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A lonely hearts killer (also called want-ad killer) is a criminal who commits murder by contacting a victim who has either posted advertisements to or answered advertisements via newspaper classified ads and personal or lonely hearts ads.
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After their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949, Fernandez and Beck became known as the Lonely Hearts Killers for meeting their unsuspecting victims through personal ads, posted in newspaper lonely hearts columns. A number of films and television shows are based on this case.
Jul 17, 2022 · On March 8, 1951, Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck, better known as the Lonely Hearts Killers, were executed at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. They had been on death row after being convicted of one murder, though they are believed to have killed as many as 20 people — all of whom were lured through responses to singles ads ...
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Nannie Doss (born Nancy Hazel, November 4, 1905 – June 2, 1965) was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between some time in the 1920s and 1954. Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard.
Former nurse Martha Beck and ladies man Raymond Fernandez develop a deadly predatory relationship. Fernandez entices gullible women through lonely hearts clubs, then steals their jewelry and money, and kills them afterwards.
Dec 6, 2023 · Those were the words of Martha Beck, one half of the duo who became known as the Lonely Hearts Killers after their conviction for the murder of 66-year-old Janet Fay in New York in 1949. Beck, a lonely and “overweight” nurse with two children, met her other half, Raymond Fernandez, in the same way that the duo would eventually select their ...
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Jun 24, 2016 · In the late 1940s, women answered personal ads thinking they would meet the man of their dreams. Instead, they met Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, a couple of cold-blooded killers intent on taking.
