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...Joseph J. ("Flying Dutchman") Dunkel, a Cleveland parachute jumper, wired Samuel Church: "Plans complete. . . . Need $25,000. . . . Wire instructions and cash. We take off on receipt of expense money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: A Million for Hitler | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Cleveland, Joseph J. ("Flying Dutchman") Dunkel, professional parachute jumper who has made 2.226 'leaps from airplanes and balloons without injury, was hospitalized after tumbling off the end of a parked truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing got a sorry jolt when prim-looking, thin-lipped, bespectacled Mrs. Smith was caught in a Manhattan rooming house. Mrs. Dunkel made more headlines by expressing a fear that her friend had already killed Harry Jung, who could not be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Midwest Murders | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

With Mrs. Smith firmly enthroned as No. 1 villainess, Mrs. Dunkel piously whimpered: "Evelyn did it all differently than she promised. When she told me how she cut him up, it just made me sick. The way we talked it over, Evelyn was to put Erv to sleep, strangle him and throw him in the lake." Headline: PAID FOR A NEAT "LAKE JOB," IS HER PLAINT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Midwest Murders | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

According to diligent newshawks, Mrs. Dunkel, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, Mandeville Zenge and Mr. and Mrs. Waldman all had one thing in common. After they made their respective headlines, they all declared they had enjoyed "the best night's sleep in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Midwest Murders | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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