{"product_id":"who-killed-betty-gail-brown-murder-mistrial-and-mystery-9780813174624","title":"Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?: Murder  Mistrial  and Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn October 26  1961  after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University  nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnightpresumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later  Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of campus  strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after lead went nowhere. Four years later  the police investigation completely stalled.  In 1965  a drifter named Alex Arnold Jr. confessed to the killing while in jail on other charges in Oregon. Arnold was brought to Lexington  indicted for the murder of Betty Gail Brown  and put on trial  where he entered a plea of not guilty. Robert G. Lawson was a young attorney at a local firm when a senior member asked him to help defend Arnold  and he offers a meticulous record of the case in Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? During the trial  the courtroom was packed daily  but witnesses failed to produce any concrete evidence. Arnold was an alcoholic whose memory was unreliable  and his confused  inconsistent answers to questions about the night of the homicide did not add up.  Since the trial  new leads have come and gone  but Betty Gail Browns murder remains unsolved. A written transcript of the court proceedings does not exist; and thus Lawson  drawing upon police and court records  newspaper articles  personal files  and his own notes  provides an invaluable record of one of Kentuckys most famous cold cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647373631541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813174627","price":25.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813174624.jpg?v=1781691937","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/who-killed-betty-gail-brown-murder-mistrial-and-mystery-9780813174624","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}