Carolina Maroconi

Caroline Moriconi, often recorded as Carolina Maroconi, a 27-year-old white woman from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, slipped into the shadows of a wooded lane off Cypress Lane on a cold night in November 1940, sharing a few stolen hours of intimacy with her companion, Ludovicum J. Kovacs. The couple, both from the Trenton area and involved in a secret affair, had chosen this quiet back road because it was far from neighbors’ windows and the judgment of their own families, a pattern familiar t ...