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Dec. 15, 2022
“Who Killed Jane Stanford”
Why no one was ever brought to justice for this crime remains a puzzling enigma.





Michael L. Stern
Judge (ret.)
Harvard Law, Boalt Hall
Judge Stern worked at the CRLA Santa Maria office from 1972 to 1975. He is chair of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Historical Committee.
Detective novel fans, history buffs and lawyers who relish knotty criminal messes will enjoy Richard White’s whodunit about the gruesome murder by strychnine poisoning of Stanford University co-founder Jane Lathrop Stanford and the ensuing cover-up that has hidden the truth regarding her death over a century ago.
Author White digs deeply into historical and medical records to resurrect the two attempts on Jane Stanford’s life in 1905. Fir...
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