This is the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, who met in 1947 when he was trying to con her. She ended up joining his con using lonely hearts magazines. She dumped her children at a Salvation Army in 1948 to be with him and from 1948-1949 they went on their con-and-killing spree. They were caught in 1949 after killing a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. They had also killed two other women. They were executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing on the same day in 1951. She was 31 and he was 36. There was another movie named Lonely Hearts (2006) made about this case with Jared Leto (Raymond), Salma Hayek (Martha - who really looks absolutely nothing like the real Martha Beck!!), John Travolta (Det. Robinson), Laura Dern (Rene - John's girlfriend), and James Gandolfi (Det. Hilderbrandt) heading the cast. There are also turns by Scott Caan (James' son), Ellen and Sam Travolta (two of John's siblings), and Jason Gray-Stanford (from Monk).
Review of Lonely Hearts
