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Martha Nibley Beck (born November 29, 1962) is an American author, life coach, speaker, and sociologist. She holds bachelor's , master's , and PhD degrees from Harvard University . Beck is the daughter of Hugh Nibley , a deceased scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and apologist .
Raymond Martinez Fernandez (December 17, 1914 – March 8, 1951) and Martha Jule Beck (May 6, 1920 – March 8, 1951) were an American serial killer couple. They were convicted of one murder, are known to have committed two more, and were suspected of having killed up to twenty victims during a spree between 1947 and 1949.
It is a neo-noir based on the true story of the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers" spree killing of the 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez. [2] The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject of the 1970 film The Honeymoon Killers, directed by Leonard Kastle and the 1996 film Deep Crimson, directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, a serial killer couple who murdered a woman on Long Island in 1949 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Long Island serial killer .
Martha Beck is a sullen, overweight nursing administrator living in Mobile, Alabama, with her elderly mother. Martha's friend Bunny surreptitiously submits Martha's name to a "lonely hearts" club, which results in a letter from Raymond Fernandez of New York City. Overcoming her initial reluctance, Martha corresponds with Ray and becomes ...
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Nibley's daughter Martha Beck published Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith in 2005, describing her departure from the LDS Church, and claiming in 1990 she had recovered repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse by her father. Beck linked the abuse to her father's role as an apologist for the Mormon faith.
Martha Beck – On Long Island, Beck helped her boyfriend kill two women and a toddler. She was executed in the electric chair in 1951, requiring four applications of electricity before she was pronounced dead.