Raymond Fernandez was a charming man who, after a tragic accident, used that charm to seduce women in an effort to steal their money. Martha Beck was a desperately lonely woman with two children whose sole goal in life was to find a man to love her. Their paths would cross, by pure chance, with an ad placed in a Lonely Hearts Club, a service used to find a spouse. This one ad would connect these two and would end with the deaths of 3 people. This is the story of The Lonely Hearts Killers.

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