Word: kendal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosecution told it, Fein shot his bookmaker to death in October, 1963, to avoid paying off a $23,890 World Series bet on the New York Yankees, stuffed his body into a trunk, and persuaded a bosomy, redheaded prostitute named Gloria Kendal to dump the trunk in the Harlem River for him. Somehow, the body floated clear, and when it was discovered a month after the murder, Gloria phoned Fein in a snit. "Don't you ever watch TV?" she asked him. "Didn't you ever hear of cement...
...best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent as a prostitute and a madam, Gloria has been known by at least 13 other proper names and by any number of improper ones. Whatever her name, Fein certainly did like her game. According to the prosecution, he spent...
After Gloria put in two days on the stand for the prosecution, Defense Attorney William Kleinman had a go at her. "You cannot decide this case," he had warned the jury, "until you've probed very deeply into Gloria Kendal and her friends." Kleinman got her to admit that she had continued to ply her trade during two Carriages, that she had once had "a romantic attachment with a female," that she had given at least two accounts of the shooting, at one point denied to police that Fein had ever admitted shooting Ruby. But Gloria seemed rattled only...