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Index
Adams, William A., 269
Allen, Charles W., 263
Allen, William H., 262
The American Journal of Psychiatry, 275
American Museum of Natural History, 148–49, 152
An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 44, 299
Anastasia, Albert, 14
Anderle, Bernadette, 251, 263
Andrews, Henry, 284
Apostolic Faith Mission, 70
Arkansas, 251–52, 263
At Heaven’s Gate (Warren), 300
Atwood, John Murray, 139, 144
Aumüller, Anna, 277
Bachrach, Julius, 262
Baker, Amos T., 294–95
Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy, 38
Bankhead, Tallulah, 18
Barrymore, Ethel, 4
Bart, Belle, 36
Bates, Ellis, 215
“Bathtub Murder.” See Titterton, Nancy
Bathurst, Jess, 60
Beacco, Lucy, 158, 181
Beekman, James and Mrs., 3
Beekman, Wilhelmus, 3
Beekman Hill Maniac. See Irwin, Robert
Beekman Place
Gebhardt murder at, 8–28
Gedeon family in, 142, 146, 158–59
history of, 3–6
Lonergan murder at, 306–8
Pilie suicide at, 298
Titterton murder at, 31–46, 49, 171, 177
See also Easter Sunday Massacre
Bellevue Hospital
forensic psychiatry by, 116–17
Irwin in, 113–14, 117–23
Kopalchak in, 291–92
Berg, Louis, 262–63
Berger, Thomas, 300–301, 332, 334–45, 338
Berlin, Irving, 4
Bern, Henry, 327
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
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