Gebhardt, 8–28
Gedeon, Mary, 159–64, 243–45
Gedeon, Veronica, 159–64, 245–46, 280
Kuleba, 48
Lindbergh baby, 17, 27–28, 43
Lonergan, 306–8
“love killings,” 8–28, 243–47
lunacy commission system for, 272–73
Magagna, 48
Nussenbaum, 223–30
Parlato, 47–48
Piatak, 291–92
by Santangelo, 15
soap carving, 326–27
Sporrer, 49
tabloid sensationalism of, 7–8, 183, 311
Titterton, 31–46, 49, 171, 177
Vengalli, 14–15
White, 281
by Williams, 11
See also sex crimes
Murray, Bob, 232–33, 234–35
Murray, Eddie, 189
Nadanyi, Paul, 187
Napoleon Bonaparte, 94
“Nazi Loverboy.” See Gebhardt, Fritz
Nazi regime, 286, 298
necrophiliacs, 48–49
Negroponte, Charles, 185
Nelles, Fred C., 65
Nessolovitz, Nathan, 225
New Thought movement, 73
New York
Canton, 138–44
forensic psychiatric law in, 116–17
lunacy commission system in, 272–73
Times Square murder, 223–30
Wall Street Crash, 103–4
New York Daily News
Easter Sunday Massacre coverage by, 170–72, 182–84, 207, 211–12, 215, 266
Gebhardt murder coverage by, 11, 28
Titterton murder coverage by, 49
New York Evening Journal, 170, 172, 173, 177, 213
New York Journal-American, 124
New York Post
Eastern Sunday Massacre coverage by, 162, 258–59, 265
Titterton murder coverage by, 36, 45
New York Society of Illustrators stag show, 147, 173
New York Sun, 265
New York Times, 39, 48
Newsweek, 169
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18–19
Niles, Albert, 142
Norden, Helen, 131, 146–47
Norris, Charles, 39
Norris, Fannie, 79
Nott, Charles C., Jr., 46
Novarro, Ramon, 89–90
Nussenbaum, Julia
background of, 224
murder of, 223–30
Ross’s relationship with, 226–27
O’Brien, Miles, 18, 19–20, 253
O’Malley, Austin, 242, 248, 249
“Omnipotent Oom,” 150–51
Oregon State Training School for Boys, 75, 77–79, 83
Ossido, Salvatore, 48–49
Ottburg, Charles and Matilda, 150, 153, 204, 237–38
Owens, Martin, 160, 163, 181, 202, 249, 253
Ozman, Agnes, 58, 315
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 71
Parham, Charles Fox, 57–59
Parlato, Margaret, 47–48
Parliapiano, Calogero, 158, 187–88, 189
“Party Girl” exposé, 148
Pasadena Avenue Gang, 64–65
Pattanlyus, John, 178
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 183
Pearson, Edmund, 36
pedophiles, 48–49
Pentecostals, 57–59, 60–61, 62–64, 69–70, 316
Perlstein, Joseph, 227
Peterson, West, xi, 172–73, 233–34, 259
Petro, Andy, 232
Philpot, Mary Swope, 7
Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, 115–16, 144
Piatak, Christina, 291
Pilie, Sydney, 298
Pollens, Bertram, 48
Preston, Frank, 199
psychiatry
catathymia, 127, 144–45, 321
forensic, 116–17, 126–27
Freudian, 115, 117, 119–20
hebephrenia, 127, 280
insanity defense, 262–66, 267–76, 280, 281, 287–90
lunacy commission system, 272–73
schizophrenia, 127, 150–51, 280
“Psychiatry in Court” (Leibowitz), 267–68
“Pyrophobia” (Irwin, B.), 56
Quinn, John J., 226
Randall, Ruth, 240
rape. See sex crimes
Rath, Ernst vom, 286
Reidy, John, 188
Reles, Abe “Kid Twist,” 14
religion
evangelism, 54–59, 60–61, 69–70, 138
glossolalia in, 58–59, 63, 315
metaphysical, 73, 92–95
Methodist, 54, 138
Pentecostal, 57–59, 60–61, 62–64, 69–70, 316
utopian Tantric, 150–51
See also Irwin, Benjamin; Irwin, Mary; Irwin, Robert
Reynolds, William T., 219
Robinson, Charles, 163
Rocco, Anthony, 199
Rockland State Hospital, 124–28, 135–37, 138–39, 151
Romanelli, Carlo, ix, 82, 85
Romanoff, Harry, xi, 241
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 91
Rosenbaum, Zachary, 225, 227
Rosenblum, Jacob J., xi, 280, 281, 283, 286, 288
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Heindel), 296
Ross (Rosenbaum), Mischa
arraignment of, 227–28
background of, 225–26
Nussenbaum murder and, 223–30
Nussenbaum’s relationship with, 226–27
sentencing of, 229, 230
Rowland, Thomas and Elmer, 104
Rowley, Walter, 224
Runyon, Damon, 281–82, 286
Ryan, Alice, 92–96, 99, 106, 133
Ryan, Charles, 273
Sabbatino, Peter, xi, 197–98, 199–200, 258
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 84
St. Lawrence University Theological School, 138–44
Santangelo, Viscenzo, 15
schizophrenia, 127, 150–51, 280
Schlenner, Frank, 165, 167
Schmeling, Max, 89, 91
Schmidt, Hans, 277
Schnee, Edith, 228
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 105
