steff13
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Who wouldn't want their Mama's murder/ disappearance solved?
Well, if there's an indication their father was involved, they might just rather not think about .
Who wouldn't want their Mama's murder/ disappearance solved?
Well, if there's an indication their father was involved, they might just rather not think about .
I find it odd that only his first wife is listed on his find a grave. Zero mention of Dorothy.
She's been completely erased. Who would do that,and why?
“I believe these killers are best described as eraser killers, because that term describes simply and succinctly both their motives and their methods. Their victims are not ‘missing women’ or ‘vanished wives’. They are women who have been erased, just as repressive political regimes have used the method of ‘forced disappearances’ to dispose of their enemies and strike terror into all those who oppose them. The impact of so many women being ‘erased’ or ‘disappeared’, from our very midst, from homes and communities we assumed to be ‘safe’, is overwhelming in its magnitude and undermines so many of the fundamentals of which our trust and sense of security is based. These eraser killers exploit the safeguards built into our legal system — principles enshrined in our constitution to protect honest citizens from unreasonable searches of their property and from being forced or coerced into making a false confession — as if those honored protections were simply escape hatches built to provide safe haven for someone capable of pulling off an expert murder.”
— Marilee Strong, Erased
Just some food for thought.
Yes, it's odd she was already incapacitated on the floor when the man came up the stairs. I wonder what the time period was between the time her husband left and the phone call and when the daughter saw her lying on the floor.Very strange story and no pictures. What I find hard to understand is the daughter seeing her mother lying face down as the man was coming up the stairs, so was she was already dead or maybe given poison, or better still sleeping pills. (poison would have probably made her sick and she could have called for help.
Did the husband have a girl friend? Didn't her family get involved? It is true that in the 40's life was very different than today, We really know nothing,
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We do know that Magistrate Jules Forstein was Jewish.
Jules Forstein (1906-1956) - Find a Grave...
We also know that several months earlier two anti-Semitic Philadelphia policemen severely beat a Jewish man outside a police station (19 Sep 1944). The case was assigned to Magistrate Jules Forstein.
Then, Forsteins wife was also severely beaten (26 Jan 1945). The attached article states that the man who beat her wanted the Magistrate to sign a copy of the charge for a "friend" who was in jail.
Then, several months later, both the policemen and the Jewish man were acquitted by another (non-Jewish) judge, (24 May 1945), who was now handling the case and states (in the attached article) that Judge Jules Forstein should have stopped the case in his court.
It appears that if someone was capable of severally beating a man because he was Jewish and make remarks like "It is because of your kind that we are in this war" and "If this were Germany we wouldn't beat you. We would kill you", then I would think they, or someone of like mindset, would have no problem beating the wife of the Jewish judge to intimidate him. (see article)
Was antisemitism the reason this hot potato case had a change of venue to yet a third judge and all charges were dropped? Even the Assistant City Solicitor James Ryan made an anti-Semitic remark.
Other news articles note that Judge McBride is a Democrat and Judges Forstein and Fenerty are Republicans. The last article shows that the judge was remarried and it seems that the children were needing protection from something.
Ancestry.com shows that the judge married Dorothy Cooper in 1942. That was after the death of his first wife, Molly Melaten Forstein 2 Jul 1940, who, I believe, died in childbirth. Dorothy was reported missing by her husband on Thursday, two days after her disappearance on Tuesday.
It appears that his wife Dorothy was still beneficiary at the time of his death.
Name: Dorothy Forstein
Marriage Date: 1942
Marriage Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
That does explain a couple of things:
Dorothy disappeared without a trace, thus could not be declared legally dead until 7 years passed since she was last known alive;
Julius dies 6 years after her disappearance, thus the estate reverts to his still-legal and undeclared deceased wife - Dorothy;
Dorothy's brother is named trustee of the estate as the children are still legal minors at the time of Julius' death;
Judge assures the children he will follow the estate to ensure they are not taken advantage of before they are able to have Dorothy declared deceased and inherit the estate themselves.
Also explains why Dorothy's name does not appear on Julius' headstone too. I do find it interesting that Julius never filed for divorce from Dorothy as he well could have and that, combined with the beating case angle from the articles you've linked, gives me a feeling that he actually wasn't involved.
But, how to explain the perps entrance into their house??
Total assets were around 15K, with the majority, 9K, in Dorothy's safety deposit box. As far as the perp gaining access to the front door, Dorothy was pretty paranoid since the beating so I'd almost assume she had it locked while her husband was away. He had to have had a key to get in. Marcy said he went directly to her mother's room where she saw her lying face down when she came in to the bedroom. Either she was drugged, fainted or was knocked out because she didn't resist or fight when she was picked up.
I believe this was planned since the husband just happened to be away that night and the perp knew exactly where to go when he got upstairs. It's possible the judge was involved or this was done to retaliate in a case he had been a judge in or it was done to sway his judgement in a current case. The man who beat her years earlier told her he wanted the judge to sign a copy of a charge for a friend who was in jail, whatever that means. I still think dirty cops were involved and the one who beat her was possibly one of the same ones who beat the Jewish heckler.
I agree that the perp had obtained/had been given a key and a layout. That is the only thing that makes sense. I gave it some more thought today and came to the conclusion, based on everything we do know [and my own head space & timing] lol, that hubby must have been involved. I've explained away, in my brain again, that he didn't divorce her because that would not have "looked good" for a judge given she was officially "only missing" and that his intent was to have her declared deceased after 'the respectable' 7 year missing period - then ALL would be his to do with what he wished. He just didn't plan on dying himself before that 7 years had elapsed.
That 15K in 1949 is equivalent to ~ 180K today so definitely serves as a viable motive to disappear her.