The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights

They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colbyan attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewifebet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the State of Ohio in 1966, which would seek to prosecute her for shooting to death Cremer Young Jr., her sons nine-year-old playmate: Colby had deftly cleaned up after herself by hiding the childs body miles from her home and concealing the weapon.