Mrs. Esther Delaney murder case

Associated Press · March 12, 1961

Mrs. Esther Delaney, Eau Gallie, Fla., is being held in the Brevard County jail, Titusville, on an open charge of murder. Mrs. Delaney, a secretary at Patrick A.F.B., is being held under suspicion of murdering her husband, Thomas Delaney, an employee at Canaveral Missile Center, and keeping his body in a box in her home for the past 18 months. Friends discovered the body Thursday, more than a year after Mrs. Delaney had obtained a divorce on grounds of desertion.