![]() ![]() But nobody had seen fit to charge Taylor with his ex-wife’s killing, and nobody in any position of authority, John told me, had bothered to ask him what he thought of Patricia’s friend. John Parks believed then and remained certain decades later that Taylor murdered Patricia. Taylor also took possession of the sick woman’s house on the South Side of Chicago and became the executor of her estate. Linda Taylor submerged Patricia in ice-cold water and fed her medications stored in unlabeled bottles. ![]() Patricia, who’d suffered from multiple sclerosis, had been treated at home by a friend who’d promised to make her feel better. ![]() Patricia Parks had been thirty-seven when she was pronounced dead of a barbiturate overdose on the night of June 15, 1975. “At first, it was just on the tip of my tongue. “Boy, you waited a long time to come,” the seventy-seven-year-old Parks said, struggling to remember details, such as Patricia’s age, that had once seemed unforgettable. We were sitting outside on a spring day in 2013, a little less than thirty-eight years since his ex-wife, Patricia, had died under suspicious circumstances. ![]()
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