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Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? - Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery (Paperback)
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Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? - Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery (Paperback)
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On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on
the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student
Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight face=Calibri>-
presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours
later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of
campus, strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from
across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after
lead went nowhere. Four years later, the police investigation
completely stalled. In 1965, a drifter named Alex Arnold Jr.
confessed to the killing while in jail on other charges in Oregon.
Arnold was brought to Lexington, indicted for the murder of Betty
Gail Brown, and put on trial, where he entered a plea of not
guilty. Robert G. Lawson was a young attorney at a local firm when
a senior member asked him to help defend Arnold, and he offers a
meticulous record of the case in Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?
During the trial, the courtroom was packed daily, but witnesses
failed to produce any concrete evidence. Arnold was an alcoholic
whose memory was unreliable, and his confused, inconsistent answers
to questions about the night of the homicide did not add up. Since
the trial, new leads have come and gone, but Betty Gail Brown's
murder remains unsolved. A written transcript of the court
proceedings does not exist; and thus Lawson, drawing upon police
and court records, newspaper articles, personal files, and his own
notes, provides an invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most
famous cold cases.
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