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Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her LA institution by an mysterious assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body was found days and nights later, sent to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom money. When William Hickman was hunted down and priced with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying depth, but that was only the beginning. His insanity plea was the first of its kind in the annals of California, and the nature of the criminal offenses led to a multimedia frenzy unlike any the united states had seen up to that point. Hickman's lawyers argued that their client resided in a illusion world, encouraged by movies, struggling to tell from incorrect. The movie industry scrambled to safeguard its exploding level of popularity (and income) from ruinous publicity. Outside of the courtroom, a country grew starved for every awful depth, and the multimedia was only too pleased to feed that food cravings. David Wilson, an exclusive investigator for over 30 years, catches the maelstrom of Marion Parker's loss of life in vivid depth. From the criminal offenses itself to the manhunt that adopted, from the unprecedented trial to its aftermath, Wilson pulls the listener into the labor and birth of the celebrity criminal.
