No Choice

DESCRIPTION:

On this episode of They Walk Among America… It was the mid-afternoon of Wednesday, June 6th, 1962, in the Jamaica Estates North area of Queens. The street was cordoned off outside of one of the large ranch-style houses on Union Turnpike. The road had been torn up by heavy machinery, and construction workers were standing idly by. It would have been reasonable to assume that there were maintenance works underway if not for the heavy police presence. Crime scene investigators were reaching down into the sewer line that was flowing from the house and pulling out pieces of human flesh. The homeowner was nowhere to be found, but the police suspected that the victim was a teenage girl who had been brought to the residence for an illegal abortion…

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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.

This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.

Researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann.

Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.

MUSIC: 

Things Gone Wrong by Moments

Old Moor by Lincoln Davis

In Search of Discovery by Cast of Characters

Unrelenting by Dakota Mack

Wooden by Wicked Cinema

Evil Intent by Kurtis Parks

C'est La Vie by Reveille

Tippy Toe by VOLK

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

Trench by Lincoln Davis

Haunted by Emorie

For more information, visit https://lawandcrime.com/podcasts/ or https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com/

REFERENCES:

COURT DOCUMENTS

https://casetext.com/case/lothringer-v-lothringer

ONLINE ARTICLES

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/18/nyregion/sad-juncture-2-troubled-lives-for-second-time-focus-doctor-after-patient-s-death.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/22/archives/charges-reduced-in-fatal-abortion-lothringer-pleads-to-2d-degree.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-doctor-carved-up-his-patient-in-trumps-old-neighborhood

https://www.longislandpress.com/2016/04/29/52336/

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/baddoc1.shtml

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/21/nyregion/doctor-defends-treatment-of-girl-who-killed-herself.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/20/nyregion/suicide-in-jail-leads-county-to-cancel-pact.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19970625145642/http://www.nynews.com/archive/jail6021.htm

http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2010/06/1962-macabre-tale-of-barbara-lofrumento.html

https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/harvey-norman-lothringer-%E2%80%9941

https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/education-and-training/psychiatry-residency/recent-graduates

https://creativenonfiction.org/writing/piecing-it-together/ 

NEWSBANK

Times Union, The (Albany, NY), September 21, 1996

Fairfield County Weekly (Bridgeport, CT), January 23, 1997

Gainesville Sun, The (FL), October 20, 1997

Columbus Dispatch, The (OH), March 31, 1998

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 27, 1998

New York Daily News (NY), December 14, 1998