Download or read book The Congressman Who Got Away with Murder written by Nat Brandt and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most infamous scandal to shake the nation's capital: a New York Congressman's murder of his wife's lover, Washington's district attorney, the son of the man who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Representative Dan Sickles shot Philip Barton Key in front of seven witnesses, his plea of not guilty based on a totally new legal defense, temporary insanity.