Chester Gillette and Grace Brown
The young man the character of George Eastman was somewhat based on, was as handsome as Montgomery Clift. Those who have written about Chester Gillette mostly believe he was guilty of the murder of Grace Brown, and that it didn't happen like it was portrayed in the movie. I think poor Grace must have thought that she could use sex to get him to marry her. I guess you might say she got pregnant, intentionally. Since birth control methods were primitive, at the time, any intercourse was likely to result in pregnancy. People weren't that well educated about sex, but certainly Chester would have known he was taking a very big chance of that happening. I'm not completely convinced that he intended to kill her, but it's hard to tell where the actual information stops and fiction starts.
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