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From The Times April 15, 2009 Phil Spector: murder, madness and shocking hair Chris Ayres, Los Angeles During the 11 months that he spent on trial for murder, Phil Spector said nothing. Not a word. Not a peep. Not a single da-doo-ron-ron, da-doo-ron-ron. His wigs, however, told you pretty much everything you needed to know: at times they were so implausibly massive that the man's head appeared to be encircled by its very own weather system. And then, of course, there was the cake-icing foundation that he chose to shovel atop those ghoulish, sunken features, not to mention the long-tailed...

This time the jury did not ignore the habit Phil Spector had of playing Russian roulette with women. After so many times of "playing" the game, Lana Clarkson was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time with Phil Spector who's luck had run out. With a chance to find Phil Spector innocent, guilty of 2nd degree murder or involuntary manslaughter, the jury found Spector guilty of 2nd degree murder.

LOS ANGELES- Five weeks into the Phil Spector murder trial, it's time for the prosecution to change course, moving the courtroom drama from personal stories into the critical phase of forensic evidence. Fans of "CSI" are likely to be riveted. Now there will be discussions of blood spatter, fibers, gunshot residue, DNA and the path a bullet took when it killed actress Lana Clarkson. A coroner and crime lab technicians are due on the witness stand beginning Tuesday to explain how such evidence can offer insight into what happened at Spector's castle-like mansion on Feb. 3, 2003. A gunshot that...

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) -- Legendary record producer Phil Spector, whose "Wall of Sound" helped change pop music in the 1960s, was booked for investigation of murder Monday in the deadly shooting of a woman at his hilltop mansion, sheriff's deputies said. A weapon was seized. The victim was identified as 40-year-old Lana Clarkson, of Los Angeles, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Richard Westin. Investigators would not say what her relationship was to Spector. Spector, 62, was arrested around 5 a.m. at the castle-like estate 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles, and was released shortly after 7 p.m. after...