Word: 3x
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where Joseph Mozynsky and Catherine May, lovers, sat in a parked car near Little Neck, L. I. He ordered Mozynsky into the front seat, then shot him. The girl he escorted to a bus, sent her home. Next day, the New York Journal received a letter signed "A V 3X," which confessed the slaying, said the motive was to recover important international documents...
...Elizabeth ("Betty") Ring, lovers, sat parked among trees in an automobile. A man stepped up, demanded papers, shot Sowley dead, escorted Miss Ring to a bus, sent her home. Before Sowley's body had been discovered, the Journal had received, but not yet opened, a letter from "A V 3X" describing the murder...
...MISSION IS ENDED. The first sign of this signature means A, the supreme tribunal of the order. The second, V, its special agent. The two combined (forming a diamond) form the Red Diamond of Russia, a secret order all over the world. . . . Quiet your people and tell them 3X is no more...
Last week one Dewey Ede, tramp, told the Lancaster, Pa. police that he had bunked overnight with a man answering the description of the maniac. The man had said: "They call me the 3X slayer. . . . Now that my mission has been completed I will head for Harrisburg and then to New Orleans and take a boat back to the old country...
Meantime, New York's police kept hunting, and New York's press mourned the end of a ten-day wonder story. However, the romantic aspect of 3X diminished when Misses May and Ring revealed that his motive with them had been sex at pistol point...