"Millionaire Orphan"
Died after eating oysters
Son of William McClintock d 1907 and Emma Catherine Nelson, d 1909
William "Billy" McClintock died of an unusually virulent form of typhoid fever. Several months before, Billy had signed a will drafted by one of his guardians, lawyer William Shepherd, which left everything to Shepherd, but only if Billy died before his planned February 1925 wedding to Isabelle Pope.
William Shepherd and his wife Julia beat the charges of Billy's murder, but three physicians came forward to say that William Shepherd had approached them about obtaining typhoid germs. The body of Billy's mother was exhumed after 16 years and was found to contain enough mercury to have killed 2 people, and the Shepherds were the only likely sources.
The book "Fatal Fortune" by Virginia A. McConnell (2005) is about this tragedy.
(Billy's fiance Isabelle eventually married Melvin Veeder, then Randy Harrington.
Died after eating oysters
Son of William McClintock d 1907 and Emma Catherine Nelson, d 1909
William "Billy" McClintock died of an unusually virulent form of typhoid fever. Several months before, Billy had signed a will drafted by one of his guardians, lawyer William Shepherd, which left everything to Shepherd, but only if Billy died before his planned February 1925 wedding to Isabelle Pope.
William Shepherd and his wife Julia beat the charges of Billy's murder, but three physicians came forward to say that William Shepherd had approached them about obtaining typhoid germs. The body of Billy's mother was exhumed after 16 years and was found to contain enough mercury to have killed 2 people, and the Shepherds were the only likely sources.
The book "Fatal Fortune" by Virginia A. McConnell (2005) is about this tragedy.
(Billy's fiance Isabelle eventually married Melvin Veeder, then Randy Harrington.
"Millionaire Orphan"
Died after eating oysters
Son of William McClintock d 1907 and Emma Catherine Nelson, d 1909
William "Billy" McClintock died of an unusually virulent form of typhoid fever. Several months before, Billy had signed a will drafted by one of his guardians, lawyer William Shepherd, which left everything to Shepherd, but only if Billy died before his planned February 1925 wedding to Isabelle Pope.
William Shepherd and his wife Julia beat the charges of Billy's murder, but three physicians came forward to say that William Shepherd had approached them about obtaining typhoid germs. The body of Billy's mother was exhumed after 16 years and was found to contain enough mercury to have killed 2 people, and the Shepherds were the only likely sources.
The book "Fatal Fortune" by Virginia A. McConnell (2005) is about this tragedy.
(Billy's fiance Isabelle eventually married Melvin Veeder, then Randy Harrington.
Died after eating oysters
Son of William McClintock d 1907 and Emma Catherine Nelson, d 1909
William "Billy" McClintock died of an unusually virulent form of typhoid fever. Several months before, Billy had signed a will drafted by one of his guardians, lawyer William Shepherd, which left everything to Shepherd, but only if Billy died before his planned February 1925 wedding to Isabelle Pope.
William Shepherd and his wife Julia beat the charges of Billy's murder, but three physicians came forward to say that William Shepherd had approached them about obtaining typhoid germs. The body of Billy's mother was exhumed after 16 years and was found to contain enough mercury to have killed 2 people, and the Shepherds were the only likely sources.
The book "Fatal Fortune" by Virginia A. McConnell (2005) is about this tragedy.
(Billy's fiance Isabelle eventually married Melvin Veeder, then Randy Harrington.
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