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Originally Posted by JWBear

All true. But since he was aquitted and not convicted, he therefore was not technically a murderer.

From the always reliable Wikipedia

In 1874, while still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his young wife Flora had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On 17 October, he sought out Larkyns and said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here's the answer to the letter you sent my wife." He shot and killed the major pointblank.[15]

Muybridge was tried for murder. His defense attorney pleaded insanity due to a head injury that Muybridge had sustained following his stagecoach accident. Friends testified that the accident had dramatically changed Muybridge's personality from genial and pleasant to unstable and erratic. The jury dismissed the insanity plea, but he was acquitted for "justifiable homicide". The episode interrupted his horse photography experiment, but not his relationship with Stanford, who paid for his criminal defense.[16]

After the acquittal, Muybridge left the United States for a time to take photographs in Central America, returning in 1877. Having divorced his wife and been awarded custody of their son, Florado Helios Muybridge (nicknamed "Floddie" by friends), as was customary at the time, he had the boy put in an orphanage while he was out of the country. Muybridge believed Larkyns to be the boy's biological father but, as an adult, Florado was reported as bearing a remarkable resemblance to Muybridge. Florado Muybridge worked as a ranch hand and gardener. In 1944 he was hit by a car in Sacramento and killed.

Fascinating! Leland Stanford paid for his defense.