Inquest

Following the decision not to prosecute, Inga's family asked for the case to be examined independently and their legal representatives proposed a panel which would include of an independent pathologist, a lawyer and a senior police officer from outside of Northern Ireland.

They also contacted the coroner and requested an inquest into Inga's death.

So while the criminal investigation had been unable to produce a prosecution, an inquest could still examine the circumstances in which Inga died and give them some form of answers.

During the early stages of that process, another unusual problem emerged though.

It appeared that an inquest into Inga's death had already been opened in 1990, two years after her murder, but as far as the later coroner's court could establish, the inquest had closed without hearing any evidence and without returning a verdict.

And obviously without telling her family.

The paperwork associated with those proceedings couldn't be located anymore.

So there was no complete record explaining what actually happened here.

Three of the illustrations in this book were drawn from memory.

The view of the Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown and the scene in the prison yard were obtained from photographs.

In searching for facts in regard to the subject of this volume, I was assisted by several gentlemen, to whom I hereby return many thanks.

Histories of noted criminals are always interesting, and I trust this one will be no exception to the rule.

I kept sticking it in the mud until it was clean and there was no blood on it.

At the conclusion of the interview, Pomeroy was taken to the Suffolk County Jail on Charles Street, Boston, to await the action of the coroner's jury.

The preliminary inquest, commonly known as The View, was held at Undertaker Waterman's, under the supervision of Coroner Allen.

The jury was composed of the following named gentlemen.

So...

Let's have a look now, post-Inquest.

So, after all of the initial fuss and bother, there was, in 78, an ABC TV documentary, Inside Story, and they produced the... produced the Somerton Beach Mystery, and we've talked about that earlier.

And in 1994, John Phillips, Chief Justice of Victoria and Chairman of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, reviewed the case to determine the cause of death and concluded there seemed little doubt it was digitalis, which is...