In trial, top suspect became star witness against innocent man

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.

Apparently desperate to avoid charging a uniformed U.S. Marine with the crime, prosecutors sought a scapegoat to pin the murder of Martha James on. They found one, and they had to work really hard to make it stick ... but they got it done. (Albany, Linn County; 1943) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1607a.war-bride-murder-2.398.html)