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Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Killer Couples Pt. 4: Ray Fernandez and Martha Beck

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.730.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Once a promising intelligence officer, Ray Fernandez transformed into a career conman, swindling lonely women out of their savings. When he met Martha Beck in 1947, his Lonely Hearts con became a deadly scheme of spiralling jealousies and stolen fortunes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Due to the graphic nature of these killer's crimes,

0:03.0

listener discretion is advised.

0:05.0

This episode includes discussions of murder,

0:07.6

incest, and child abuse that some people may find offensive.

0:11.3

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

0:22.1

January or New York is a tough month.

0:24.8

It's typically the coldest of the year,

0:27.0

with none of the December holiday excitement

0:29.2

to distract from the bitter wind and merciless snow.

0:32.9

But a few days after New Year's, 1949,

0:35.8

Janet Faye had never felt happier.

0:39.0

A widow at 66, Janet never really expected to find love again.

0:44.1

Still, she'd put a lonely heart add in the newspaper

0:46.9

because a friend had refused to drop the subject.

0:50.2

She hadn't really planned to go on any dates,

0:53.0

and she certainly never expected to meet a man

0:56.0

like Charles Martin.

0:58.5

Janet looked across from the passenger seat at Charles,

1:01.6

who was driving themselves to their new home in Long Island.

1:04.9

He grinned back at her, a smile that lit up his whole handsome face.

1:09.5

And Janet felt a delightful, fluttering, her stomach.

1:13.4

The last few days had been a whirlwind.

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