X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Massie Trial


Massie Trial

On September 12, 1931 the couple attended a Navy event at the Ala Wai Inn, a Waikiki nightclub.

In his afterword to Damned in Paradise, Collins suggested that Robert Traver's 1958 novel, Anatomy of a Murder, was loosely inspired by the Massie case, involving, as it does, a military officer who murders the alleged rapist of his wife and the subsequent trial arising from that murder, with the setting changed from Honolulu to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the Naval officer changed to an Army officer.



see also