Michigan’s Lonely Hearts Killers: A History of "Cupid Club" Crimes and Criminals with Tobin Buhk Online
February 1949:
RCA introduced the first 45 RPM record.
President Truman began his second term.
The first TV soap opera debuted.
And the couple now infamous as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" arrived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they committed a crime that would bring an end to their two-year cross-country serial murder spree.
Learn from author Tobin Buhk about the Michigan crimes of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez as well as other "Cupid Club" killers who, throughout the years, preyed on Michigan lonely hearts through personal advertisements
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