A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler\'s adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day.
More than half a century later, the story was all but forgotten when local resident.
A politically charged coroner\'s inquest failed to determine a definitive cause of death, and the following civil action continued to expose sordid details of the couple\'s lives.
A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler\'s adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day
