She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers
She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers
In postwar America, lonely hearts clubs sold lists of widows to anyone with a stamp, and Raymond Fernandez read those lists as a catalog of victims. With Martha Beck posing as his devoted sister, he courted women by mail, drained their savings, and vanished. Then, in January 1949, the con stopped being a con. Why did a typed letter signed "Janet L. Fay" instantly tell her family she was dead? And how did a woman who joined the scheme as a jealous facade end up holding the hammer?
In this episode, we take apart the romance fraud machine…
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