An Active Crime Scene
Have you heard of the “Lonely Heart Killers?” A couple by the names of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez went on a killing spree between 1947 and 1949, murdering as many as 20 women they’d met through personal ads in newspapers. The pair was eventually caught for the murder of Delphine Downing and her 2-year-old daughter, Rainelle. Police searched the couple’s basement in Queens, New York, as the investigation continued. This photo shows them digging in the basement, where they would eventually find the remains of another woman.