Video: 'American Justice: Amer Just: Von Bulow - Full Episode (S6, E13) | A&E' (Mar. 16, 1982, at 24:18)

(Tuesday, March 16, 1982, announced at approximately 11:15 a.m.) — Claus von Bülow, a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite, was found guilty today in Newport, Rhode Island, of twice trying to murder his wife with insulin injections so he would inherit $14 million and be free to marry his lover.

The tall, aloof defendant sat impassively with his hands folded as jury forewoman Barbara Connett twice declared “Guilty” after 36 hours of deliberations over six days. Outside, crowds cheered the 55-year-old Von Bülow and chanted, “Free Claus.” They booed the prosecutor and shouted, “Not guilty!”

Von Bülow, a businessman who stepped into a fairytale world of wealth with his marriage to utility heiress Martha “Sunny” von Bulow in 1966, was initially convicted of both the attempted murder of his wife in 1979, which had left her in a temporary coma, as well as an alleged insulin overdose in 1980 that left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life.

On appeal, both convictions were reversed, and Bülow was found not guilty at his second trial.