On August 6, Crater purchased a ticket to a Broadway show, then took a cab across town to have dinner with a showgirl named Sally Lou Ritz and his friend, William Klein. Both Klein and Ritz tell different stories about what happened after dinner. At first, both stated that the judge took a separate cab to the play but changed the story and said Crater walked alone to the theater.
Either way, no one saw Crater after that night.
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For the Love of Money
Despite warnings, Gail goes to the press with the letter, hoping to embarrass Getty Sr. and force him to pay up. But that didn’t happen. In November of that same year, a Roman newspaper received a package with a lock of red hair from Paul’s head and his right ear!
August 2022 Newsletter
The Perfect Storm. Scholars often think of an alignment of catastrophic interactions as coincidence. Is it possible to apply that phrase to a sixty-year-old mystery?