CRIME: Murder or Mercy?

For 29 years after the birth of his child, Detroit Symphony Musician Eugene Braunsdorf did everything in his power to make her happy and comfortable. It was a heartbreaking task; Virginia was a spastic child, and grew slowly into a helpless parody of womanhood. At 21, she was only four feet tall, could not hold her head upright, and talked in gobbling sounds which only her father could understand.

At one time, to keep her at home and well attended, Braunsdorf had four jobs—one playing the bass viol with the orchestra, one teaching music, one on a Ford assembly line,...

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