Pearl Fitzsimmons, a 67-year-old White woman from Eggertsville, New York, was dead inside her home on January 12, 1969, in a scene that also claimed the life of her husband, William J. Fitzsimmons. Later records would frame her death as the start of a grim chain of events that began behind a family’s closed door and quickly spilled into courtrooms, psychiatric wards, and years of public unease.
What happened in that house was described as an assault carried out by the couple’s only c
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