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