The Mad Sculptor
““GIGOLO CONFESSES TO TORSO MURDER,” and “LOVER SLASHES SWEETHEART WHO SPURNED HIM,” the slaying of the two Gedeon women and their boarder might have been expected to provide the public with some fleeting diversion at best. A rare combination of ingredients, however—a kind of perfect storm of prurience—raised the triple murder above the usual crime-and-scandal-sheet fare, turning it into what Newsweek magazine proclaimed “the best story in Manhattan tabloid history, everything that sensational j...ournalism could ask for.”1There was, to begin with, the person of Ronnie Gedeon, the ideal tabloid victim: a stunning twenty-year-old model, strangled, stripped naked, and (so early reports insisted) sexually assaulted on the bed beneath which her murdered mother’s body lay. The corpses of the two women, along with that of Frank Byrnes, had been transported to the morgue at Bellevue, where autopsies were scheduled for late Monday morning. As Dr. Gonzales made clear, there was no way of telling whether the women had been raped until the postmortem examinations were completed and vaginal swabs analyzed.MoreLess
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