Mary's Mosaic (78 page)

36
.   McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
, p. 193.

37
.   Ibid.

38
.   
U.S. v. Ray Crump, Jr.,
United States District Court For The District of Columbia. Criminal No. 930-64.
Motion for Mental Examination
. Filed November 12, 1964. Harry M. Hull, Clerk. The motion also supports Detective Bernie Crooke’s statement to Dovey Roundtree that he had smelled beer when he arrested Crump at approximately 1:15 p.m. on October 12, 1964.

39
.   Superintendent Dale C. Cameron, MD, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C., to Clerk of the Criminal Division for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, January 13, 1965.

40
.   
Crump v. Anderson
, pp. 42–59. The transcript of the coroner’s inquest on October 19, 1964, is no longer available.

41
.   Jerry Hunter, Esq., interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 6, 1990.

42
.   Roundtree, interview, February 23, 1991.

43
.   McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
, p. 197.

44
.   Roundtree, interview, February 23, 1991.

45
.   River Patrolman police officer Frederick Q. Byers of the Harbor Patrol testified on three different occasions that he retrieved a jacket alleged to have belonged to Crump at 1:46
P.M
on the afternoon of the murder. Trial transcript, p. 408, p. 409, p. 413. The distance computed to Three Sisters Island was from a GPS navigation instrument and Google Earth maps.

46
.   Both Wiggins and Branch would testify at the murder trial that they had no knowledge of the ownership, the work ticket, or the ultimate disposition of the stalled Nash Rambler sedan or who owned the vehicle. Trial transcript, p. 254, pp. 312–313.

47
.   David Acheson, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2008.

Chapter 5.
Trial by Fire

1
.    Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1991.

2
.    Charles Duncan, Esq., interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., December 20, 1990.

3
.    Roundtree, interview, May 25, 1991.

4
.    Ibid.

5
.    United States Department of Justice, confidential memo addressed to “Mr. Conrad,” February 24, 1965.

6
.    Roundtree, interview, May 25, 1991.

7
.    Ibid.

8
.    Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1991.

9
.    Ibid.

10
.   Trial transcript, United States of America v. Ray Crump, Jr., Defendant, Criminal Case No. 930-64, United States District Court for the District of Columbia: Washington, D.C., July 20, 1965, p. 3.

11
.   Ibid., p. 4.

12
.   Ibid., p. 6.

13
.   Ibid., pp. 6–7.

14
.   Ibid., pp. 12–15.

15
.   Ibid., p. 16.

16
.   Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1992.

17
.   Trial transcript, pp. 46–47.

18
.   Ibid.

19
.   Alfred Hantman, Esq., interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1991.

20
.   Trial transcript, p. 47.

21
.   Cord Meyer Jr.,
Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 143. Upon his return to Washington on the evening of Mary Meyer’s murder, Cord Meyer was met at the airport by his former brother-in-law and Washington attorney Steuart Pittman and career CIA official Wistar Janney.

22
.   Trial transcript, pp. 75–76.

23
.   Ibid., p. 70.

24
.   Ibid., p. 96.

25
.   Ibid., p. 383.

26
.   Ibid., p. 575.

27
.   Ibid., pp. 110–112.

28
.   Ibid., p. 122.

29
.   Ibid., p. 122.

30
.   Ibid., p. 124.

31
.   Ibid., p. 140.

32
.   Ibid., p. 130.

33
.   Ibid., pp. 131–132.

34
.   Ibid., p. 134.

35
.   Ibid., p. 136.

36
.   Ibid., p. 710.

37
.   Ibid., p. 137.

38
.   Ibid.

39
.   Ibid., p. 142.

40
.   Ibid., p. 207.

41
.   Ibid., p. 208.

42
.   Robert S. Bennett, Esq., interview by the author, Washington, D.C., November 11, 2009.

43
.   Trial transcript, p. 210.

44
.   Ibid., pp. 237–238.

