The “Poker-Faced Schoolgirl” Who Killed Her Mother and Blamed Her Boyfriend
To outsiders, 17-year-old Gladys MacKnight seemed an unlikely killer, as did her boyfriend, 18-year-old Donald Wightman. But to those who knew the high school sweethearts, the death of Gladys’ mother, Helen, wasn’t entirely shocking. (Though being hacked to death in one’s own kitchen certainly is.) It was August 1936; both Gladys and Donald had graduated…
