New York police are engaged in their biggest manhunt since the Linbergh case, looking for the individual they believed to be responsible for a gruesome triple slaying in a Manhattan apartment. The victims include beautiful pulp-fiction True-Crime magazine model, Veronica Gedeon, but her mother and a deaf English lodger who lived with her have also been savagely killed. The prime suspect is a sculptor named Robert Irwin. On the run, he rings the 'Chicago Herald-Examiner' with a lucrative deal: Five thousand dollars in exchange for his exclusive story, his connection with the victim and her family and details on why he committed the murders, (and emasculated himself). The newspaper agrees to pay and Irwin turns himself over to authorities. The sculptor uses the money to hire one of the best lawyers in America to to represent him... and avoids the chair, dying in an institution in 1975.
