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Marybeth Davis (born c. 1952) is an American former nurse who was convicted of the murders of her two children in 1997, although she had maintained her innocence for several years. Davis was released from prison in 2007 after accepting a plea deal and confessing to the crimes.
Davis, an adopted child, was born in Chicago in 1916 [1] and raised in Illinois by Margaret (née Greer) and Alfred J. Salisbury. [2] She worked in Chicago in advertising as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser, prior to taking up fiction writing. [3]
The Crown Crime Companion : The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Edited with Mickey Friedman. (1995) Murder For Love (1996) The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998) Murder For Revenge (1998) Murder and Obsession (1999) Best American Mystery Stories of the Century Edited with Tony Hillerman. (2000) Murderer's Row (2001) Murder On the Ropes ...
Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories, is a mystery short story collection written by John Dickson Carr and first published in the US by Lawrence E. Spivak (The American Mercury) in 1947. Most of the stories feature his series detective Gideon Fell .
Montesi's murder remains unsolved, and the cause of death remains unknown. [12] Murdered 2 days 1953 Kyllikki Saari: 17 Finland Kyllikki Saari, a girl from Finland, was last seen alive on May 17, 1953, cycling home from a prayer meeting. Kyllikki's bicycle was recovered in a marsh that summer and her remains were found on October 11, 1953, in a ...
Henry Logan and his wife, Mozell Logan, went on to have "at least" 18 children, including Davis' mother, Mae Alice Davis. “It makes me know that I entered this world with a big old load from the ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Howard Haycraft, author of the seminal Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, wrote during 1941 that H.M. or "The Old Man" was "the present writer's admitted favorite among contemporary fictional sleuths". During 1938 the British mystery writer R. Philmore wrote in an article called "Inquest on Detective Stories" that ...