***SPOILERS*** The made for TV movie "The Case of the Glass Coffin" seems to be the first case that defense attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, handled that he not only won which is like almost 100% of the cases he takes on but was actually an eye witness to!
It's when world famous magician David Katz, Peter Scolari, did his flying coffin act at Denver's famous Paramount Theater that when the latch opened to show that no one was in it the coffin girl Kate Ford, Nancy Lee Grahn, suddenly popped out and fell some 30 feet to her death by breaking her neck! As things soon came out it was Kate who blackmailed David in getting her to be the coffin girl which may well have been the reason for him to do her in!
Threatening to go public in David having an affair with her on a cold night back in Portland, after having one too many shots of Yukon Jack, Kate has the evidence in her being impregnated by him! Now with both his marriage to his faithful wife Judy, Kim Barden, as well as career in jeopardy David may well have been driven to murder Kate in order to keep her from talking! What ended up in saving David from taking a trip to the Colorado State death house was Terry Weidner, Kate Vernon, who secretly videotaped the entire glass coffin event that in the end proved that David was in fact innocent! ***SPOILERS**** Innocent in him not knowing that he was set up to take the rap by something who was part of the glass coffin act! Someone who had it in for Kate and waited eight years to get the chance to kill her for something she did back in her home town of Hasting when she was then known as Greta Eisner!
It's both Perry's legman and human punching bag Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, as well as Terry who tracked down Kate's previous existence as Greta Eiseman and what it had to do with her being murdered as Kate Ford eight years later. Malansky for his part really gets worked over by some local homeboys for his snooping around in Hastings into business that Kate's pop Mr.Henry Eisner, Richard Jury, wants him to keep his nose out of! In the end the truth comes out in what exactly Kate or Greta did back there that had someone go so far as to get a job with David's magic show so that he or she can get their hands on her and put Kate in the local hospital morgue! Something that was covered up back in Hasting and kept from seeing the light of day until Malansky and Terry finally unearthed it!
It's when world famous magician David Katz, Peter Scolari, did his flying coffin act at Denver's famous Paramount Theater that when the latch opened to show that no one was in it the coffin girl Kate Ford, Nancy Lee Grahn, suddenly popped out and fell some 30 feet to her death by breaking her neck! As things soon came out it was Kate who blackmailed David in getting her to be the coffin girl which may well have been the reason for him to do her in!
Threatening to go public in David having an affair with her on a cold night back in Portland, after having one too many shots of Yukon Jack, Kate has the evidence in her being impregnated by him! Now with both his marriage to his faithful wife Judy, Kim Barden, as well as career in jeopardy David may well have been driven to murder Kate in order to keep her from talking! What ended up in saving David from taking a trip to the Colorado State death house was Terry Weidner, Kate Vernon, who secretly videotaped the entire glass coffin event that in the end proved that David was in fact innocent! ***SPOILERS**** Innocent in him not knowing that he was set up to take the rap by something who was part of the glass coffin act! Someone who had it in for Kate and waited eight years to get the chance to kill her for something she did back in her home town of Hasting when she was then known as Greta Eisner!
It's both Perry's legman and human punching bag Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, as well as Terry who tracked down Kate's previous existence as Greta Eiseman and what it had to do with her being murdered as Kate Ford eight years later. Malansky for his part really gets worked over by some local homeboys for his snooping around in Hastings into business that Kate's pop Mr.Henry Eisner, Richard Jury, wants him to keep his nose out of! In the end the truth comes out in what exactly Kate or Greta did back there that had someone go so far as to get a job with David's magic show so that he or she can get their hands on her and put Kate in the local hospital morgue! Something that was covered up back in Hasting and kept from seeing the light of day until Malansky and Terry finally unearthed it!