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Richard "Ricky" Robles. The " Career Girls Murders " was the name given by the media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie in their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on August 28, 1963. [1] George Whitmore Jr. was charged with this and other crimes, but he was later cleared.
In her article “The Career Girls Murders: Gender, Race and Crime in 1960s New York” in the journal Women’s Studies Quarterly, Marilynn C. Johnson writes that the Wylie-Hoffert case ...
The “Career Girl murders” was a media obsession that summer, as was the legal drama that followed. A wrong man was arrested, confessed and got shipped off to prison before Robles finally met ...
But a recent NPR story reminded me that it also marks the 50 th anniversary of New York’s infamous “Career Girls Murders,” an all-but-forgotten crime that made clear why the March on ...
George Whitmore Jr. (May 26, 1944 – October 8, 2012) was an African American man who was charged but later cleared of the infamous Career Girls Murders that occurred in New York City in 1963. [1] ". The Supreme Court cited Mr. Whitmore’s case as 'the most conspicuous example' of police coercion when it issued its 1966 ruling in Miranda v.
A Classic Whodunit. There are few stories in the annals of true crime like that of the career girl murder case of 1963. On one level, it was a classical whodunit tale that had Manhattan detectives stumped for many months while public pressure to solve the killings built to a boiling point. The savage sex-murders of two girls on Manhattan's ...
The Crooked Places. Dr. Martin Luther. King Jr. (AP) "The rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight..." he said. His deep, vibrant voice, rich with passion, echoed over the vast crowd assembled on the Lincoln Memorial lawn on August 28, 1963. A relentless sun beat down on the hundreds of thousands of people ...
