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...first glance, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case. Priscilla, Gavrel and a girl friend with him that evening identified Davis as the assailant. The couple had been quarreling bitterly over money; only days before, Davis had been ordered to increase support payments to Priscilla to $5,000 a month. A negligible amount, perhaps, for an heir of Kendavis Industries, a conglomerate valued between $300 million and $1 billion, but Davis was in debt at the time, and the presiding judge had ordered his assets frozen until the terms of the divorce were settled...
With her hip-hugger jeans and Indian jewelry, Priscilla has never been a favorite of Forth Worth society-one executive described her as "a lady who looked like she had spent too much time in bowling alleys"-and Haynes has concentrated less on an alibi for Davis than on his wife's reputation. Last week he put on the stand William Rufner, a convicted felon and former lover of Priscilla's, hoping to depict him as a possible suspect. Priscilla stands to gain millions by her husband's conviction, Haynes argued, while Gavrel, the other key witness...
...wildly divergent as the testimony was, with the money and life of a millionaire at stake, every story had some plausibility. "You have Cullen Davis and Priscilla," summed up ex-Prosecutor Judge George Dowlen. "Both know exactly what happened, and who is telling the truth and who is lying. No one else can say for a certainty...
MARINA AND LEE by Priscilla Johnson McMillan Harper & Row; 527 pages...
Conspiracy theorists beware! Priscilla Johnson McMillan has come forward with the first plausible explanation for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John...