Episode 167: The Murder of Nancy Evans Titterton

In this week’s episode, Kate and Paul head to 1936 New York City where two deliverymen discover their recipient dead in her apartment. Would the crime scene investigation and toxicology of the time be enough to find the offender?

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Sources:

“1000 and 1 Clues Mask Bathtub Slayer, Says Cooper.” The San Francisco Call-Bulletin. April 13, 1936: P29.

Bovsun, Mara. “JUSTICE STORY: How NYPD Solved the Perplexing Murder of True Crime Writer Nancy Titterton.” NY Daily News. April 5, 2025. https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/05/justice-story-how-nypd-solved-the-perplexing-murder-of-true-crime-writer-nancy-titterton/

Cooper, Courtney Ryley. “Killer Listed as Worshiper of Dead.” The San Francisco Call-Bulletin. April 13, 1936: P29.

“Demands Death for Fiorenza in Titterton Case.” The Evening Sun. May 27, 1936: P3.

Eddy, Cheryl. “This Baffling 1936 Murder Was Solved with a Hair and a Piece of String.” Gizmodo. April 17, 2015. https://gizmodo.com/this-baffling-1936-murder-was-solved-with-a-hair-and-a-1698402177

Evans, Colin. Blood on the Table: City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Berkley Books, 2008. 

“Mud on Bed a Clue in Titterton Case.” New York Times. April 14, 1936: P1.

“Murder of Executive’s Wife in 1936 Solved through Early Forensics.” May 30, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/murder-of-executives-wife-in-1936-solved-through-early-forensics/

“A Single Horsehair Helps Convict the Killer of Nancy Titterton.” History Channel (blog). November 13, 2009 (updated May 27, 2025.) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-28/a-single-horsehair-uncovers-a-murderer

Tilstra, Elisabeth. “Caught by a Cord: The Murder of Nancy Titterton.” The Lineup. May 20, 2016. https://the-line-up.com/nancy-titterton-murder

Whalen, Bernard J., Philip Messing, and Robert Mladinich. Undisclosed Files of the Police: Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2016.