Evil by Colin Wilson

Author:Colin Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Trial

Beck, second from left, and Fernandez, right, exchange smiles past the department of correction officer assigned to escort Fernandez as they wait in the court building of the Bronx Supreme Court in New York. During the trial the pair reached out to each other whenever possible.

Because there was no death penalty in Michigan, the police decided to transfer the trial to New York. The killers naturally objected, but after a legal battle, the trial opened in New York on June 28, 1949. Fernandez and Beck were charged with the murder of Janet Fay. The details that emerged of Fernadez and Beck’s sexual relationship were so indecent that they were never published. On August 22, 1949, the pair was sentenced to death.

In Sing Sing prison they still caused some commotion; they continued to declare their love for one another and to wave when they had a chance to catch a casual glimpse of one another across the exercise yard. Fernandez’s boastfulness about his sex life with Beck led other prisoners to start a story that she was having an affair with someone in the women’s wing, and Fernandez almost went insane with jealousy. Yet they were still declaring their undying love for one another when they were executed on March 7, 1951.

No full account of their murders has been published, since only the three murders to which they confessed were investigated. As many as 14 more were being considered.

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