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From Wikipedia

Biography
Sherman was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Walter Allen Stults (a founder of Pi Kappa Lambda) and the former Edith Monica Graham. She graduated from Evanston Township High School and attended the Institute de Mme Collnot in Paris, France. In 1934, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University. The following year, she received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago. From 1935 to 1936, Sherman was an instructor at the University of Illinois French Institute in Paris.[1]

In 1941, she obtained a medical degree from the University of Chicago.[1] She interned at Bob Roberts Hospital at the University of Chicago.[1] In 1947, she was appointed assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Billings Hospital, also affiliated with the university. In 1952, she relocated to New Orleans to become director of the bone pathology laboratory at The Ochsner Clinic Medical Foundation, a creation of surgeon Alton Ochsner.[1][2] The next year she became an associate professor at New Orleans' Tulane Medical School.[2] A cancer researcher, she was also a senior visiting surgeon in orthopedics at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans.[1]

She was a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.[1] She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and Alpha Omega Alpha.[3]

Death
On July 21, 1964, Sherman was found dead in her apartment on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans.[4] The body had stab wounds and burns from a fire set in the apartment.[4] The police report classified the death as a murder. An autopsy was performed by Monroe S. Samuels, M.D., on July 21, 1964. The autopsy report classified Sherman's death as a homicide.[5] Dr. Samuels determined that Sherman died of a stab wound in her heart. Most of the right side of her upper torso, including her right arm had been incinerated.[6]

[K53]

Love this photo journalism

[GoreGirl89]

Man great post!! Love the vintage ones

[Dodger712]

Wow! That is in my home state of Louisiana. Strange. Looks more like spontaneous combustion burns but I wasn't there so what do I know? Yet another ghost haunting New Orleans.

[crismora12]

Someone didnt read the new rules

[Dodger712]

Maybe this should be moved to the Celebrity site?

[William May]

Originally Posted by crismora12 ↗

Someone didnt read the new rules

I don't think the rules would apply to a case this old. This is almost 60 years ago. Even copyrights are gone by then.

[DiamondSmiles]

Was the murderer ever found?

[kellyhound]

great pics some think there's more to this story.

A small fire had been set in her apartment which burned the mattress and some underwear. The body had been stabbed in the heart, liver, arm, leg, and stomach.

The wound to the heart hemorrhaged but the wound to the liver did not, indicating that she was alive at the time of the heart wound but already dead by the time the wound to the liver was inflicted.

Investigators determined that the massive burns inflicted upon her could not have occurred in her apartment. The details of her missing arm were not released to the public.

Sherman was murdered on the same day that the Warren Commission was scheduled to hear testimony about Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in Louisiana.

In 1995 Edward Haslam published Mary, Ferrie & the Monkey Virus: The Story of an Underground Medical Laboratory.

In it he claimes that Sherman was involved in carrying out secret research into developing a vaccine to prevent an epidemic of soft-tissue cancers, caused by polio vaccine contaminated with SV-40.

This work included using a linear particle accelerator located in the Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans.

According to Haslam there was a second-lab working on this project, being run by David Ferrie, a friend of Sherman, on Louisiana Avenue Parkway.

According to Baker, she and Oswald were hired by Reily in the spring of 1963 as a ‘cover’ for the operation. Edward Haslam argues that Sherman had an accident while using the linear particle accelerator. This explains why her body was so badly burnt. In an attempt to cover-up her secret research, Sherman was stabbed in the heart and then moved under cover of darkness to her apartment. A small fire was then started in an attempt to explain the burns on her body.

Haslam had everything, except a living witness. A few years after the publication of his book he got the final pieces of his puzzle. Judyth Vary Baker came forward about her 1963 adultery with Oswald. Baker – whose employment records show that she worked at the Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans at the same time Oswald did – claimed that in 1963 she was recruited to work with Dr. Alton Ochsner and Sherman on a clandestine CIA project to develop a biological weapon that could be used to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Baker’s story and her book Me & Lee finally disclosed a witness who could validate Haslam’s theory about the secret labs.

Haslam published Dr. Mary’s Monkey in 2007, an updated account on the death of Mary Sherman, with an additional chapter on the new, and quite feasible, theory about Oswald.

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Originally Posted by crismora12 ↗

Someone didnt read the new rules

Which rule specifically are you taking about?