In a quiet, almost deserted Bridgeport (Conn.) courtroom last week, State's Attorney Lorin W. Willis asked that the case be dismissed. He droned that he had "... a reasonable doubt or more" that Imogene Stevens was guilty of manslaughter. Tiger-eyed Imogene, killer of 19-year-old Navy Seaman Albert Kovacs while she was "in an aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing" (the coroner's report), was free.
Tabloid readers sighed with disappointment : they had been hoping to hear, in all its details and in several different versions, the story of what happened that June night in sedate New Canaan. Others, notably the...
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