The Victims by Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth G. Gross

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads, I examine the Career Girls Murders of Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert on August 28, 1963. Ellroy covered the case in an article for Vanity Fair, but his inspiration for that article was the definitive book on the case The Victims by Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth G. Gross.

As you have come to expect from the show, I give plenty of behind the scenes content about Ellroy’s professional relationship with Vanity Fair. Moreover, I discuss the events which led to the brutal murder of Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert and the disturbing miscarriage of justice that followed.

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