Harrison Graham: The Corpse Collector
Guilty, but...
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Judge Latrone found Graham guilty on all counts of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse.� As Latrone spoke, Graham sat up straight, blinked his eyes and shook his head.� Moldovsky later told reporters, "I assume he knows he was found guilty, but I'm not sure."� He then prepared to keep Graham from being executed during the sentencing phase.� Despite the evidence, Graham's mother still insisted that he was innocent.� "He's taking a fall," she said, meaning that he'd been set up by the landlord and his cronies.� "He don't know what's going on."
Graham actually laughed and signed autographs, claiming he was not worried.� "That's just how I am," he said.� He turned down the opportunity to allow a jury to decide his sentence.� He simply wanted his Cookie Monster back.� Moldovsky thought he should be spared the death penalty so that psychologists could study him.� A psychologist, Dr. Gerald Cooke, offered a statement that he had organic brain damage (although he was not an expert on the subject and this issue had already been dismissed by a neurologist).� Cooke also said that Graham suffered from "sexual sadism," which is not a mental illness that makes a person insane or absolves him of guilt, so he seemed to be an ineffective witness on key issues.
During all this, the Daily News printed a story about the relatives and friends of Cookie Mathis, a victim.� They discussed how they'd "known" when they'd first heard reports, that Cookie was among the victims.� Her husband heard about the shirt found on a body and knew it was his wife.� He'd bought it for her.
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