March 12, 2024

Season 5, Episode 15: The Beekman Hill Easter Murders

Season 5, Episode 15: The Beekman Hill Easter Murders

On Easter Sunday, 1937, Robert Irwin, a talented and very disturbed young sculptor, who had been in and out of mental hospitals for years, committed a horrific triple murder in the fashionable Manhattan neighborhood of Beekman Hill. The victims were Veronica Gedeon, a beautiful true crime magazine model, her mother Mary, both strangled to death, and a male boarder, Frank Byrnes, stabbed eleven times with an icepick while he slept. 
These murders led to one of the largest manhunts since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. 



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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_George_Irwin 

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/528905?journalCode=wp 

https://blog.mam.org/2012/08/10/the-heady-appeal-of-soap-sculpture-competitions/ 

https://uselessinformation.org/robert-irwin-ivory-soap-murders/ 




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