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100 1  Tabac, William Louis,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker 
       Heights :|bExamining the Trial of Mariann Colby /|cWilliam
       Loui Tabac. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bThe Kent State 
       University Press,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    1 online resource (184 pages). 
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490 1  True crime history series 
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520    They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt
       observation, Mariann Colby -- an attractive, church-going 
       Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife -- bet a 
       defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of 
       murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that 
       would confront the State of Ohio in 1966, which would seek
       to prosecute her for shooting to death Cremer Young Jr., 
       her son's nine-year-old playmate: Colby had deftly cleaned
       up after herself by hiding the child's body miles from her
       home and concealing the weapon. Thus, this "highly 
       intelligent" woman, as she would be described at her trial,
       had hedged a little on her wager. Not only were there no 
       witnesses to the crime, but there was not a shred of 
       physical evidence to pin the slaying on her. Under the 
       usual forensic standards, her wager was spot on; the 
       probabilities were that she would get away with it. But as
       the Shaker Heights police found themselves stymied by an 
       investigation that was going nowhere, Mariann Colby upped 
       the ante a bit. Under intense questioning, she broke down,
       claiming the gun had accidentally discharged. The state 
       thought it had its capital murder case, but Mariann 
       Colby's bet against it would be right on the money. As her
       trial unfolds in the book, the imprecision of her insanity
       defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree 
       about her diagnosis. To make matters worse, the panel of 
       judges that initially tried Colby was so confused by what 
       they'd heard that they did not reach a decision consistent
       with the law of the state. This led to a second trial and 
       more conflicting psychiatric opinions, another 
       controversial judgment, and clashing trial outcomes. After
       reading The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of 
       Shaker Heights , readers -- and the many childhood friends
       of the slain boy whose painful reminiscences are set forth
       in the book -- will contemplate whether Mariann Colby did 
       indeed get away with murder. In addition, those interested
       in legal history will find much of value in Tabac's 
       discussions of the case and its use of an insanity defense
       strategy. 
588 0  Print version record. 
600 10 Colby, Mariann|xTrials, litigation, etc. 
600 10 Young, John Cremer,|cJr.,|d-1965|xDeath and burial. 
650  0 Insanity defense|zOhio|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Murder|zOhio|zShaker Heights|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zOhio|zCleveland. 
650  7 TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aTabac, William Louis.|tInsanity defense 
       and the mad murderess of Shaker Heights.|dKent, Ohio : The
       Kent State University Press, 2018.|z9781606353523 (pbk. : 
       alk. paper)|w(DLC)2018007978 
830  0 True crime history series. 
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