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1606353705 epub 2020 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist, US Northeast Best Regional Nonfiction The permanent solution to a wifes chronic headache As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite for sex. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young woman of wealth and privilege who was determined to keep herself pure for marriage. Unable to conquer her by other means, Harris talked her into a secret marriage under assumed names, and when threatened with exposure, he poisoned her. The resulting trial garnered national headlines and launched the careers of two of New Yorks most famous prosecutors, Francis L. Wellman and William Travers Jerome. It also spurred vigorous debate about Harriss guilt or innocence, the value of circumstantial evidence, the worth of expert testimony, and the advisability of the death penalty. Read more