Before today's case begins, I would like to ask a question to all female friends, are you single? If yes, then congratulations, if you lived in Michigan, USA in the 1950s, then you have a good chance of being targeted by a pair of serial killers, these two people
Fernandez and Seabrook
Their goal is to kill all the single women in the world!
In a small town in Michigan, there lives a young widow Delfina. Downing
Delfina and her daughter
She had a two-year-old daughter, and since February 28, 1949, Delfina's neighbors had always heard the cries of children, and they felt that something was wrong, plus they had never seen Delfina and her little daughter go out in the past few days, and the neighbors suspected that something had happened to the mother and daughter, so they called the police.
On March 1, the police arrived at Delfina's residence, and after entering Delfina's home, the officers found a strange man and woman, Raymond. Fernandez and Martha. Seabrook
Subsequently, during the search, the police found the bodies of Delfina's mother and daughter in the basement
Police search the basement
So Fernandez and Seabrook, on suspicion of killing Delfina's mother and daughter were arrested, in the course of interrogation, the police told Fernandez that if he did not confess guilt, he would be sent to New York for interrogation, New York has the death penalty and Michigan does not have it, Fernandez immediately instigated when he heard it, and quickly confessed, and finally Fernandez and Seabrook were still transferred to New York for interrogation
Martha. Seabrook
Because there is evidence that the two killed as many as 20 women! Fernandez and Seabrook, through the ads of lonely minds, attract single women and then kill them one by one
Lonely Minds Advertisement
Seabrook played a very important role in this frenzied killing
In order to lure single women to their own residences, Seabrook often pretended to be Fernandez's sister, so that the single woman saw that there was another woman in the family, usually let down her guard, they initially aimed to defraud the single woman of money, and then in order to prevent the matter from being revealed, they simply killed the victim!
On several occasions, Seabrook couldn't stand her man Fernandez hanging out with other women, so she stepped forward and killed each other, and in early 1949, a 66-year-old rich woman, Janet. Fie was tricked back home by Fernandez
Janet. phenanthrene
Janet has been single for a long time, she has always longed to have a boyfriend, when she saw the advertisement of the lonely mind was immediately attracted, she thought she finally met true love, so she moved to Long Island and Fernandez to live with, she always felt that Fernandez's "sister" Seabrook was a bit strange, but did not care much, when Seabrook found out that Janet slept with Fernandez, jealousy burned, she took a hammer, while Janet was asleep, hit Janet's head hard, Janet died on the spot, Fernandez and Seabrook then dealt with the crime scene and dumped Janet's body into the wilderness.
Janet's disappearance aroused the suspicion of the family, who suspected that Janet had been killed by Fernandez, and that Fernandez and Seabrook had to flee New York immediately, in fact, before Janet, more than a dozen single women had been killed by Fernandez and Seabrook, and the two of them fled while killing each other, until February 1949, when the two arrived in a small town in the Great Rapids, Michigan
Delphine. Downing's home
And as a brother and sister, she moved into the home of delfina, a young widow, and on the 28th, delfina was in a very bad mood, so she ate the sleeping pills given to her by Fernandez, after which Delfina passed out
Delphine. Downing
Delfina's little daughter burst into tears when she saw her mother pass out, and her cry annoyed Seabrook, who stepped forward and grabbed the little girl by the neck and knocked her unconscious, while Fernandez shot delfina to death.
For the next few days, Delfina's little daughter cried and looked for her mother, and finally Seabrook couldn't stand it and drowned her in the bathtub
Delfina's daughter
To cover up their crimes, Fernandez and Seabrook buried the bodies of Delfina's mother and daughter in the basement, and although neither of them confessed to the crime, both were sentenced to death and sent to electric chairs because of the solid evidence
A photo of the two at trial
Before dying, Fernandez shouted, "I'm going to shout out loud!" I love Martha! ”
Martha. Seabrook was born on May 6, 1920 in Milton, Florida, United States
Because of the problem of glands, Seabrook was very fat from an early age, she was troubled by this, Seabrook was once sexually assaulted by her brother when she was young, and later she told her mother about it, Seabrook not only did not get comfort from her mother, but was beaten badly, the mother said that Seabrook himself was a slut, in that era the status of women was very low, and the aggrieved Seabrook could only choose to run away from home.
After graduating from secondary school, Seabrook entered nursing school
Seabrook's nursing school
She longed to become a nurse after graduation, after graduation Seabrook ran into a wall when looking for a job, because of her excessive obesity, no hospital was willing to hire her, and finally Seabrook could only temporarily give up being a nurse, she hoped to find a job to support herself, she found a job in a funeral home, specializing in the grooming of female deceased, after working in the funeral home for a while, Seabrook decided to leave Milton, after resigning, Seabrook came to California, She managed to find a job as a nurse at a military hospital, but the management of the military hospital was so chaotic that Seabrook was sexually assaulted by a man shortly after working, and worse, she became pregnant.
Later Seabrook can only go to the man, she wants to marry him, but the other party refused, as an unmarried pregnant woman, Seabrook in the military hospital can not stay, she can only return to her hometown, after returning to her hometown Seabrook told the surrounding people that the father of the child in her belly is a soldier, she and the child's father have been married, but the child's father died in the Pacific War, the townspeople heard about Seabrook's deeds after sympathizing with her, and later her deeds also appeared in the local newspaper, Seabrook gave birth to a daughter not long after Seabrook and a man named Affled. Baker's bus driver got mixed up, and after Seabrook became pregnant again, Baker married her, but the marriage lasted only 6 months before Baker filed for divorce, Seabrook became single with two children, and Seabrook met Fernandez
Fernandez
Fernandez is a bad fraudster, at first he was just to deceive Seabrook some money, Fernandez and Seabrook after spending some time together, found that Seabrook not only had no money, but also with two "drag oil bottles", so he left Seabrook, back to New York, Fernandez this walk, took Seabrook's heart away, she could not take care of the two children, followed by New York, Seabrook's desperate behavior made Fernandez impressed
After that he found that Seabrook accepted any of his requests unconditionally, even bad habits were all pandered to, he felt that Seabrook must love himself very much, so he dragged out the theft and fraud he had committed, Seabrook heard that Fernandez could tell her such an important secret, must love her very much, she felt more and more that Fernandez was his true love, and since then the two people have begun to trick and kill single women, Seabrook feels that those women who are killed deserve it, who calls them single, In fact, as a long-term single and obese woman, although Seabrook has always emphasized that she is for love, and beautified her murder story into a love story, in fact, she did not realize until her death that the women who were killed by herself are just her own shadow, she herself has been in a single state, even more miserable than the average single woman, in the heart Seabrook has always hated herself who was once single, as for the fraudster Fernandez, his prefrontal cortex has been damaged, Damage to this area can make a person impulsive and irritable, and many brain imaging scans have shown that murderers and people with antisocial tendencies mostly have problems with damaged frontal lobes.