Marion Corbett

On August 4, 1972, Marion Corbett, a 58-year-old white female pianist and composer, was murdered in her Barrington Hills home, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The tragedy unfolded when four men—Donald Taylor, Reuben Taylor, Michael Clark, and Nathaniel Burse—arrived at the Corbett residence under the pretense of asking for directions. All four were Black male Vietnam War veterans and alleged members of the De Mau Mau, a loosely organized militant group. The group had previously been implicate ...