Word: loveseat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat, had urged him to return it as quickly as possible. Fiorenza had a long-standing abnormal relationship to his mother which produced in his split personality powerful desires to commit cruel acts. His temporary possession of Mrs. Titterton's "loveseat" acted as a sufficiently strong stimulus for his disorganized...