Crime & Safety
New Book to Detail Greineder Murder and Trial
The book, co-written by former Boston Herald reporter Tom Farmer and former lead state police detective Marty Foley, will be released Oct. 9.
The murder case that shook Wellesley will be laid out on the pages of a new book to be released next month.
Former Boston Herald reporter Tom Farmer and former lead state police detective Marty Foley teamed up to write A Murder in Wellesley: The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor’s Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial that Gripped the Nation, according to The Swellesley Report today. The book is set to be released Oct. 9, according to the book's publicity website.
The book will detail the events of Oct. 31, 1999, when famed allergist Dirk Greineder led his wife Mabel on a walk at Morses Pond where she was found dead. Dirk Greineder was convicted of his wife’s murder in 2001.
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In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court review the case based on a DNA ruling in Chicago.
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