In August of 1965, the idyllic little community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was shaken to its foundation when housewife Mariann Colby shot to death her neighbor boy, eight-year-old Cremer Young Jr..
Attorney and professor William L. Tabac, author of “Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Marian Colby”, tells the story of the crime and her defense’s bold strategy in claiming that the seemingly sane woman was actually insane at the moment she pulled the trigger.
More about the book here: https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2017/the-insanity-defense-and-the-mad-murderess-of-shaker-heights/
