As a young attorney, Jeffrey Amestoy was awaiting his first-ever court appearance. It was at the Windsor County Courthouse in Woodstock, and he was killing time in the “lawyers’ room,” making chit-chat as he waited his turn before the judge. A photograph on the wall caught his eye, and he asked his colleagues what the story was behind it.

He learned that day the image was taken at the time of one of the most infamous murder trials ever heard in Vermont, and that it had played out in the very courtroom he was about to enter.

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