Beauty Defense James Laura
Beauty Defense James Laura Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in…
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Beauty Defense James Laura
Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more than a century, across cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes.
She solved the problem, James writes, with arsenic-laced chocolates. But all were so beautiful, as James demonstrates, that they got away with murder.When Madeline Smith, a Glasgow socialite, tried to end a relationship with one man to date another, her jilted lover proved difficult to shake. And in Warrenton, Virginia, mild-mannered heiress