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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation

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by Schechter, Harold


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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
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  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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