The witnesses and experts, both medical and legal, were in place. When the judge entered the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the bailiff said, "All rise, Department 25 is now in session." A colleague turned to Los Angeles Sheriff's detective Harold White and said, "Whitey, are you ready?" Whitey nodded his head and said, "Let's get this show on the road." The "show" was the prosecution's case in the murder trial against William Dale Archerd in 1967. Detective White first knew of Archerd when he was shown the file on the 1957 murder of Zella Archerd, one of Archerd's seven wives. A few...