19 year old James Salamites was driving with five of his friends in Hartford, Connecticut the night of October 14, 1975. He drove through a green light, only to strike a vehicle going through the intersection.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.