Julia Wallace Murder Case

[AntiPathos]

The clincher, supposedly, for Wallace's innocence was the fact that on the night before the murder Wallace won his chess game against Chandler...
The argument goes that a man planning the perfect murder would not have been able to concentrate on his game.... Sounds quite persuasive to me...

The problem is that people have tried to find clinchers for all this time and there are none. And, as is de rigeur for this case, evidence can point both ways: it could equally be argued that the planning of the murder was well established in his mind by that point and that chess was helping his methodology and strategic thinking all along. The whole shebang (unfortunate choice of noun there) was just human chess after all.