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Nick Donahue is a fictional character that is based on a real person. It is unknown whether the real man ever married after his mother's death.

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Based on a real-life incident. In 1958, Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired two men to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law out of jealousy of her son, Frank, an attorney. As in the film, Frank met his wife, a nurse, at a hospital after Elizabeth attempted suicide in a ploy to keep him from leaving home, and, as in the film, he represented his mother at her trial. Duncan and the men were executed in San Quentin's gas chamber on August 8, 1962.

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