Let Jury Pass the Verdict in Mayberry, U.S.A.

My husband and I are very good friends with the family that lives in Mayberry, U.S.A. (“Was It Murder in Mayberry?” Nov. 8, Dianne Klein column). For your information I want you to know that the husband and wife met when the wife was 13 and the husband was 20 and he taught her her bat mitzvah. They were madly in love for many years and had to get through other marriages just to be together. The husband was first married and got divorced and took custody of his two children and brought them up alone before he remarried. The two little children with this wife were conceived with lots of love and as much as his wife loved all the children, so did the husband.

We don’t know exactly what happened, but what we do know is that this is America and a person is not guilty until proven guilty. Whether the wife died from suicide or murder . . . let the jury decide. Let the jury hear the whole story from the husband and let those who know the family talk in court . . .

Marcie Dietz-Lipsett,

Sherman Oaks