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Robert George Irwin
Robert George Irwin (1908–1975), an artist-sculptor and recurring mental hospital patient, pled guilty to killing three persons on Easter weekend in 1937 in the Beekman Hill area of New York City’s Turtle Bay neighborhood.
One of his victims, Veronica “Ronnie” Gedeon, was a model who often appeared in seductive pulp magazine pictures. The crime, its investigation, Irwin’s arrest, and the resulting court proceedings were heavily publicized, often with eye-catching photos of Miss Gedeon and headlines describing Irwin as the “mad sculptor.”〔“‘Mad Sculptor’ Awaits Trial for his Triple Murder Easter Morn,” Cumberland (MD) Times, 1938-10-16 at p. 3.〕 Veronica Gedeon left behind a portfolio of sexy photos that, in retrospect, had no relevance to the crime, its cause or Irwin’s responsibility for it. However, that coincidence kept the story on front pages of newspapers around the country for months, publicity which ultimately helped to bring Irwin into custody.
Irwin’s prosecution, which ended through a plea-bargain that kept him incarcerated for life, renewed debate about the use and scope of New York’s version of the insanity defense.〔Curtis Gathje, “A Model Crime: A True Fiction” (Donald I. Fine: 1995) ISBN 1-55611-428-1.〕〔“Irwin May Be Termed ‘Insanity Faker’ by Lunacy Commission,” Lowell Sun, 1938-03-24 at p. 1.〕〔Editorial, “Upsetting an Insanity Plea,” Syracuse Herald, 1938-03-26 at p. 2.〕 Once sentenced, Irwin was deemed “definitely insane” by state psychiatrists.〔“Doctors Declare Irwin ‘Definitely Insane,’” The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua (NY), 1938-12-10 at p. 1.〕 He spent the rest of his life in secure mental institutions.〔 A new book about Robert Irwin, Harold Schechter's ''The Mad Sculptor'' (2014), has been well-received. Wall St. J., March 22, 2014, p. C8.
==Personal background==
The son of evangelist parents, Irwin was reportedly born in a tent on an old-fashioned camp meeting ground in Portland, Oregon.〔“Triple Slaying at Beekman Hill Reported Solved,” Joplin (MO) Globe, 1937-04-06 at p. 1.〕 However, he was actual born in the Arroyo Seco Park near Pasadena, California on August 5, 1907. He was named for the nearby river (as was the park) and one of his father's favorite theologians, François Fénelon (1651-1715). Hence, he entered life as Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin. He later changed his name, much to the horror of his devout mother, to honor his philosophical idol the agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899).〔Harold Schechter. ''The Mad Sculptor''. Boston and New York: New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, pp. 61, 80.〕 His father was Rev. Benjamin Hardin Irwin, a nationally-known figure in the Holiness movement who had founded a racially integrated radical Holiness denomination in 1898 at a national convention in legally segregated Anderson, South Carolina. He denounced as sinful everything from Coca-Cola to wearing ties. (The body Irwin founded is now known as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.) In 1900, a sexual scandal ended his career with the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church and the senior Irwin went solo. In Canada sometime during 1902, he married Robert's mother, Mary Lee Jordan of Texas, without divorcing his first wife.〔Schechter pp. 53, 56-60.〕 His father deserted the family before Robert was three years old, leaving them impoverished.〔Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee, alias Ellery Queen, “The Case of the Mad Sculptor,” The American Weekly, 1957-03-10 at p. 11.〕 When a family court judge noted that Robert could learn a trade at a state reformatory, he volunteered and spent fifteen months there, where he first learned to sculpt.〔 He soon idolized Lorado Taft, one of the leading American sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and later moved in with Taft’s family. Then, working for a waxworks studio in Los Angeles,〔Jennifer Jane Marshall, “(Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble’s Depression-era Soap Carving Contests ),” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2008.〕 he carved commercial busts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other public figures.〔
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