HE WOKE UP PARALYZED INSIDE HIS OWN COFFIN… THEN HEARD HIS WIFE CELEBRATE HIS CREMATION

recorded, pretending not to care when his brother publicly named him as the reason he survived.

The trial began nine months later.

By then, Alexander had recovered enough to walk without a cane, though nightmares still woke him gasping in the dark. He could not sleep in enclosed rooms. He could not stand the smell of lilies. He had the coffin destroyed—not continue reading …