Dermatologist convicted of killing wife is found dead in cell

To the man who won a conviction against him, Richard J. Sharpe was a narcissistic and manipulative murderer, a cross-dressing millionaire dermatologist from Gloucester who fatally shot his estranged wife and hatched a brazen plot from prison to kill the prosecutor. (Full article: 700 words)

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