Mystery on the vineyard
Can someone really get away with murder?
It happened on Martha’s Vineyard in 1940.
In the pre-war innocence of small town America, a dapper off-Islander impresses the locals. Drawn to the prettiest girl, he is upset when an elderly woman tries to break off their romance. In a drunken stupor he murders the woman. Through an amazing confluence of circumstances, he avoids prosecution.
The reclusive, paranoid teacher of the victim draws the attention of a distracted district attorney, eager for a sensational trial to promote himself in an impending election. The teacher is arrested and charged with murder.
The looming shadows of war on the international stage capture the people of Martha’s Vineyard, and the murder near their local theatre fades into the murky memoirs of history.
Drawn from dozens of interviews, hundreds of pages of trial testimony, and countless issues of old newspapers, augmented by current commentary contributed by law enforcement officials, Mystery On the Vineyard revisits a cold crime scene with a fresh perspective on a sordid, grisly, unsolved murder.
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