On the same day as Martin Luther King Jr’s infamous “I Have a Dream”, in Manhattan, NYC, three girls in their twenties stayed home instead of joining the rest of the city in DC for the speech live, so that they could work, while one moved out of the apartment they all shared. The 3rd floor apartment was located in a 9 story building on East 88th Street and had been a temporary home for Emily Hoffert, before she moved on to Long Island to began her teaching career.
Her roommates, Patricia Tolles worked at Time-Life and Janice Wylie worked at Newsweek, both working girls trying to be independent from their parents, though Janice’s lived around the block.
That morning was beautiful and Patricia left the house after securing the service door in the kitchen and saying goodbye to Emily & Janice. Around 1PM, Patricia received a troubling phone call from Janice’s father: no one had heard from her and she hadn’t reported to work. Further bad news came when Patricia spoke to a mutual friend who was to have lunch with Emily, who never showed.
Finally returning home, Patricia found that the service door in the kitchen was ajar and the house had looked like it had been ransacked. Max, Janice’s father showed up and found something worse: two bodies in one of the bedrooms.
Suddenly, all working women in America and their parents were worried, and Manhattan felt under attack as the murders went unsolved…for a time. Until out of nowhere, a confession is given and an arrest is made.