Candace Mossler (née Weatherby; February 18, 1920 – October 26, 1976) was a socialite at the center of a sensational, highly publicized murder trial in the 1960s.
During initial interviews with police officers, Candace Mossler asserted that she believed her husband's death was a result of a burglary gone wrong.
[2] Melvin Powers was defended by top-ranked Houston defense lawyers Percy Foreman and William F Walsh,[2][3] the former a high-profile attorney who years later defended James Earl Ray, the man convicted for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. As the assets Mossler was set to inherit from her late husband were frozen at the time of her arrest pending the investigation of his death, Mossler paid Foreman's retainer with jewelry, diamonds, and furs that had been bought for her by her late husband before their separation.
Prior to her arrest, Mossler had flown to Rochester, Minnesota, to undergo treatment at the Mayo Clinic for migraines,[4] When reporters confronted her with allegations of adultery, incest, and murder, she simply replied, "Well, nobody's perfect."
On October 26, 1976, Mossler died of an accidental overdose of a migraine medication in a Miami Beach, Florida hotel room.