The Region - News from Feb. 25, 1987

The 23-year-old son of 1950s actress Susan Cabot-Roman has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to fatally beating her in their home last December. Attorney Chester Leo Smith said Timothy Scott Roman, who suffers from dwarfism and was treated for 15 years with an experimental growth hormone that has caused neurological problems in some patients, may claim self-defense, diminished capacity or insanity. The actress appeared in several films with such actors as Rock Hudson, Lee Marvin, Tony Curtis and Maureen O’Hara. The son initially blamed the killing on a man dressed like a Japanese ninja warrior.