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#023: In 1928 Decasto Eugene Mayer and his mother Mary Ellen Smith murdered a guy, chopped him up, and stole his car. The body was never found, but Mayer confessed after being subjected to relatively new interrogation techniques - injections of truth serum and the lie detector. On the eve of his almost certain conviction ten years later he killed himself - Epstein-style - in his cell. Smith lived to be 100.
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#023: In 1928 Decasto Eugene Mayer and his mother Mary Ellen Smith murdered a guy, chopped him up, and stole his car. The body was never found, but Mayer confessed after being subjected to relatively new interrogation techniques - injections of truth serum and the lie detector. On the eve of his almost certain conviction ten years later he killed himself - Epstein-style - in his cell. Smith lived to be 100.