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Traces the reversals of fortune of Carl Coppolino, who came from humble beginnings and became an anaesthesiologist, author and hypnotist married to another doctor, with two children and a place in Florida. That was before he was accused of murdering two people.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Carl Coppolino: Anaesthesiologist who came from a family of barbers and who published a number of books on hypnotism
- Carmela Coppolino: Introduced to Carl by Carl's mother, she was the daughter of a physician herself and entered medical school after studying chemistry as an undergraduate
- Marjorie Farber: Met Carl by accident one day -- she was a friend of Carmela's -- and became his mistress
- Bill Farber: Marge's well-off husband, a career military man
- Mary Gibson: A well-off divorcee
Quotes edit
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“And when I drove home, when I went past his house, he was sitting out there in the driveway in a folding chair, and I got out of the car, and my whole feeling was of this tremendous, overwhelming -- I couldn't understand it, but that is the way I felt. I had to be with this man.”
Marge Farber -
“Was she in love with Carl, or was she merely his hypnotized love slave?”
Author -
“That is a photograph of the larynx which was taken by me with one of my associates working the camera.”
Dr. Milton Helpern -
“Dr. Helpern said he had never before encountered such a case, had never read about one in medical literature, and was quite certain that no other pathologist, in this country at least, had ever had one.”
Author -
“That was not a speculative possibility, that was an exclusive possibility, and that was chemist talk.”
Dr. Milton Helpern -
“Bailey stepped into the courtroom less than three weeks after the mpost spectacular victory of his brief career, the acquittal of Sam Sheppard, accused wife-murderer, in a new trial Bailey had won for him in the United States Supreme Court.”
Author -
“I met the girl. She is a nice person, a very nice person. But I felt no attraction for her. She is not for me.”
Carl Coppolino
First Sentence edit
On September 19, 1966, a gaunt beak-nosed, hollow-cheeked man sat sweating and grimacing in the rancid, hundred-degree heat of the felony tank of the Sarasota, Florida, county jail.
Table of Contents edit
PART I -- THE CRIMES -- IF CRIMES THERE WERE
1 JAIL LETTER
2 BARELY BORN
3 GROWING UP IN BROOKLYN
4 THE COURTSHIP OF CARMELA
5 TWO CAREERS ARE LAUNCHED
6 THE COLONEL AND HIS LADY
7 NEW FIELDS IN FLORIDA
8 BUILDUP FOR TRAGEDY
9 THE MILLS OF GOD START GRINDING
10 "YET THEY GRIND EXCEEDINGLY SMALL"
PART II -- "WHAT OTHER DUNGEON!"
11 "AND THAT EACH DAY IS LIKE A YEAR..."
12 THE FIRST ENCOUNTER
13 NEW STRATEGY
14 "A YEAR WHOSE DAYS ARE LONG"
PART 3 -- MURDER, SHE SAID
15 TEN MEN AND FOUR WOMEN
16 END OF THE LEVITY
17 HYPNOSIS AND/OR LOVE
18 THE MURDER SHE SAID SHE SAW
19 THE ENTRANCED WOMAN
20 BAILEY TOSSES TWO GRENADES
21 MARGE BOWS OUT
22 THE SECOND ENCOUNTER
23 A NEW BATTLE OF MONMOUTH COURTHOUSE
24 WHEN EXPERTS CLASH
25 "SHE WASN'T HYPNOTIZED"
26 CARL FOR HIMSELF
27 DAY OF DECISION
PART 4 -- NAPLES IN THE SPRING
28 WINTER OF HIS MOST CONTENT
29 PYRRHIC VICTORY
30 JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE
31 UMBERGER SOUP
32 THE THIRD ENCOUNTER
33 MEDICAL ROLLER COASTER
34 MARGE AND DR. MUSETTO FOR THE STATE
35 WINDING IT UP
36 "THE MOVING FINGER WRITES AND HAVING WRIT MOVES ON..."
EPILOGUE
INDEX
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Questionable. (community list)
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- Books › Law › Specialties › Military
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