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Jean S. Harris, Killer of Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Is Dead at 89 (New York Times)
much more at link aboveJean S. Harris, the private-school headmistress whose 1981 trial for the murder of a prominent Scarsdale, N.Y., physician galvanized a nation mulling feminist perspectives with its story of vengeance by an aging woman scorned, died on Sunday at an assisted-living facility in New Haven. She was 89.
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For more than a year from her arrest on March 10, 1980, to her sentencing for second-degree murder on March 20, 1981 Mrs. Harriss case was front-page news.
The trial provided the fascination of a love triangle involving the cultivated headmistress of an exclusive girls school, a wealthy cardiologist whose book, The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, had been a best-seller and an attractive younger rival for his affection. If Mrs. Harris was to be believed, it was the story of an attempted suicide by a jilted woman that turned into the unintentional shooting of the man who had ditched her.
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