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Wylie was the daughter of advertising executive and novelist Max Wylie and niece of novelist Philip Wylie, while Hoffert was the daughter of a Minneapolis surgeon, so they both belonged to prominent families, leading the case to create a press sensation.
Dec 8, 2016 · Max Wylie, a novelist and Janice Wylie's father, wrote a book called Career Girl, Watch Your Step! after his daughter was killed with Emily Hoffert in 1963. The book offered advice to young women on how to stay safe in the city, but also reflected the moral panic and racial bias of the time.
Sep 23, 1975 · FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Sept. 22 (AP) — Max Wylie novelist, playwright and former radio advertising executive, shot himself to death in a motel room last night, the police said today. He was 71 ...
Sep 19, 2016 · Wylie, an aspiring actress and the daughter of Max Wylie, a renowned radio advertising executive, novelist and playwright who created the television show “The Flying Nun,” ran right into Robles...
Sep 23, 1975 · Max Wylie and a third roommate of the two women discovered the bodies. The brutal murders of the two young women in the affluent neighborhood was a sensation that was to grow in the next few...
Aug 18, 2013 · On sunny, flawless Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963 — 50 years ago this month — blond and vivacious Janice Wylie, 21, and her roommate, scholarly Emily Hoffert, 23, were viciously murdered in their...
The murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were just two of several high-profile New York City murders that reshaped how wealthy and middle-class white people thought of urban life in the 1960s.