Scottsboro Boys, 268
Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham), 114
sensationalism, 7–8, 183, 299–300, 311
sex crimes
catathymia and, 321
Easter Sunday Massacre as, 169–71, 245
Lonergan murder, 306–8
necrophiliac pedophilia, 48–49
tabloid assumptions of, 170–71
Titterton murder, 31–46, 49
wave of, 47–49
The Sex Criminal (Pollens), 48
Sheldon, Leonora, 148, 149, 152–53
Sheldon, William G., 148–49, 323
Sherlock Holmes (Doyle), 162, 163
Sherman, Mortimer, 211
Shuttleworth, John, 199
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 14
Silvestri Art Manufacturing, 99
Simon, Carleton, 37–38, 190, 313
Singer, Caroline, 38
Sing Sing prison, 118, 278, 294–95, 331
“Skyscraper Slayer.” See Stretz, Vera
Smith, Charles, 66
Smith, Charles “Chuck,” 108–9, 111
Smith, Edward, 226
Smith, Gerald L. K., 180
Smith, LeRoy, 7
Smithmead, Oneda, 31
The Snake Pit (Ward), 125
soap carvings, 160, 204–5, 245–46, 326–27
The Solitude of the Soul (Taft), 87
Sporrer, Einer, 49
Stage (magazine), 153
Stahl, G. I., 79
The Statler Hotel, 231
Stern, Julius David, 45
Stern, Sidney F., 285
Stevenson, George H., 224
The Story of Philosophy (Durant), 105
Straughn, Wiley, 31–32
Streit, Saul S., 229–30
Stretz, Frank, 12
Stretz,
Vera, ix
acquittal of, 25–27, 312
on crime scene, 8–10
defense and testimony of, 17–19, 20–25
Gebhardt murder trial of, 17–28
Gebhardt’s relationship with, 10–12, 20–24
prosecution of, 19–20
Strickland Home for Boys, 67, 69
Strong, George Templeton, 4
Stuart, John, 210
Stuberg, Katherine, 85
Sullivan, John L., 249–50, 251
Swan, Sally, 90
Swander, George, 41
tabloids
Easter Sunday Massacre coverage by, 162, 169–73, 176–77, 182–85, 206–7, 210–13, 215–18
Irwin, Robert, profiled by, 210–13, 215–18
sensationalism of, 7–8, 183, 311
sex crime assumptions of, 170–71
Stretz trial coverage by, 28
Titterton murder coverage by, 35–36, 39, 43–45
Taft, Lorado
as mentor to Irwin, Robert, 88–89, 91, 98, 318
work and background of, ix, 85–88, 242
Taft, Mary, 89, 90–91, 96
Taite, Leslie, 8–9
Tepper, Saul, 172
Thaw, Harry K., 281, 284
Time magazine, 171
Times Square murder, 223–30
Titterton, Lewis, ix, 31–46
background of, 29–30
on murder crime scene, 34–35
as murder suspect, 37
Titterton, Nancy
background of, ix, 29–31
Easter Sunday Massacre compared to, 171, 177, 185, 213
murder crime scene, 31–32, 33–34
murder investigation, 34–35, 36, 37–41
See also Fiorenza, John
Toman, John, 249
Topper, Louis, 200
Touchi (dog)
crime scene behavior of, 159, 162–63
murder role of, 244, 245
trials
“Christian Fish Defense,” 15
cognitive science on winning, 312
Easter Sunday Massacre, 281–90
“Eskimo Pie Defense,” 14–15
Gebhardt murder, 17–28
Scopes Monkey, 18
Titterton murder, 45–46
Triumphs of Faith, 59
True Detective, 199
Tucker, John C., 214–15
Tyng, Sewell T., 293
United Press Products, 98–99
Universal Mind, 92–95, 106, 119, 278
Universal Service, 242
Valentine, Lewis
background of, xi, 164–65
on Easter Sunday Massacre case, 198, 206, 209, 213, 218, 249, 251–255
on Titterton murder case, 41
van Gogh, Vincent, 141
Vanity Fair, 131, 146–47
Vengalli, Michael, 14–15
visualization (of Irwin, R.)
devices for, 79
explanations and rants, 84–85, 92–95, 142–43
first belief in, 73–75
godhood and, 154
partners, 74, 94–95
sex drive and, 105–6
Universal Mind and, 92–95, 106, 119, 278
Wall Street Crash, 103–4
Wallace, James G., 285, 288–90, 292, 293
Wanderer, Carl, 241
Ward, Mary Jane, 125
Warren, Robert Penn, 300
Washington, George and Martha, 3
Watson, Archibald, 273
Wattles, Wallace D., 73
Wechsler, Israel, 273
Wertham, Fredric
background of, x, 114–17
catathymia theory of, 127, 144–45, 321
communication with Robert Irwin, 117–23, 126–27, 128, 133, 295–97
Lavin assessment by, 330
lunacy commission for Robert Irwin, 274–75
at surrender of Robert Irwin, 253–56
Wertzheimer, Friedrich Ignanz, 114–15
Wesley, John, 54, 138
Whalen, John J., 219–20
White, Stanford, 281
Whitney, Richard, 294
Whittier State School, 65–66, 69, 70–71
Williams, Bunny, 11
Winchell, Walter, 10, 18, 173, 239
Wing, Gale, 64
Winifred Masterson Burke Relief Foundation, 107–9, 110
World’s Fair, 86, 304
WOV radio station building, 223
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