The Mad Sculptor (52 page)

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Authors: Harold Schechter

Tags: #History, #United States, #State & Local, #Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA), #Psychology, #Psychopathology, #General, #True Crime, #Murder

Bernard, Allen,
124

Bernard, Pierre,
150

51

Bernheimer, William.
See
Burton, Bill

Bethel Bible College,
58

Bishop, Bryan,
212

13

Bispham, L. M.,
70

Blackwell’s Island,
4
,
310

Blaisdell, Russell E.,
x
,
139
,
144
,
205
,
215
,
262

Blood Alley,
4

Bockel, John,
269

Boston Strangler,
313

Brecht, George,
14

15

Briehl, Walter,
114

Bromberg, Walter,
33

Brough, Alexander,
257

Buchalter, Louise “Lepke,”
17

Budd, Grace,
47

Burke, John Masterson,
108

Burke Foundation,
107

9
,
110

Burton, Bill,
304

Bushel, Mignon,
269
,
282

83

Butter, Stephen,
164

66
,
196

Butts, Harry,
20

Byrnes, Frank

autopsy of,
176

77

burial of,
200

201

character of,
x
,
167
,
178

murder of,
160
,
161
,
201
,
244

45
,
247
,
281

Cambinias, Cosmon,
163

Canton, New York,
138

44

Capone, Al,
14
,
99

Cardozo, Benjamin,
277

Carey, Arthur,
36

Carson, Frank,
240

41

catathymic crisis,
127
,
144

45
,
321

Chandler, Raymond,
303

4

Charney, David,
44

Chelsea Realistic Products,
128

29
,
134

Chicago Herald and Examiner
,
240

42
,
248
,
252

Chicago Tribune
,
240

“Christian Fish Defense,”
15

Christy, Howard Chandler,
147

Clairmont, Louis de,
235

Cleary, Edward,
270

The Cobra
(Irwin, R.),
136

37

Cockerell, James,
228

Coll, Vincent “Mad Dog,”
14

15

Colleoni of Verocchio,
132

33
,
153

Collins, Ernest,
7

8

comic books,
114

Condé Nast,
131
,
147

confession

by Fiorenza,
41

43

by Irwin,
240

42
,
243

47
,
253

Congdon, Leroy,
143

44

Cornell, Katharine,
4

Corrigan’s Bar and Grill,
158
,
187

88
,
189
,
191

Cosmopolitan
,
303

Coward, Noël,
4

Cowing, Edward,
262
,
264

Crawford, Florence L.,
69

70

criminals

child,
64

68
,
114

forensic psychiatry for,
116

17
,
126

27

gangster,
14
,
17
,
231

juvenile,
64

68
,
114

necrophiliac,
48

49

pedophile,
48

49

pickpocket,
14

rapist,
31

46
,
47

49
,
169

71

See also
murder

Crimmins, Frank,
179
,
249
,
251
,
257

Cupani, Ignazi,
32

Curry, Frank,
174

Cusack, Thomas,
46

Daily Mirror

Easter Sunday Massacre coverage by,
172
,
184

85
,
210

Stretz trial coverage by,
28

Titterton murder coverage by,
35

36
,
39
,
43

45

Daily Népszava
,
187

Daley, Joseph,
196

Dannemora State Hospital,
295

98

D’Antonio, Pauline,
32
,
43

Darling, Lloyd E.,
78

Darrow, Clarence,
18
,
76
,
115

Day, James H.,
284

Dead End
,
5

6
,
64

death sentence,
46

dementia praecox (schizophrenia),
127
,
150

51
,
280

Demsky, Izzy,
140

41

Detective Tales
,
298

99

Dewey, Thomas,
xi
,
280
,
284
,
290

DeWitt, W. A.,
37

Dickens, Charles,
114

15

Dienhart, John,
xi
,
242
,
247

Dillinger, John,
211

12

Dishaw, Pauline,
204

Dodge, B. G.,
315

Dodge, William C.

