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In the early hours of 21st April 1932, a young writer called Haden Clarke was found shot in the head as he lay in bed, at a bungalow in Coral Gables, Florida. The following morning he died. He left suicide notes to the two famous aviators he shared the bungalow with - Captain Bill Lancaster and Chubbie Miller. Detectives at the scene believed it was a case of suicide - but the dead man's mother doubted her son had written the notes, and the gun found at the scene had been purchased by the other man, Captain Lancaster, just two days previously. There were no fingerprints on the gun, either, which suggested it had been wiped clean by someone... When State Attorney Nathaniel Hawthorne discovered a diary written by Captain Lancaster, and letters between the three occupants of the bungalow, it became clear that a very curious relationship existed between them. Was it possible that Haden Clarke had been murdered? Mark John Maguire, whose acclaimed Youtube True Crime documentary channel "They Got Away With Murder" specializes in unsolved murder cases, has spent some years investigating the murder at Coral Gables in Miami. This is the story of a terrible night in April 1932, and of someone who got away with murder - and what followed...