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Schechter, Harold.
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Irwin, Robert, 1907-1975
Serial murders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Serial murderers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Sculptors -- United States -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Schechter, Harold.
Irwin, Robert, 1907-1975
Serial murders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Serial murderers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Sculptors -- United States -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Biography.
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The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation / Harold Schechter.
by
Schechter, Harold.
New Harvest, 2014.
Call #:
364.15232 I72s
Subjects
Irwin, Robert, 1907-1975
Serial
murders
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Case
studies
.
Serial
murderers
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
.
Sculptors
--
United States
--
Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients
--
United States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780544114319 (hc.)
0544114310 (hc.)
Description:
xiv, 352 p., [8] unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography:
Include Bibliogographical references.
Contents:
Part I: Beekman Place
--
Dead End
--
Vera and Fritz
--
"Beauty Slain in Bathtub"
--
Sex Fiends. Part II: Fenelon
--
The Firebrand
--
The Brothers
--
Epiphany
--
Romanelli and Rady
--
Part III: The Shadow of Madness
--
Depression
--
The Gedeons
--
Wertham
--
Bug in a Bottle
--
The Snake Woman
--
Canton
--
Crisis
--
Part IV: The Mad Sculptor
--
Bloody Sunday
--
The Party Girl
--
Murder Sells
--
Prime Suspect
--
Manhunt
--
Part V: The Defender
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Murder in Times Square
--
Henrietta
--
The Front Page
--
Confession
--
Celebrities
--
Lunacy
--
Plea
--
Aftermath
--
Epilogue: The Lonergan
Case
.
Summary:
"On Easter Sunday in 1937, a grisly triple homicide in Manhattan shocked the nation. The young man who committed the
murders
would become known as the Mad Sculptor. The perpetrator, the son of evangelist parents, Robert George Irwin, was a brilliant young sculptor with a deeply disturbed psyche; Irwin was obsessed with sexual self-mutilation and was frequently overcome by outbursts of violent rage. Irwin's primary victim, Veronica Gedeon, was a figure from the world of pulp fantasy
--
a stunning photographer's model whose scandalous seminude pinups would titillate the public for weeks after her death. Irwin's defense attorney, Samuel Leibowitz, was a courtroom celebrity with an unmatched record of acquittals and clients ranging from Al Capone to the Scottsboro Boys. And Dr. Fredric Wertham, psychiatrist and forensic scientist, befriended Irwin years before the
murders
and had predicted them in a public lecture months before the crime. The chilling story of the Easter Sunday
murders
--
a
case
that sparked a nationwide manhunt and endures as one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century. Harold Schechter’s prose evokes the faded glory of post-depression
New
York
and the singular madness of a brilliant mind turned against itself"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
Biographies.
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