But after a successful appeal engineered by the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a second trial was held, and the verdict wrote a final chapter to a tale of wealth, passion and medical mystery that divided one of America's richest families, spun off books and movies, including "Reversal of Fortune" in 1990, and captivated much of the nation.
That Danny Graham delivered an equaliser – and ensured another chapter of a remarkable tale of one football club's growth – should have been the most arresting image of a weekend rescued by a match of impeccable competitive quality.
In today's most rehearsed narrative, Dr. King and President Obama are now the opening and closing chapters of a triumphant tale about how America finally overcame its tragic racial sins.
Listening to Shine On is like reading a book of transformational life moments, with each song serving as its own chapter in a tale of love, loss, deception, resilience, rebirth and, ultimately, independence.
Mr. McCain had wanted passionately to be that man, and his appearance beside Mr. Bush in California, Oregon and Washington this week could be seen as the latest chapter in a tale of political resignation.
Now only his widow and the artists he worked with are left to narrate his final chapter, a tale of bruised feelings and allegations of opportunism, with nothing more at stake than the writer's modest legacy.
In being transparent with everyone here about what it has taken to get this book delivered to readers and to enable this story to be told, piracy is an inevitable chapter of that tale still being written.
At 68, Mr. von NotHaus faces more than 20 years in prison for his crimes, and this decisive chapter of his tale has come, coincidentally, at a moment when his obsessions of 40 years — monetary policy, dollar depreciation and the Federal Reserve Bank — have finally found their place in the national discourse.
The opening chapter of a bizarre real life cautionary tale for would-be fraudsters began when the con-men, two brothers from Girona in Catalonia bought the Goya painting - a 80cmx60cm portrait of Spanish artist Antonio Maria Esquivel - in 2003.
In the latest chapter of the tale of Banana Joe, the affable affenpinscher who was named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night, this newly minted celebrity pooch is heading from Madison Square Garden to Studio 54 on Wednesday, where he will be joining the cast of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the Broadway musical adapted from the unfinished Charles Dickens novel.
