Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case.

The von Bülow case was a landmark American criminal proceeding of the 1980s centered on Claus von Bülow, who was accused of attempting to murder his wife, socialite and heiress Martha “Sunny” von Bülow, allegedly by injecting her with insulin—an accusation that followed her collapse into a coma at their Newport, Rhode Island home in December 1980. The first trial ended in a 1982 conviction, but the verdict was later overturned on appeal, and von Bülow was ultimately acquitted at a second trial in 1985, with the defense emphasizing alternative explanations such as prescription drug use and disputing key forensic interpretations.