The Lonely Killers - Wikidata. The Lonely Heart Killers. Mistreated Boy. Raymond. Fernandez was born in Hawaii of Spanish immigrant parents in 1. There his. father ran into job discrimination because of his broken English. THE LONELY HEART KILLERS MARTHA BECK RAYMOND FERNANDEZ She was born with a glandular problem that caused her to be very obese. Born Martha Seabrook in Milton, Florida on May 6,1920. Martha was accepted by a school. He worked intermittently at a series of low. He saw another disappointment in his son who was often. Young Ray lacked the . Frustrated, financially struggling. He was a mean drunk who used excessive corporal punishment. Ray. The punishments escalated into beatings. Like many. mistreated children, Ray developed a deep ambivalence toward his. He feared his father's wrath yet admired the way he ruled. If only. Ray could be strong enough, masculine enough to make his father. But alas, the boy was stuck in a small- framed, non- muscular. As an adolescent, he tried. Jailed. at 1. 5, the teenager decided to reverse the general movement of. America for Spain, the land of his. Upon his release, he. Relatives in the old country were willing to. Ray in and he settled down and grew to adulthood in Spain. He. wanted to re- establish a relationship with his son so he wrote. Ray and told him of his desires. His mother and father joined. Spain. They found. He had a calm. genial manner that easily won him friends, especially women. The. thin lanky physique that his father had often frowned upon brought. When Fernandez. was about twenty years old, he married Encarnaci. The financially troubled couple. Fernandez solved his marital problems as. Alarmed, Fernandez. Spain. There. he found a country ripped apart by Civil War. He enlisted in Franco's. After Franco's victory, Fernandez drifted from job to job. He was a gardener and a garbage collector and did. When World. War II started, Fernandez saw an opportunity. In 1. 93. 9, he traveled. Gibraltar and set up as an ice- cream vendor, selling this goodie. British military personnel and tourists. One day. a British man asked to speak privately with the ice- cream seller. He explained that he was from. British Intelligence and said, . Precisely what he did remains obscure but Fernandez. He signed on with a ship, for a life of. Instead, he had an accident that would. A hatch cover slammed across his head. The accident sheared off much of the thick. After this misfortune, Fernandez suffered severe headaches. Acquaintances believed his general demeanor. Where he had previously been calm and controlled. Perhaps the worst damage done was to his ego. Insecure. as a child, he found comfort in knowing that women found him attractive. The Lonely Killers (Q7748127) From Wikidata. Jump to: navigation, search. No description defined. Language Label Description Also known as; English: The Lonely Killers. No description defined. While serving time for petty theft in the 40's, Raymond Fernandez learned about voodoo and the occult from a cellmate. Upon his release, Fernandez believed he could use voodoo to gain a mastery over. After a year. behind bars, Fernandez went to Brooklyn to look up his sister. Unable to find employment, he was generally in a. During. this period, Fernandez practiced voodoo. His sister was disconcerted. According. to Sander, Fernandez told his sister . But Fernandez was to show that. He wrote. to several members of various lonely- hearts clubs. In 1. 94. 7, he. began writing to Jane Thompson. Thompson's. marriage had recently collapsed. Bespectacled and plain- faced. The letters from Fernandez. She was excited. by his romantic approach: he asked for a lock of her hair! She. was delighted to send it to him. She did not know that the hair. Fernandez believed would put a woman. Soon they arranged a meeting. Wearing. a toupee of thick, black hair, Fernandez was gratified to find. Thompson falling under his . Fernandez had a gut- level understanding of female. He. gazed at each woman as if he were utterly enthralled by her and. He knew not to give the impression he was out. The Lonely Hearts Killer (2 of 4) - Duration: 14:53. OTVIVIVI 22,659 views. 14:53 The Lonely Hearts Killer (3 of 4) - Duration: 15:06. Lonely Hearts Killers - Duration: 15:31. Jeri Scarborough 6,214 views.
