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The Career Girl Murders

3 AM Mystery Club

English - June 11, 2021 12:38 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 109 ratings
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On a hot August day in New York City in 1963, the murder of two young women on the Upper East Side would lead to a game-changing Supreme Court Ruling, a setback to young women moving to the "big city" to pursue their dreams. It would also bring the conversation of racial profiling, forced confession, and false imprisonment to the forefront of conversation within American households nationwide. Join us a Branden leads us back from hiatus and straight into the era of Mad Men and the real-life Peggy Olsens whose lives ended well before they could properly start. 




Sources


A Crime to Remember, "The Career Girl Murders." ID Discovery, Nov. 19, 2013


https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26042860/career-girl-murders-initial-ny-daily/The Career Girl Murders: Gender, Race, and Crime in 1960s New York. Marilynn S. Johnson.


https://nypost.com/2013/08/18/the-career-girl-murders/


https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/nyregion/george-whitmore-jr-68-dies-falsely-confessed-to-3-murders-in-1964.html