to the kitchen. |
| 1:41.1 | When her breakfast was ready, I returned to the garden. Some time later, Miss Helen Vincent, whose house backs on ours, came out. |
| 1:50.0 | We talked for a little, and then I excused myself because I heard our front doorbell ringing, |
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