    
Title: Starr Faithfull Description: Starr Faithfull (Starr Wyman, 1906-1931), a beautiful, high-living and tragic flapper, whose mysterious 1931 death was viewed as a murder; three days after she had been reported missing by a family member, she was found dead on a Long Island, New York, beach, on June 8, 1931, an autopsy revealing that she had died from drowning; her strange fate was never determined, but it was believed that she either committed suicide by leaping into the ocean or was pushed off a ship in New York Harbor; a second autopsy revealed bruises about her neck and head that may have been caused in a struggle with an unknown lover, who drowned her, according to one theory; the death of this twenty-five-year-old girl remains unsolved to this day; Starr Faithfull was the role model for the character portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1960 film, Butterfield 8. Category: Crime Keywords: crime, criminal justice, criminology, law enforcement, missing persons, unsolved crimes Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2130 x 2510 (5.35 MPixels) (1.18) Print Size: 18.0 x 21.3 cm; 7.1 x 8.4 inches File Size: 15.32 MB (16,059,206 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001739 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
