‘The most wonderful person I’d ever met’
Wendy Steiner writes about the strange case of Hedda Nussbaum and Joel Steinberg
- Waverley Place by Susan Brownmiller
Hamish Hamilton, 294 pp, £12.95, August 1989, ISBN 0 241 12804 8
Joel Steinberg, who maimed his lover Hedda Nussbaum and killed their illegally-adopted daughter Lisa, complained that Lisa was in the habit of staring at him. By the time his murder trial was over, he had been stared at by millions of people, for under a New York State experiment, television cameras were allowed into court to cover the People v. Steinberg.
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