Despite being gay he got married twice because as he said, he was trying to have a normal family. On September 6, 1951, however, he went way too far when he accidentally shot and killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, with whom he had a child, during what was reportedly a drunken attempt to imitate William Tell’s feat of shooting an apple off his son’s head. He was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175 in what was described as a “travesty of justice” by the Irish media. Dingley was not so lucky and died instantly. Neil’s blood alcohol level was .17, almost twice the California legal limit of .10 at the time and he shockingly got away with it, serving only thirty days in jail. Unfortunately Gordon’s life is also one of the most tragic and dramatic since June 3, 1983, when he murdered his mother during a schizophrenia episode, which had not yet been diagnosed, and was subsequently sentenced to life in a psychiatric prison. If Hernandez gets away with it, too, then we will totally lose trust in the justice system and in humanity as a whole. Unfortunately the woman died, but the doctors managed to save her son, Chancellor Lee Adams, who was born with a severe case of cerebral palsy and has to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair thanks to his “daddy.” Carruth and his accomplice are in prison, rotting away as they should be.
