Murder of Nancy Titterton

In the late 1920s, Ohio-born Nancy Evans worked for the New York Post where she met her husband, Englishman Lewis Henry Titterton. After the couple married in 1929, and her husband was promoted as an executive of the National Broadcasting Company, the couple moved to Manhattan near the East River. Her husband was described as a man who "thought the future of radio depended on the vision of the writer". One of her works was honored with the cover of Story Magazine. In 1935, she was offered a book deal following the publication of one of her short stories, and in 1936, she was preparing to write her first novel. == Crime ==

On the morning of April 10, 1936, 34-year-old Nancy Titterton was killed at her apartment at 22 Beekman Place. Her body was discovered that afternoon by Theodore Kruger and John Fiorenza, two furniture repairmen who were delivering a repaired couch. There was little evidence at the crime scene apart from a piece of cord and a single hair found on the bed. The case was solved after Alexander Gettler, a scientist at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, traced the hair to a local upholstery shop recently visited by Titterton. Fiorenza, an ex-convict, confessed to the crime. Fiorenza faced trial for the murder which concluded on May 28, 1936. The jury took 19 hours to reach a guilty verdict. Fiorenza was sentenced to death. Fiorenza was held at Sing Sing prison. He was executed on January 22, 1937, in the electric chair. == References ==