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The
Intruders: The
death of Mary Lou Ward is an enduring locked-room mystery. After inviting
her newlywed daughter Robin and Robin's husband to use her own home at 2249
Webster Street, Mary Lou - the personal secretary to socialite media personality
Pat Montandon - settled in for the night at Motandon's 2nd floor six-room
apartment at the foot of the Crooked Street on June 20, 1969. Montandon
was then living in the penthouse on the Summit
of Russian Hill with her husband, the butter baron Alfred Wilsey. Before
11 p.m., Montandon would survey the house from high above and wonder if
her friend had gone to bed for the night. Montandon could not see any light
coming from the windows of her apartment, and although Wilsey reminded Montandon
that little light ever shone through Montandon's window dressings, she decided
to phone Ward in the morning. At 4:01 a.m. the couple woke to the telephone
and the news that Ward was dead. Full feature >> |