“Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck came to be known as the ‘lonely hearts killers’  in the nation’s press. Their murder trial took place during the  scorching hot summer of 1949 in Bronx Criminal Court where the salacious  testimony of ‘abnormal sexual practices’ caused a near riot among  spectators. The Latino Lothario and the plump, love-sick girlfriend who  killed lonely, sex-starved women was a story weirder and more intriguing  than anything out of the trashiest pulp magazines of the 1940s.”
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