Re front page Lonergan heiress murder perp (not my usual browsing interest but came up in a search for what happened to Lonergan):
http://120daysofsodomy-vintagegaypulp.blogspot.com/2011/08/boy-avengers.html
“As is so often the case, I have no idea who “Karl Flinders” is, and as far as I can tell, this is his only credit. His inspiration is another matter: Grant’s back story draws liberally on facts of the notorious 1943 murder of cafe-society golden girl Patricia Burton Lonergan, heiress to a brewery fortune, by her husband Wayne, who beat her to death with a candlestick during a “twisted sex” encounter. Their
marriage was engineered by her father, a bisexual roue and Lonergan’s lover from the time the two met at the 1939 World’s Fair, where the 21-year-old former lifeguard was working as rickshaw boy, until his death a year later. (Below: Patricia and Wayne Lonergan)”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/heiress-murdered-husband-candelabra-bedroom-twisted-sex-crime-captivated-new-york-1943-article-1.1134922
A few juicy tidbits:
The father, Burton, was a hard-partying man who had a succession of handsome young men as his "protegees." He died in his 40's.
Lonergan, evidently a switch hitter, was classified 4F in the US for his homosexuality, but was accepted into the RCAF.
Mrs. Lonergan was also a hard partier who took lovers, including an Italian designer who liked to entertain married women with souffles and salads.
She was in the process of divorcing him, but when Lonergan showed up on leave to see his son, one thing lead to another and they ended up in bed. Something went terribly wrong, however, because he ended up with bite marks on his gentleman sausage and she eneded up with a candelabra in her skull.
The kid reached the age of majority, changed his name to Burton and got all of granddad's money.