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In modern times, serial killers have been a popular focus for psychological fascination, public terror, and (most often) crime-related television shows. Sadly, the innermost demons of human nature which motivate these kinds of murderous acts have no apparent end in sight. While Florida isn’t especially known for such killers, Milton is able to claim Martha J. Seabrook Beck, aka one of the “Lonely Hearts Killers,” as one of its own natives.
Martha Beck, left, and Raymond Fernandez (third from left), listen as Assistant District Attorney Philip Huntington of Nassau County, N.Y., (not pictured) appeals for extradition of the couple to the state of New York, at Lansing, Mich., March 8, 1949. Fernandez and Beck are charged with the slaying of Albany, N.Y., widow Janet Fay, 50, of Valley Stream, N.Y.
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