Harrison Graham: The Corpse Collector
Prosecution
Joel Moldovsky had honed his defense in preparation for how he was going to fight for his client: It wasn't just insanity, he said, it was multiple personalities.� Harrison Frank Graham, Jr., according to the Daily News, was presented as having three distinct personalities. "Frank" was a foulmouthed drug addict and murderer; "Junior" was an unmanageable two-year-old who adored the Cookie Monster, and "Marty" was the likeable handyman who worshipped his mother and had complied with the police to confess to the murders.� Graham had apparently fought with another inmate and blamed it on "Frank."� King dismissed all of this by saying that Graham was just a streetwise faker.
Graham's mother believed in his innocence throughout; she said that she'd never have turned him in if she believed he would be convicted.� It was her contention that he could not have purchased the blankets and sheets in which the bodies had been wrapped, so he did not kill them.� Someone else did.
On March 8, Graham waived his right to a jury trial and chose to have the judge decide his case.� Apparently his attorney and his mother had convinced him that a jury would be offended by the graphic evidence and would then be less objective than the judge.� Latrone had already heard much of the evidence, so the duration of the trial would be considerably shorter than expected.
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