the loose brick and found behind it Alice's diary that came open and Sara found that Alice had written about her suspicions about Lee. At that moment Lee came home and discovered Sara upstairs reading the diary and tried to murder Sara with one of loose floor boards knocking her out and leaving her for dead, fortunately Joe showed up and accessing the situation fought with Lee nearly losing when Lee started to choke him. Joe fought Lee off and pushed him hard backwards that made Lee going flying and then falling out of the glass of the bay window and three stories to his death! After Sara recovered at Cedars from her injuries, Sara was indeed grateful to Joe for saving her life and Joe was also exonerated in the death of Lee with it being ruled an accident and self-defense. And despite Kit and Charlotte wishing otherwise on New Year's Eve 1970 (December 31, 1970), Sara and Joe were married. Nurse Leslie Jackson Bauer's marriage to Stanley Norris ended up being a somewhat not very funny joke, as Leslie attended to her and Ed's new son Frederick "Freddy" (later Rick) and Stanley continued to have affairs all over town. Then in September 1971, Stanley Norris was found in his office shot to death. There were many suspects to the murder in Springfield, as many people were identified as having threatened him. But put on trial for the murder of Stanley was his third wife, Leslie, who was discovered by an employee of Stanley's over his dead body. (Charles Eiler also told the police that while he was walking his dog out in the rain, he saw Leslie running through the park in the pouring rain, earlier that evening, crying and shouting, "I could kill that man!") Mike Bauer would defend Leslie (as he had Peggy almost two years earlier). In the end, Marion Conway would confess to shooting Stanley because she was deeply troubled that her daughter, Linell had fantasies about her boss, Stanley, divorcing Leslie and marrying her. Stanley treated Linell like garbage. After Marion's eleventh-hour confession, she would suffer a heart attack and die in the courtroom. After Leslie was acquitted of Norris' murder, Linell left Springfield to make a fresh start. Through all of this, Mike's marriage to Charlotte continued to go down hill as all the stories that Mike was hearing from Hope and