I hope the story is famous enough that someone will recognize it, but I’ve got a bad track record discovering the ID of many old stories that rattle around in my head. More background (100% spoilers below):
- I read this as a kid in the early 1970s; it was a book of my mom’s which I assumed was at least 10 or 20 years old at the time.
- Short story length; not a novel; part of a collection of short stories.
- I always had an idea it was Ray Bradbury, but no longer think that.
- The story is about telepathy, and may have a reference to telepathy in the title.
- In it, an accused wife-killer is brought to trial. He’s pretty obviously guilty, but one woman juror has doubts. She stares into his handsome, handsome face and feels they have a telepathic connection – he is pleading with her to believe in his innocence.
- She is the holdout juror for acquittal, and successfully brings the rest of the jury around.
- She and the acquitted man marry. She is proud of herself when she reveals, after their marriage, that she has a fair amount of money, which she has carefully saved up despite a modest income. He is pleased but not surprised, because she is clearly frugal and prudent, which is why he loves her.
- In a moment of tenderness he accidentally, telepathically reveals that he murdered his first wife for her money, and is now about to do the same thing again.