Preacher’s Son and Magician on Trial for Deadly Plot to Seduce, Gaslight and Kill Elderly Author and Lonely Headmistress

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The alleged victim, a retired author, said he felt like Shakespeare’s King Lear, who had been cognizant throughout his own mental breakdown.

Published May 3 2019 10:48PM EDT

On a bleak morning in the autumn of 2015, Peter Farquhar, a retired English professor and novelist, wrote in his journal that he feared he was spiraling into madness.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Preacher’s Son and Magician on Trial for Deadly Plot to Seduce, Gaslight and Kill Elderly Author and Lonely Headmistress

The alleged victim, a retired author, said he felt like Shakespeare’s King Lear, who had been cognizant throughout his own mental breakdown.

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Barbie Latza Nadeau