The couple. traveled to Spain on her nickel pretending to be married. Strangely. Fernandez took Thompson to meet his real wife - after he convinced. Mrs. Fernandez to be introduced as an old friend named ? Perhaps he told his wife he needed to. Thompson so he could support her and their young. If he pulled this off, he would settle down with the woman. Encarnaci. The odd. Thompson ever suspecting his old friend was really his wife and. However, one day Fernandez and Thompson. Thompson was found. Police suspected. US, he scammed Jane Thompson's mother. After several hours, he. Thompson's signature affixed. Ray Fernandez. He sought out her mother, Mrs. Wilson. and waved the document in her face. His appearance of sincerity. The document. scared Mrs. It said that the home she shared with her. He assured her he was not going to make. The two of them could share the home. Her. daughter must have been lucky to be loved by such a kind, generous. Fernandez continued writing to lonely- hearts club. His victims were not wealthy so his takes were. The women he conned were single when unmarried. They yearned for passion, which Fernandez seemed to. When they realized. To compound. her problems, her brother sexually assaulted her when she was. Martha. she was accepted by a school of nursing. She graduated first in. Martha Seabrook was going to succeed. However. she had difficulty getting employment despite her qualifications. Finally, an undertaker hired. The job was a bitter disappointment. Seabrook. had honed her skills in nursing school and knew that she could. Yet, she could only get a job working. The lonely. woman escaped the disappointment and failure of her life by reading. She also frequented theaters to watch. The Garden of Allah and Gaslight that. Charles Boyer. After. Seabrook heard there. California and decided to take her chances. She had an affair with a bus driver. Soon. the twenty- something nurse found herself pregnant and demanded. He put her off, and then attempted suicide. Pacific Ocean. Rescuers pulled him. Seabrook's life. Seabrook. She was. hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. She appeared. to recover after a few days. Then she behaved sensibly, moving. Pensacola, Florida so she could put on a ring and pretend to. Around the time of her. The new. mother and ersatz war widow found herself a genuine beau by the. Alfred Beck. Oddly, like the father of her child, he was. The two soon married but Beck divorced Martha within. Although. her personal life was again bleak, Martha's career took a turn. The Pensacola Crippled Children's Home hired her. She was making. something of herself as a nurse. Perhaps. her on- the- job success encouraged Beck to take another chance. She joined Mother Dinene's Family Club for Lonely Hearts. Ray Fernandez. She took a liking to. Unbridled. corresponding regularly for a while, they agreed to meet in Florida. She thought. he resembled her idol, Charles Boyer. Surprisingly. Fernandez, accustomed to deceiving women only to bilk them out. Most articles about the case say. Fernandez was attracted to Beck . At any rate, the couple spent many steamy hours. Fernandez. soon realized Beck had no money and no property. After two days. of sensual bliss, he wanted to return to women who would gratify. He made an excuse to Beck and headed. New York. From the Big Apple, he wrote his lover a . The epistle devastated Beck but it was. Word about. Beck's hotel trysts got back to the board of the Pensacola Crippled. Children's Home. The era was one in which . Unemployed and bereft. Ray. Fernandez would be her salvation whether he liked it or not. The unemployed. single mother packed her bags, took her kids, and headed for Fernandez's. Fernandez's reaction to these uninvited and unannounced. What could those reasons have been? They were suckers but not this woman. She wanted to impose. The demanding, take- no- nonsense Beck. Her portly size may have inflamed. Fernandez. soon concluded the apartment they shared with Jane Thompson's. He told her, if she were going to stay. Beck did not want to be a. Even more, she did not want to lose. Fernandez for with him she was living the love she had read about. He was her Charles Boyer, just as handsome. The kids were packed off to Beck's relatives. Florida. Not long thereafter, Mrs. Beck. may have given her the creeps and, if so, Wilson can be credited. To Fernandez's. surprise, Beck was not upset when he told her he had been a swindling. Instead, she wanted to join. Sanders' analysis was probably right on target. She would be deceiving women into thinking they had this. Their. first mutual mark was a Pennsylvania schoolteacher named Esther. Henne. The woman was convinced that she. The skinny. suitor visited his amour with his full- figured sister in tow. Fernandez. proposed marriage and the teacher accepted. She found herself. Each night, her groom retired. When the wife objected to this bizarre. Beck became intimidating which was not hard given. The three returned to New York. The wife discovered that. Fernandez and Beck. Instead, she just left. Sanders. wrote, . Middle- aged widow Myrtle Young of Greene Forrest. Arkansas hoped life was not passing her by when she started exchanging. Fernandez, she had a new lease. His marriage proposal was eagerly accepted. In August. she traveled to Cook County, Illinois where she and her thick- haired. Latin Romeo wed. Young. Beck forced the woman to take a heavy dosage. Then she and Fernandez put the semi- conscious. Little Rock, Arkansas. When the bus. pulled into the depot, those around her realized Young was not. She was unable to share with police. Did Beck. and Fernandez intend to kill Young? That cannot be answered although. They would commit quite deliberate murders soon after this. Jane Thompson, it is possible. Fernandez murdered before he met Beck. There are no reports of. Beck's being violent before her association with Fernandez. By. herself, she was pitiful; with him, she was murderous. Beck falls. into the pattern of a previously non- criminal woman whose sociopathic. Bonnie Parker may be the prime example of this. Caril Fugate, who followed boyfriend. Charlie Starkweather into spree killing and Myra Hindley, who. Ian Brady's behest, are other examples. In no. case should it be assumed the women were previously . Women with strong moral codes would give. Rather, these women. Why did. Beck and Fernandez prey on women? Beck had a grudge against other. Females often feel they in competition for males and Beck. It is probable he was contemptuous of his weak. His mother put up with alcoholism. His victims. wanted marriage so badly they believed his lies. Fernandez. expanded it to cover those whose lives he took.
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