on Easter Sunday Massacre case,
189
,
193
,
209
,
255

56
,
264

on Nussenbaum murder case,
226

27

D’Oronzio, George,
269

70

Douglas, Kirk,
141

Doyle, Conan,
162
,
163

Doyle, Ray,
249

Dreiser, Theodore,
44
,
299

Dunne, Dominick,
304

Durant, Will,
105

Easter Sunday Massacre

autopsies,
169

70
,
176

77

Beekman Place and,
159

64
,
171

business and exploitation of,
185

Byrnes’ murder in,
160
,
161
,
201
,
244

45
,
247
,
281

clock in,
181
,
220
,
247
,
251

52
,
255

56
,
280

clues to,
181
,
204
,
220

crime scene of,
159

64
,
237

fingerprints from,
185
,
189

funeral for,
195

97

glove in,
161
,
191
,
204
,
238

Gueret as suspect in,
178

80

ice pick in,
153

54
,
161
,
174
,
179
,
193
,
237
,
239
,
247

insanity plea for,
262

66
,
267

76
,
280
,
281
,
287

90

Koscianski’s contribution to solving,
234

36
,
259

61

Leibowitz defense of,
257

58
,
262

63
,
268

71
,
281

82

neighbors’ statements on,
163

night of,
165

66
,
237
,
243

47
,
280

preliminary reconstruction of,
167

68

as sex crime,
169

71
,
245

soap carvings in,
160
,
204

5
,
245

46
,
326

27

suspects,
164

66
,
173

76
,
177

81
,
185

95
,
203

7

tabloid coverage of,
162
,
169

73
,
176

77
,
182

85
,
206

7
,
210

13
,
215

18

Titterton murder’s similarities to,
171
,
177
,
185
,
213

Touchi in,
159
,
162

63
,
244
,
245

victims’ friends’ statements on,
165

67
,
172

73

victims’ whereabouts before,
165

67

See also
Gedeon, Joseph
;
Gedeon, Mary
;
Gedeon, Veronica
;
Irwin, Robert

Elmira Reformatory,
32
,
46

Elmore, Simon,
48

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
73

Engels, Moya,
223

24
,
225

“Eskimo Pie Defense,”
14

15

Ettl, Alexander,
210

Ettling, George,
128
,
136

evangelism,
54

59
,
60

61
,
69

70
,
138

Evans, Frank, Mrs.,
38

Fallon, George,
37

Farrell, Thomas,
305

Feigin, Samuel,
107

Fénelon, François,
61

Fetton, James,
177

Fiorenza, John

background of,
ix
,
32

33

confession by,
41

43

on crime scene,
33

34

death sentence of,
46

investigation of,
40

41

tabloid interview of,
43

45

Titterton murder trial of,
45

46

“Fiorenza’s Own Amazing Story” (Charney),
43

45

Fish, Albert,
47
,
116

17
,
268
,
320

Fitzgerald, Zelda,
116

Fletcher, John,
55

Flower, Bobby,
x

at funeral,
196

marriage to Veronica Gedeon,
131
,
164
,
166

statement and interview of,
166
,
263

64

Flynn, Francis,
47

48

Fontanne, Lynn,
4

Ford, Michael,
198
,
200

forensic psychiatry,
116

17
,
126

27

Fountain of the Great Lakes
(Taft),
88
,
242

Frank von Coop & Co.,
10

Freschi, John J.,
272
,
276

Freudian theory,
115
,
117
,
119

20

Frolich, Finn,
85

The Front Page
,
252

Gabellini, Mario Enzo,
305

Gambaro, Peter,
33
,
41

gangsters,
14
,
17
,
231

Gantry, Elmer,
54

55
,
315

Garbo, Greta,
4

Garland, Hamlin,
87

Gebhardt, Fritz

background of,
ix
,
12

crime scene of,
8

10

relationship with Vera Stretz,
10

12
,
20

24

Gedeon, Ethel

background and character of,
x
,
112
,
131

32

on crime scene,
159
,
160

at funeral and burial,
195

97

in hiding,
209

marriage to Kudner,
132
,
134
,
135

36

See also
Irwin, Robert

Gedeon, Joseph

alibi of,
158

59
,
175
,
187
,
189
,
191
,
199

arrest and arraignment of,
194

95
,
197

98
,
199

200
,
209
,
258

as bachelor,
131
,
157

58

background of,
x
,
111

12

on crime scene,
159

60
,
171

as father,
130

31

at funeral and burial,
195

97

interrogation of,
189

93
,
197
,
199

murder theory about,
190

relationship with Mary Gedeon
131
,
158
,
191
,
192

93

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