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Bodiless Slaying Convict Scott Faces Death or Life
Jurors in Los Angeles must now decide L Ewing Scott’s punishment after a guilty verdict in the bodiless murder of his wealthy wife Evelyn Throsby Scott. He insists she is alive, possibly confined in a health institution, while evidence pointed to circumstantial murder. The case centers on her disappearance from the Bel Air home around May 1955.
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