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Murder Dictionary

New York: Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

This episode we discuss how Martha Beck fell in love with a con artist named Raymond Fernandez who she met through a lonely hearts column ad. Once she learned the truth she decided to help him, so they went on a spree of defrauding and killing women that earned them the moniker “Lonely Hearts Killers”.  


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Martha Beck & RAYMOND FERNANDEZ LINKS:
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha.htm
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-lonely-hearts-killers-are-executed
https://www.amazon.com/Tortured-Love-Romance-Lonely-Killers/dp/B088N95JLD


WELLNESS RESOURCE LINKS:
https://www.childhelp.org/hotline/
https://victimsofcrime.org/help-for-crime-victims/get-help-bulletins-for-crime-victims/bulletins-for-teens/bullying-and-harassment
http://stompoutbullying.org/
http://www.thehotline.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwwcjGBRDj-P7TwcinyBkSJADymblT8HNh4scSA-G7d-xEADhi0xODIRWy3zXSWWrGXg2B5hoCdD7w_wcB
http://www.ncadv.org/
http://www.crisistextline.org/textline/?gclid=CjwKEAjw9MrIBRCr2LPek5-h8U0SJAD3jfhtHplx6Ibc8Ov7oG79YLibo1TubSfQrumNc-WnXJixDxoCKafw_wcB
https://www.mentalhelp.net/meeting-finder/ca/woodland-hills/

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Murder Dictionary Podcast.

0:41.7

My name is Brianna, and that is Courtney.

0:45.4

Hello.

0:47.3

Before we get into the case that we're going to talk about tonight, our last New York case,

0:53.7

we want to tell you what's in our show notes

0:56.9

and description every week. You will find links to resources that we use to research. So if you

1:03.3

want to read a little bit more about the case, you can always do that by clicking on those links.

1:08.8

You can also find links to resources like help for domestic violence,

1:15.3

12-step programs, anti-bullying, suicide hotlines, all sorts of stuff like that is always in our

1:21.3

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1:46.8

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2:10.6

slash murder dictionary podcast. And I think I ran out of breath, but that's pretty much it, I think.

2:18.9

I got, I checked all the boxes, right, Cort?

2:21.4

I think so.

2:22.5

Okay.

2:22.7

All I can think of is we can't really go to the beach, but we do have beach towels on

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