HOW THE QUESTIONS BEGAN--LONG AGO!

It is a bit difficult for me to harken back in memory to the time when first I heard of Elsa Newman. It was the media that originally brought the case to my attention, and at that time, I knew nothing at all about the wommon, except that she was an attorney and even in news reports that came across as pretty anti-Elsa, it was obvious that this was an exceptionally intelligent human being.

At that time, Elsa was on trial for a supposed conspiracy to murder her then-husband.

And my vivid recollection is that as I read and watched story after story that stretched from the East Coast to a national audience...my only vivid recollection is a question: What on earth are those people talking about?

My line of reasoning was this: If a wommon of such obvious quality and intelligence wanted somebody dead, then that somebody would be dead, wouldn't he!