45
.   Ibid., p. 241.

46
.   Ibid., p. 306.

47
.   Ibid., pp. 306–307.

48
.   Hantman, interview.

49
.   The distance from the 4300 block of Canal Road at the point that was directly across from the murder scene on the towpath to Fletcher’s Boat House was measured by both an automobile odometer and a GPS instrument and was found to be exactly 1.63 miles.

50
.   Trial transcript, p. 343.

51
.   Ibid., pp. 342–343.

52
.   Ibid., p. 352.

53
.   Roderick Sylvis, interview by the author, Wake Forest, N.C., July 23, 2008.

54
.   Ibid.

55
.   Trial transcript, pp. 345–347.

56
.   Sylvis, interview, July 23, 2008.

57
.   Trial transcript, p. 349.

58
.   Ibid., pp. 349–350.

59
.   Ibid., p. 350.

60
.   Ibid., p. 351.

61
.   Ibid.

62
.   Ibid., p. 342.

63
.   Sylvis, interview, July 23, 2008; Roderick Sylvis, telephone interview by the author, July 30, 2008.

64
.   Trial transcript, p. 359.

65
.   Ibid., p. 379.

66
.   Ibid., p. 381.

67
.   Ibid., p. 370.

68
.   Ibid., pp. 372–373.

69
.   Ibid., p. 378.

70
.   Ibid., pp. 407–413.

71
.   Ibid., p. 395, p. 424, p. 564.

72
.   Ibid., pp. 451–452.

73
.   Roberta Hornig, “Teacher Says He Passed by Mrs. Meyer,”
Washington Evening Star
, July 27, 1965.

74
.   Trial transcript, p. 657.

75
.   Ibid., p. 634.

76
.   Ibid., p. 658.

77
.   Ibid., pp. 658-659.

78
.   Ibid., pp. 766–767.

79
.   Ibid., p. 803.

80
.   Katie McCabe, interview by the author, September 22, 2008. The event was also mentioned by Nina Burleigh in
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 269.

81
.   Trial transcript, pp. 943–944.

82
.   Hantman, interview.

83
.   Ibid.

84
.   Edward Savwoir, telephone interview by Leo Damore. From Damore’s notes, this appears to have occurred during the winter of 1989, though it is not completely clear. Savwoir died in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 1989.

85
.   George Peter Lamb, interview by the author, April 28, 2010.

86
.   Roundtree, interview, May 25, 1991.

87
.   Katie McCabe and Dovey Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
2009), p. 218. Also, in two of author Leo Damore’s interviews with Dovey Roundtree (February 23, 1991 and May 25, 1991), she expressed her belief that Ray had been repeatedly beaten, abused, and “probably raped” during his eight months in jail before trial.

88
.   Robert S. Bennett,
In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer
(New York: Crown, 2008), p. 36; Bennett, interview.

89
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 336.

90
.   Ibid., p. 281.

91
.   Ibid., p. 275.

92
.   McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
, pp. 190–192.

93
.   Ibid., p. 218.

94
.   Ibid., p. 189.

95
.   Roundtree, interview, April 4, 1992; Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1993; McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
, pp. 205–206.

Chapter 6.
“Prima Female Assoluta”

1
.    Ron Rosenbaum and Phillip Nobile, “The Curious Aftermath of JFK’s Best and Brightest Affair,”
New Times
, July 9, 1976, p. 25.

2
.    Ibid., p. 33.

3
.    Gifford Pinchot,
Breaking New Ground
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998), p.10. In this account, Gifford noted that his grandfather Cyrille was forced to leave France for participating in a plan to free Napoléon from the island of St. Helena. Cyrille Pinchot’s actions in France are also discussed in “Edgar Pinchot,” in
Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania
(Chicago: T. H. Beers, 1900), p. 277; and Alfred Mathews,
A History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia: R. T. Peek, 1886), pp. 862–863.