Harvey Glatman

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Harvey Glatman
San Quentin State Prison

Harvey Murray Glatman (December 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer active during the late 1950s. He was known in the media as the Lonely Hearts Killer and the Glamour Girl Slayer. He would use several pseudonyms, posing as a professional photographer to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career.

Early life

Harvey Glatman was born on December 10, 1927, in

pulling it tight against his neck. Glatman's mother took him to the family physician, who said he "would grow out of it."[1]

As a teenager, Glatman began breaking into women's apartments and stealing random items, including lingerie and, in one incident, a handgun. Over time, he escalated to

psychopathic personality - schizophrenic type having sexually perverted impulses as the basis of his criminality".[1] He was paroled
in 1948.

Murders

Glatman moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1957 and started trolling modeling agencies looking for potential victims. He would contact them with offers of work for pulp magazines, take them back to his apartment, tie them up and sexually assault them, taking pictures all the while. He would then strangle them and dump the bodies in the desert. Glatman's two known model victims were Judith Dull and Ruth Mercado.[2] He met his third victim, Shirley Ann Bridgeford, through a Lonely Hearts ad in the newspaper.

Glatman is also a suspect in the slaying of "Boulder Jane Doe," a victim whose corpse was discovered by hikers near Boulder, Colorado, in 1954.[3] Her identity remained a mystery for 55 years. In October 2009, local authorities were notified by Dr. Terry Melton of Mitotyping Technologies in State College, Pennsylvania, that her lab had made a match between the Jane Doe's DNA profile and that of a woman who thought the unidentified murder victim might be her long-lost sister.[4] The positive identification of "Boulder Jane Doe" was an 18-year-old woman from Phoenix, Arizona, named Dorothy Gay Howard.[5]

Arrest and execution

Glatman was arrested in 1958, caught in the act of kidnapping what would have been his fourth known murder victim, Lorraine Vigil (1936-2002).[6] A patrolman saw him struggling with a woman at the side of the road and arrested him.[7] He confessed to three murders and eventually led the police to a toolbox containing pictures he had taken of his victims.[8]

Glatman was found guilty of two counts of

San Quentin State Prison on September 18, 1959.[8]

Media
Suspect (played by Vic Perrin): "The reason I killed those girls was 'cause they asked me to. (pause) They did; all of them."
Sgt. Friday: "They asked you to?"
Suspect: "Sure. They said they'd rather be dead than be with me."

LAPD Captain Pierce Brooks, who was involved in Glatman's arrest and interrogation, served as a technical advisor for the film.[10]

See also

General:

References

  1. ^ a b "Harvey Glatman, "Glamour Girl Slayer"" (PDF). mammodt.asp.radford.edu. Radford, Virginia: Radford University. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  2. ^ "Murderer Confesses". The Daily Chronicle. DeKalb, Illinois. November 1, 1958. p. 6.
  3. ^ "BOULDER JANE DOE (Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe)". Silvia Pettem. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  4. ^ "News & Media". Bouldercounty.org. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  5. ^ Anas, Brittany (October 28, 2009). "Mystery solved: Boulder sheriff IDs 'Jane Doe' as Dorothy Gay Howard". Boulder Daily Camera. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  6. San Diego Union-Tribune. November 1, 1958. Archived
    from the original on November 5, 2018. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  7. ISBN 9781420066333
    .
  8. ^
    The Los Angeles Times. September 18, 1959. Archived
    from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  9. ISBN 1581821905
    .
  10. ^ Hayde (2001), p. 177.
  11. OCLC 37521832
    .

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