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The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949. Caught for the double homicide of a widow and her young daughter in Michigan, the first couple of crime became the focus of an intense debate over the death penalty and extradition. Their story climaxed in a sensational trial in New York City and concluded two years later inside Sing Sings notorious Death House. Pulp fiction era reporters, who followed every step taken by the accused slayers, christened Beck and Fernandez the Lonely Hearts Killersa nickname that stuck and has since been used to describe an entire category of criminal behavior. Despite the sensationalization of the killer couples exploits, the story of the Michigan crime that ended their spree has until now remained largely untold. Drawing on rare archival material, this book presents, for the first time anywhere, a detailed account of this lost chapter in the saga of the Lonely Hearts Killers. Both biography and analysis, this book also attempts to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions and to provide answers to a few unanswered questions about the case.

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The Lonely Hearts Killers

Also by Tobin T. Buhk

Pardonable Matricide: Robert Irving Latimer, from Michigans Most Dangerous Inmate to Free Man (Exposit, 2019)

The Lonely Hearts Killers
The Bloody Passions of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez
Tobin T. Buhk

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Jefferson, North Carolina

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Buhk, Tobin T., author.

Title: The lonely hearts killers : the bloody passions of Martha Beck and

Raymond Fernandez / Tobin T. Buhk.

Description: Jefferson, North Carolina : Exposit, 2020 |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020018370 | ISBN 9781476679112 (paperback)

ISBN 9781476639642 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Beck, Martha Jule Seabrook, 1951. | Fernandez, Raymond

Martinez, 19141951. | Serial murderersUnited StatesBiography.

Classification: LCC HV6785 .B84 2020 | DDC 364.152/320922dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018370

British Library cataloguing data are available

ISBN (print) 978-1-4766-7911-2

ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4766-3964-2

2020 Tobin T. Buhk. All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

On the cover: insets, left to right Sing Sing mug shots of prisoner #108594 Martha Beck and prisoner #108595 Raymond Fernandez (Sing Sing Prison Files, New York State Archives, Albany, New York); background images 2020 Shutterstock

Printed in the United States of America

Exposit is an imprint of McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640

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Table of Contents

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Whos Who

Martha Jule Beck

a.k.a. Martha Martin

Raymond Martinez Fernandez

a.k.a. Charles Martin and Raymond Martin

Michigan

Deliphene Downing

Lonely hearts widow of Rolland Downing

Rainelle Downing

Deliphenes daughter

Roger O. McMahon

Kent County Prosecutor

Elmer Al Boss

Wyoming Township Police Officer

John VanderBand

Wyoming Township Police Officer

Leigh Slater

Wyoming Township Chief of Police

Hugh Blacklock

Kent County Sheriff

Clarence Randle

Kent County Deputy Sheriff

James Toohey

Kent County Deputy Sheriff

Arnold Pigorsh

Kent County Deputy Sheriff

Paul W. Bloxsom

Kent County Coroner

Lula Parks

Kent County stenographer

Mildred Bellows

Kent County Jail Matron in charge of Beck

Adrian W. Verspoor

Lonely Hearts defense counsel in Michigan

New York

Edward Robinson, Jr.

Nassau County Assistant District Attorney

Philip Huntington

Nassau County Assistant District Attorney

James N. Gehrig

Nassau County District Attorney

Charles Hildebrandt

Nassau County Detective

Thomas J. Begley

Nassau County Detective

Herbert E. Rosenberg

Lonely Hearts defense attorney

Ferdinand Pecora

Judge at the Lonely Hearts trial

Father Thomas Donovan

Catholic priest assigned to Sing Sing Prison

Rev. Luther K. Hannum

Protestant minister assigned to Sing Sing Prison

Wilfred L. Denno

Keeper and later warden of Sing Sing Prison

William E. Snyder

Warden of Sing Sing Prison

Timeline

The following timeline has been constructed from the confessions that Martha Jule Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez made to investigators while in the Kent County Jail, from various statements they made to reporters, and from testimony they gave at the trial. The vagueness of Fernandezs timeline reflects his inability to recall specific dates.

Raymond Martinez Fernandez

December 17, 1914

Raymond Martinez Fernandez born in Hawaii

191732

Lives in Connecticut

1929

Convicted at 15 for stealing chickens from a neighbors farm

1932

Moves to Spain, where he works on an uncles farm

1934

Marries Agnesia Robles Alonaso

1935

Son Carl Fernandez born in Spain

May 1935

Travels to New York, stays six months before returning to Spain

1937

Son Ralph Fernandez born in Spain

193839

Fights with Francos forces; serves eight months of combat duty

1940

Daughter Francisca Fernandez born in Spain

194042

Works for the British government in the dockyards of Gibraltar

1945

Daughter Gloria Fernandez born in Spain

1945

Works as an able seaman aboard the Empire Jewell , an oil tanker en route to Curacao

December 1945

Suffers skull fracture in an accident aboard the Empire Jewell ; spends four weeks in a Curacao hospital

1946

Works aboard American oiler USS Mission Santa Clara (two months); caught stealing $53 in linens in Mobile, Alabama

1946

Convicted of theft of government property; spends five months in a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida

1946

Leaves the federal penitentiary and returns to New York, where he moves in with his sister

January 1947

Meets Jane Wilson Thompson through a lonely hearts advertisement

April 1, 1947

As Charles Raymond Martinez, begins corresponding with Martha Beck

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