Murder He Wrote

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice,[note 1] such as in the case of voluntary manslaughter brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is well, that happened, and it's a quick one
from me, New Jersey, May nineteen ninety six as the
time we're heading back to and a sixty seven year
old maths professor called Walter Perretchin. Walter was charged by
police with killing his wife. Apparently he'd bludged her to death,
but his explanation was given by a friend in court.
He said he'd been plunged into the depths of despair

(00:22):
and depression and didn't want her to think he was
a fool because he was afraid that his career and
his reputation would be ruined by a printing error in
his latest book, Generalized Topical Degree and Semi Linear Equations