Harvey Glatman

Infobox Serial Killer
name=Harvey Glatman


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birthname=Harvey Murray Glatman
alias=The Lonely-Hearts Killer
birth=October 1927
location=Bronx, New York
death=September 18, 1959
cause=Gas chamber
victims=3
country=USA
states=California
beginyear=1957
endyear=1958
apprehended=1958
penalty=Death

Harvey Murray Glatman (October 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer active during the late 1950s.

Early life

Born in the Bronx and raised in Colorado, Glatman exhibited antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early ageFact|date=August 2008. He was an amateur burglar and sex offender as a teenager, breaking into women's apartments so he could tie them up, molest them and take pictures as souvenirs. He was caught in one such act in 1945 and charged with attempted burglary. Less than a month later, while still out on bail awaiting trial, he kidnapped another woman and molested her before letting her go. She went to the police, and Glatman went to prison for eight months.

Once out of prison, Glatman moved to Albany, New York, where he was eventually arrested in 1947 for a series of muggings. He was given a 5–10 year prison sentence in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where prison psychiatrists diagnosed him as a psychopath. He was nevertheless a model prisoner and was granted an early release in 1956.

Murders

Glatman moved to Los Angeles, California in 1957 and started trolling around modeling agencies looking for women to satisfy his violent sexual urges. He would contact them with offers of work for pulp fiction magazines, take them back to his apartment, tie them up and rape them, taking pictures all the while. He would then strangle them and bury them in a nearby desert plot.

Glatman is also suspected in the death of Boulder Jane Doe, a beating victim who was located near Boulder, Colorado in 1954. [http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=8413] The victim has yet to be positively identified as no blood relatives of the most likely individual have been found. [http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=11334]

Arrest and death

He was arrested in 1958, caught in the act of kidnapping what would have been his fourth victim, and confessed to the other three murders. He was found guilty of first degree murder and executed in the gas chamber of San Quentin State Prison on September 18, 1959.

External links

* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/glatman/disappeared_1.html Crime Library article on Glatman]