The crime had all the ghoulish ingredients of a potboiler: the sudden disappearance of a wealthy landowner and Harvard graduate, George Parkman (pictured); another Harvard man - John Webster, a professor of chemistry and mineralogy - as prime suspect; a dismembered body presumed to be the victim’s; a sullen janitor who supplied the anatomy laboratory with cadavers; and a trial reported in screaming headlines.
The capital trial of a Harvard fellow was a sensation.
文本选自
：The Economist（经济学人）
作者
：Unknown
原文标题
：A murder that scandalised Harvard and the world
原文发布时间
：19 July 2018
