This is the 12th in a series.
In June 1930, the nation’s newspapers descended upon the Ocean County courthouse to cover a sensational murder trial.
Famous detective Ellis Parker had helped to break the case of two sailors murdered in a Lakehurst, N.J. apartment. Eventually Parker would uncover a plot by three Marines and Hattie Evans to kill her husband and his friend.
The first trial involved Hattie and the marksman shooter, Lester Underdown. The two other Marines would be tried separately and had testified for the…
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