Did a serial killer go unrecognized?

[sdreid]

The Joseph Cotton Show: On Trial only ran for one regular season, the 1956-57.

In 1959, it was briefly revived as a summer replacement.

There were 35 total episodes - 31 on NBC in the original run and 4 on CBS in the brief revival.

[sdreid]

She was also known as Daisy Wallis and she was found dead on August 15 of 1949. Miss Wallis was described as a spinster but apparently had a rather active sex life that she made record of in one of her diaries. A man who was described as "Italian looking" was observed leaving the area of the murder but is a mystery as is the rest of the crime.

The aforesaid fleeing man was thought to be the same person seen with Daisy earlier.

[sdreid]

Daisy's "romance" diary didn't lead to any suspects so apparently her killer was a first time chance encounter.

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I don't know if she named names.

[sdreid]

I don't see Daisy listed as a nickname for Dorothy so I don't know where it came from.

[sdreid]

Must have just been a pet name.

[sdreid]

Since I can't find a middle name for Ms. Wallis, perhaps it's possible that one or the other name could have been that.

[sdreid]

The Wallis slaying actually reminds me of the murder scene of Anna Massey in the Hitchcock film Frenzy. I wonder if he used it as a pattern.

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Anna Massey, who died rather recently, also played Julia Wallace in The Man From the Pru.

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I believe Ms. Massey was a British citizen although her father, actor Raymond Massey, was a Canadian who later became an American citizen.

[Phil H]

Was not the actor Raymond Massey's brother (uncle to Anna) Governor General of Canada in his day?

Massey was a superb actor, often in saturnine roles: he was a fantastic Philip of Spain in Fire over England; "Black" Michael in The Prisoner of Zenda; and played multiple roles in Korda's "Things to Come". He ended up playing Dr Gillespie to Richard Chamberlain's Dr Kildare in the 60s.

Phil H

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Reboot

[sdreid]

Hi Phil:

I believe that's true and also Raymond was the son of the owner of the Massey-Ferguson (then Massey-Harris) Tractor Company. The role I most remember him for is as John Brown the fanatical abolitionist.

[sdreid]

From the same era, Massey also played Lincoln.

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I'm looking forward to seeing the new Lincoln film.