Then, during his court hearing in West Covina, Carole was arrested on the witness stand and charged as his accomplice. But the plan went awry and the conversation turned deadly with Barbara’s lifeless body ending up in her in-laws’ backyard next door.Īfter a high-speed chase with police, Finch was arrested the next morning in Las Vegas and charged with Barbara’s murder. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to speak to his wife Barbara about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. Or did the gun accidentally discharge as he claimed?Įarly in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and newspapers through three trials.ĭid the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife?
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