The charge was murder and the victim was her husband of a half-century, Alan Goodman, who had been found dead in their Los Angeles home four months earlier. It would be another four months before Los Angeles prosecutors acknowledged that they didn’t have a case and dropped the charges. Six years later, Lois Goodman is still fighting to reclaim the reputation that was tarnished by the legal ordeal. Goodman wants to have the coroner change the cause of death on the death certificate to an accident. Goodman, 76, originally sued the Los Angeles Police Department and the detectives who investigated the case, along with the coroner’s office and Wang.

Source: National Post March 21, 2018 06:45 UTC