The Fatty Arbuckle case (1962)

foreign object. It just means there's no proof of such object." Brady and McNab continued at each other's throat. McNab said, "I have now had twelve close friends and acquaintances of Miss Rappe testify to the fact that she suffered from a chronic bladder region inflammation. She suffered agonizing periodic pain. She was a very sick girl. Are all these witnesses perjurers? Have they all been bribed?" "Perhaps," answered the ever-suspicious Brady. Friedman had this to say, "Arbuckle has contradicted himself several times in statements to the court, to friends, to witnesses and to police. When a man tells a half-dozen versions of the same story, it follows as two plus two equals four that he has bed. Then I say, Why has he lied?' IH tell you why. Because he has many things to hide— among them that on September 10th he cruelly and savagely raped and murdered Virginia Rappe." Arbuckle didn't flinch. He had heard this before. Unless the prosecution came up with any big surprise— and it certainly didn't look as if they could— he could not be visibly disturbed. Arbuckle's own physician testified that he was normal in every regard, was not over-sexed and was not overlyaggressive in any way. Friedman thought this type of information should come from a psychiatrist, but was willing to waive such examination. Another doctor, who had testified for the State in the second trial, had this testimony to offer (with many interruptions due to the nature of it ) : "We have had cases where men in their late years have married young girls and have, during intercourse, suffered heart attacks and died. Older men with weakened hearts are often susceptible to a heart failure during excessive exercise, emotional strain or both. Obviously, no charges are brought against the wife. The death is an act of God, in my opinion. Doctors consistendy warn elderly men not to exert themselves in intercourse and 125