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Janet Fay

Case from Grand Rapids, MI dated Feb 26, 1949

Victim Details

Janet Fay

Female

White / Caucasian

Grand Rapids

MI

1949-02-26

66

Janet

Fay

07/10/2026

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In the winter of 1949, the life of 66-year-old Janet Fay, a woman seeking companionship, came to a tragic and violent end. Her story is intertwined with a pair of notorious murderers who preyed on the lonely and vulnerable through personal ads. Fay, a resident of Albany, New York, had connected with a man she knew as 'Charles Martin' through a lonely hearts club. This man was, in reality, Raymond Fernandez, who, along with his accomplice and lover Martha Beck, orchestrated a scheme to defraud an ...
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