When Mary Horton Vail died on Oct. 28, 1962, her husband, Felix Vail, told police she drowned in a freak accident in the Calcasieu River in Louisiana. He wasn’t prosecuted at the time, but more than 50 years later – after two other women he was last seen with went missing – his luck finally ran out.
SOURCES STATE of Louisiana V. VAIL; 17–354; 12-28-2017 (appeal) STATE of Louisiana v. William Felix VAIL