i asked this question of jean baker when she was here. i will ask this question of you. i'm not going to give you her response until you answer the question. i don't -- do you think mary was bipolar? >> i halved often said, and i will repeat, my doctorates in history, not in medicine, and i would suggest even if we brought mary onstage today, and she were examined, they would have divided views. i don't diagnose. i tried to lay out patterns of behavior. i very much respect my colleagues, jean baker has written about her narcissism, jason emerson has written about his diagnosis. and we have some new work about concussions and what head trauma can do. so i very much welcome that speculation, but i myself try to contextualize and i believe i was most moved to believe she was not bipolar, but had medication problems and psychological problems. especially when i read the wonderful letters jason emerson dug up written while she was incarcerated, confined by her son to an asylum during that very difficult period following the 10th anniversary of her husband's death. >> absolute

i very much respect my colleagues, jean baker has written about the narcissism of mary lincoln. jason emerson has written about his diagnosis exactly and we have new work coming out about concussions and what head trauma and injury can do. i very much welcome that speculation, but i myself try to contextualize and i believe i was ironically most moved to believe she was not bipolar but had medication problems and psychological problems, especially when i read the wonderful letters that jason emmerson dug up that were written while she was incarcerated confined by her son to an asylum during that very difficult period following the tenth anniversary of her husband's death. >> absolutely not. >> would you like to ask a question? >> mel burger, boston, mass. >> don't forget us over here. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> you should -- >> i must go to the left first mel. do you mind? i'll take this and come right back to you. yes, sir, i'm sorry. >> i'm jim mcgrath, i'm from buffalo, new york. >> hi, jim. sorry. >> grover cleveland territory and fannie. >> quite a bit of gossip around gro

jean baker has written about the narcissism of mary. we have some new work coming out about concussions and white head trauma can do. i very much welcome that speculation. i, myself, tried to contextualize. i believe that ironically i was most moved to believe that she was not bipolar, but had medication problems and psychological problems. especially when i read the wonderful letters that jason anderson dug up when she was incarcerated. during a difficult period following the 10th anniversary of her husband's death. >> absolutely not. >> would you like to ask a question? >> don't forget us over here. >> i'm sorry. we will take this and then come back to you. >> my name is jim mcgrath. i am from new york. >> quite a bit of gossip around grover cleveland. >> anyway, my question is __ mary lincoln did not like graham too much. she liked his wife less, julia. my question is __ she called him a butcher after cold harbor. in the 1870's, grant became presidents and secured some kind of pension for mary lincoln when she was financially struggl

detective david baker was called to the scene. >> her clothing was array, her jeans removed and her underclothes were strewn about. it was a cold night and she had a scarf around her neck and the scarf had, used to strangle her. >> she was very brutally attacked, sexually assaulted. >> word of lynda's murder traveled quickly in the otherwise quiet village. >> people were horrified, particularly those with young girls. >> a search of the crime scene turned up little substance but the autopsy turned up important clues of lynda mann's last moments alive. >> the absence of injury to her private parts, generally on her body there was very little injury to her which suggests it was not a violent attack and which she may have died very quickly. >> the conclusion was that she was strangled and then raped. is >>> a semen sample taken from lynda's body turned out to be a very important piece of evidence. it came from an evidence with type a blood. but this matched 10% of the adult male population in england. since lynda mann's body was found only a few hundred yards from a local psychiatric hospital, some