At the request of Mr. Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd of Marion, Mont.
He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity.
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The case drew attention from top U.S. and Singapore government officials after Mr. Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd of Marion, Mont.
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The couple also found no evidence of a pulley system: there were no pulleys or holes in the ceramic walls in the bathroom, Mary Todd said.
The cottage, on the grounds of a military retirement community in northwest Washington, was a place Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd often used in the summer months.
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In 1866 he secured his national reputation when he was commissioned to paint additional pieces for the White House state dinner service originally purchased by Mary Todd Lincoln.
The dead man's parents, Rick and Mary Todd, are challenging the police's initial findings of suicide and contend their son may have been killed in connection with his work for Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics, where he researched sensitive technology.
"When I read the note I handed it back to the officer and I said my son may have killed himself, but he did not write this note, " Mary Todd said of meeting with authorities in Singapore last year.
The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.
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Parents Mary and Rick Todd met with a U.S. State Department representative this week in Washington.
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