Fowler v. State

On November 6, 1966 at approximately 4:15 p.m., Linda Keller, a seventeen year old nurse’s aid (referred to in hospital parlance as a “Pinkie”), was found nude, bloody, and beaten in the boiler room of the Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore. She had been stabbed numerous times and her clothes were missing. She died five days later without regaining consciousness.

Appellant, an employee of the hospital, was arrested at his home on March 25, 1967 on a charge; of negotiating a stolen certified check. He was interrogated by the police about this offense on March 25 and 26, and on March 27, for…