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William Douglas was tried and convicted of Robin’s murder. Douglas was a Tufts University Medical School professor. He was married for almost 20 years to his wife, Nancy, and lived with their children in Sharon.
Authorities believe she was murdered by one of her clients, William Henry James Douglas, an anatomy professor at Tufts University Medical School. A photo of Douglas is posted with this case summary. According to prosecutors, Douglas met Benedict in April 1982 and quickly became obsessed her.
William H.J. Douglas, 42, called by his attorney a 'victim of sex and dope and intrigue,' received the maximum sentence for the March 5, 1983 murder of Robin Benedict during a fight in his...
Massachusetts correction officials said William H. Douglas, 51, was released from prison in Enfield, Conn., after serving just nine years of an 18- to 20-year sentence for manslaughter for...
Criminal case study: 40 years later, Benedict murder highlights prosecution challenges. Murder victim Robin Nadine Benedict, killed in 1983. William Douglas, the Tufts professor who killed...
Tufts biology professor Dr. William Douglas allegedly "picked her up" as a prostitute in Boston's now highly diminished, but then infamous red light district known as "The Combat Zone" Douglas formed an expensive and lengthy obsession with Benedict.
The Professor and the Prostitute, the titular murder case in Linda Wolfe’s collection of true crime short stories, goes into the gory details about the deadly affair and Douglas’s struggle to dispose of his mistress’s lifeless body.
