Loren and Dora Doxey

[6][7] In December 1895, at the age of 16, Dora married Robert L. Downing, one of her teachers at Joy High School.

Dora Doxey married Fred Whitney in 1912 in Orofino, Idaho, and George Thomas in 1919, supposedly in the same city.

[8] Loren and Dora Doxey began a sexual relationship while she was a patient of his and she was still married to Robert Downing.

[4] In December 1909, the authorities in St. Louis found traces of arsenic in the body of William J. Erder,[9] and murder indictments were issued by a grand jury against the two Doxeys, both of them having been arrested on suspicion.

[10][11] Former Lieutenant Governor Charles P. Johnson was engaged as the attorney for both[12] The murder charges were separated, and Dora Doxey was put on trial in May and June 1910.

[17] While serving time in the county jail in Clayton, Missouri, she carried on a flirtation via a series of letters and whispered conversations with another inmate, Earl Wheeler.