Harvey Glatman And The Disturbing Murders Of The 'Glamour Girl Slayer'

 

Harvey Glatman And The Disturbing Murders Of The 'Glamour Girl Slayer'

He would approach women posing as a photographer, and then act out his murderous desires. His first victim was 19-year-old model Judy Ann Dull. Harvey Murray Glatman (December 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer active during the late 1950s. He was known in the media as the Lonely Hearts Killer and the Glamour Girl Slayer. He would use several pseudonyms, posing as a professional photographer to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career. Harvey Glatman, also known as the Glamour Girl Killer, was a serial killer who posed as a fashion photographer to lure in women. He went to modeling agencies, claimed he needed women to pose for pulp fiction magazines, took them to his apartment, tied them up, and shot disturbing photos of them before sexually assaulting and killing them. He met this victim, Ruth Mercado, 24, through a modeling agency. When he arrived at her place for a planned photoshoot, he learned that she was feeling too ill to proceed.Undeterred by this fact, Glatman returned to her house hours later. This time, Glatman let himself in and raped her repeatedly at gunpoint throughout the night. In the morning, Glatman forced her to walk out to his car, and then drove her to the desert where he killed her in his usual manner. “She was one I really liked. So I told her we were going out to a deserted spot where we wouldn’t be bothered while I took more pictures,” Glatman later revealed during interrogation. “We drove out to the Escondido district and spent most of the day out on the desert.” “I took a lot more pictures and tried and tried to figure out how to keep from killing her. But I couldn’t come up with any answer.” Glatman was found guilty of three murders in 1957 and 1958, and was sentenced to death. Here is the story Glatman moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1957 and started trolling modeling agencies looking for potential victims. He would contact them with offers of work for pulp magazines, take them back to his apartment, tie them up and sexually assault them, taking pictures all the while. He would then strangle them and dump the bodies in the desert. Glatman's two known model victims were Judith Dull and Ruth Mercado. He met his third victim, Shirley Ann Bridgeford, through a Lonely Hearts ad in the newspaper. Glatman is also a suspect in the slaying of "Boulder Jane Doe," a victim whose corpse was discovered by hikers near Boulder, Colorado, in 1954. Her identity remained a mystery for 55 years. In October 2009, local authorities were notified by Dr. Terry Melton of Mitotyping Technologies in State College, Pennsylvania, that her lab had made a match between the Jane Doe's DNA profile and that of a woman who thought the unidentified murder victim might be her long-lost sister.The positive identification of "Boulder Jane Doe" was an 18-year-old woman from Phoenix, Arizona, named Dorothy Gay Howard. How He was Arrested, Glatman was arrested in 1958, caught in the act of kidnapping what would have been his fourth known murder victim, Lorraine Vigil.A patrolman saw him struggling with a woman at the side of the road and arrested him. He confessed to three murders and eventually led the police to a toolbox containing pictures he had taken of his victims. Glatman was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. He appeared to accept the sentence, even specifically asking the warden to do nothing to save his life. He was executed in the gas chamber of San Quentin State Prison on September 18, 1959.