The gold watch, with its closed case and clasp, was etched with the initials L.P.C., her maiden name: Lucina Phillips Courser.
"[12] Wood and his team had arrived in Barre on May 7, the same day as Lucina's funeral, before her body was transferred to Johnson for burial.
"[14] When Wood arrived in Barre, he met with Frank C. Archibald, the Vermont Attorney General, and other local officials.
[15] It had already been deduced that Lucina had been murdered at the Buzzell Hotel and her body moved to the garden where it was ultimately found.
Wood, however, quickly dismissed this theory since Harry had "a perfect alibi" for all of his activities the night of the murder.
Harry had told Wood that Lucina had a good friend by the name of Grace Grimes, who had relocated to the Boston area.
[19] During the interview with Grace it surfaced that Parker ran a brothel and hosted "so-called cheating parties.
[21] Upon his return to Vermont, Wood interviewed Isabelle Parker, who admitted that Lucina had been at her house the night of the murder and met with Long.
There was evidence that Lucina and Long had dinner together and her autopsy showed that she had eaten approximately one hour before her murder.
[22] A search of Parker's house revealed the "Famous Red Book", which listed her customers, "many prominent people, both male and female, of Barre, Vermont.
After disclosing what Parker admitted to, Long finally confessed to knowing Lucina, but denied murdering her.
It was Wood who found two major clues: The tire track was eventually traced back to a car rented by Long.
[20]On May 15, George Long and Isabelle Parker were arrested and taken to the Washington County jail in Montpelier.
[34] On October 24, Daisy Luce testified that she spoke with George Long the morning that Lucina's body was discovered.
[26] In its closing statement, the defense argued that Long had no motive to kill Lucina since they were intimate partners.
At 3:30, the jury announced that George Long was found guilty of the second-degree murder of Lucina C. Broadwell.
Sentencing was set for November 5, at which time he was ordered to serve a term of life imprisonment.
In 1922, the Vermont Supreme Court held in State v. Long that "[t]he record shows a brutal killing--one unmistakably indicating cool depravity of heart and wanton cruelty.
Parker, while initially implicated in Lucina's murder, was only charged with "conducting a house of ill fame.
In 2006, Vermont historian Patricia Belding published One Less Woman, a book that chronicles the events following Lucina's murder.
Belding's book relies heavily on the newspaper reports of the Barre Daily Times for information regarding the murder and the trials of both Long and Parker.
In a 2020 podcast, Jill Lepore, a history professor at Harvard University and a writer for The New Yorker magazine, revisited the case and the original file transcripts and concluded that whether he was guilty or not, Long was convicted on moral grounds: not because of any material evidence, but because he had provided a contraceptive to Mrs. Broadwell, had sex with her, and lied about it.