Mr. & Mrs. Bluebeard
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Episode 368 tells the tragicomic tale of a romantic and business partnership that goes awry when a woman’s jealousy overpowers her professional detachment. It’s also a love story of a passion so profound that they take their love all the way to the electric chair.
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| 0:00.0 | Paul Pueller.com |
| 0:07.0 | March 2, 1949. |
| 0:12.0 | A balding mail order Romeo, who contacted moneyed women through lonely hearts letters, and his fat, unkempt |
| 0:22.5 | paramour, confessed today that they had killed two women and a three-year-old girl in the past two |
| 0:29.0 | months. Mrs. Martha Beck, twice divorced, met Raymond Fernandez through a correspondence club |
| 0:37.3 | when she was living in Pensacola. |
| 0:40.0 | Fernandez was then living in New York. |
| 0:43.2 | Late in 1947, she came to New York to meet the swarthy Hawaiian-born man |
| 0:49.4 | and worked out with them the details of a plan to meet other women through their club and take them for their money. |
| 0:57.0 | Together they went to Laurel Town, Pennsylvania, where Fernandez met and married a 40-year-old widow. |
| 1:04.0 | After three weeks, the widow left him, so they turned to Chicago. |
| 1:09.0 | There, under another name, he married another woman and got |
| 1:13.7 | $4,000 from her. Eventually, after similar experiences in Vermont and Massachusetts, Fernandez |
| 1:21.2 | and Mrs. Beck met the woman identified as Janet Faye in Albany. McMan quoted Mrs. Beck as saying, |
| 1:29.6 | we got $3,000 from her. On January 4th, because she was jealous, the husky Mrs. Beck |
| 1:37.3 | slugged Mrs. Faye over the head with a pipe. Fernandez then strangled her, and they stuffed |
| 1:43.9 | her body in a steamer trunk. Fernandez then strangled her and they stuffed her body in a steamer trunk. |
| 1:46.4 | Fernandez told the prosecutor the slaying took place in his apartment at Valley Stream on Long |
| 1:52.0 | Island. They took the body to a house they rented near the Idaho Wild Airport on Long Island |
| 1:57.2 | and buried it. The pair came to Grand Rapids January 23rd to meet the widowed Mrs. Downing. |
| 2:04.6 | Her husband was killed in 1947 when a truck he was driving was struck by a train. |
| 2:11.6 | After living for several weeks in Mrs. Downing's house, Fernandez induced her to sell the property and moved to California. |
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