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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Nov 13, 2009 · The Lonely Hearts Killers, aka Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The couple had schemed to...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jan 26, 2023 · Though the exploits of the Lonely Hearts Killers left a trail of blood and tragedy behind them, their murderous journey does make for an interesting bit of true crime history.

  7. Feb 16, 2024 · The Lonely Hearts serial killers preyed on lonely women, stole their money, and killed them. These were their chilling final words before they were executed.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...

  10. Mar 12, 2020 · The pair, whom the press labeled the “Lonely Hearts Killers,” then traveled to Michigan where they worked the same scam on a widow there. But the woman became suspicious, and she and her young daughter were murdered to keep her from exposing Beck and Fernandez.

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