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Surratt's lead attorney, Joseph Habersham Bradley, admitted Surratt's part in plotting to kidnap Lincoln but denied any involvement in the murder plot. After two months of testimony, Surratt was released after a mistrial; eight jurors had voted not guilty, four voted guilty.
Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried in the conspiracy, but was not convicted. Born in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840 and had three children with him.
Members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia already suspected John Surratt of complicity in Lincoln's murder, and had visited the Surratt boarding house for the first time as early as 2:00 a.m. on April 15, less than four hours after the attacks. [92] [93] [94] Nothing incriminating was found. Federal authorities ...
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is being asked to let prosecutors use a controversial confession as evidence in a murder case featured in the Netflix series, "The Innocent Man."
The prosecution in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial showed the jury more than 40 crime scene photos, some of them graphic, on the third day of the proceedings. The photos, which caused ...
Guilty of attempted rape and aggravated rape of his wife, and of drugging her. Sentenced to 12 years. Charly Arbo. Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 13 years. Florian Rocca. Guilty of ...
In the summer of 1979, he was found guilty and was given two additional life imprisonment terms. [18] [19] At his first trial, Surratt confessed to the murder of 56-year-old John Shelkons, who was shot with a shotgun at his home in Baden, Pennsylvania on January 7, 1978, as well as attacking his wife Catherine, who was beaten severely but lived ...
According to NJ.com, Skeet was found guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of Charlene Moore and Estella Moore in 1987.He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison. Rob, who was 7 at the time ...