A.K.A.: "Easter Killer"
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Former insane asylum inmate
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: March 27, 1937
Date of arrest: June 26, 1937
Date of birth: 1907
Victims profile: Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a man Frank Byrnes
Method of murder: Strangulation / Stabbing with icepick
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on November 1938. Died in 1975
As a teenager, Robert changed his name to honor his hero, atheist Robert Ingersoll (Robert's father was a minister and traveling evangelist who had been disgraced after consorting with prostitutes. The senior Irwin founded the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church in Anderson Co., SC in 1898--the first documented integrated denomination in the United States. It is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.) At birth, Robert received the name Fenelon Arryo Seco Irwin. The father deserted the family when Fenelon was a child. For a detailed treatment of his life and crimes see The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter (published in 2014).
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Former insane asylum inmate
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: March 27, 1937
Date of arrest: June 26, 1937
Date of birth: 1907
Victims profile: Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a man Frank Byrnes
Method of murder: Strangulation / Stabbing with icepick
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on November 1938. Died in 1975
As a teenager, Robert changed his name to honor his hero, atheist Robert Ingersoll (Robert's father was a minister and traveling evangelist who had been disgraced after consorting with prostitutes. The senior Irwin founded the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church in Anderson Co., SC in 1898--the first documented integrated denomination in the United States. It is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.) At birth, Robert received the name Fenelon Arryo Seco Irwin. The father deserted the family when Fenelon was a child. For a detailed treatment of his life and crimes see The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter (published in 2014).
A.K.A.: "Easter Killer"
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Former insane asylum inmate
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: March 27, 1937
Date of arrest: June 26, 1937
Date of birth: 1907
Victims profile: Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a man Frank Byrnes
Method of murder: Strangulation / Stabbing with icepick
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on November 1938. Died in 1975
As a teenager, Robert changed his name to honor his hero, atheist Robert Ingersoll (Robert's father was a minister and traveling evangelist who had been disgraced after consorting with prostitutes. The senior Irwin founded the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church in Anderson Co., SC in 1898--the first documented integrated denomination in the United States. It is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.) At birth, Robert received the name Fenelon Arryo Seco Irwin. The father deserted the family when Fenelon was a child. For a detailed treatment of his life and crimes see The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter (published in 2014).
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Former insane asylum inmate
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: March 27, 1937
Date of arrest: June 26, 1937
Date of birth: 1907
Victims profile: Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a man Frank Byrnes
Method of murder: Strangulation / Stabbing with icepick
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on November 1938. Died in 1975
As a teenager, Robert changed his name to honor his hero, atheist Robert Ingersoll (Robert's father was a minister and traveling evangelist who had been disgraced after consorting with prostitutes. The senior Irwin founded the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church in Anderson Co., SC in 1898--the first documented integrated denomination in the United States. It is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.) At birth, Robert received the name Fenelon Arryo Seco Irwin. The father deserted the family when Fenelon was a child. For a detailed treatment of his life and crimes see The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter (published in 2014).
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