VIVIAN GORDON MURDER 1931 -The well-to-do 40 year old redhead, reputedly a high class prostitute, earned vast sums of money by blackmailing prominent men after having sex with them. A week before her murder she had also made allegations about police involvement in sex scandals and corruption. According to an elevator attendant she was wearing an ankle-length mink coat, expensive watch and a large diamond ring when she left her posh, apartment at 156 East 37th Street. She got into a Cadillac at about 11 The next morning her beaten & strangled body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park

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