In 1957, Betty Fabiano and her husband, Peter, spent the night handing out Halloween candy in their idyllic Sun Valley neighborhood. After the doors were locked and the house was dark, a lone trick-or-treater knocked on the door. When Peter opened the door, a bowl of candy in hand, he was shot dead with a single bullet to the chest. To solve this crime, the investigators must navigate through a tangled web of lies and manipulation.
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Sources:
- https://thevintagewomanmagazine.com/mid-century-halloween-murder/
- https://www.insider.com/murders-halloween-night-2018-10#peter-fabiano-died-in-what-police-said-was-a-crime-of-passion-in-the-late-50s-6
- https://www.dailynews.com/2011/01/31/valley-retrospective-the-1950s/
- https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/17-bits-of-nostalgia-from-1957.htm
- https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/160268614/?terms=joan%20rabel&match=1
- https://klakstrom.medium.com/the-trick-or-treat-murder-of-peter-fabiano-151eb6a3983d
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/53n88a/the-bizarre-lesbian-murder-scandal-that-rocked-1950s-la
- https://medium.com/true-crime-addiction/unreturned-love-killed-on-halloween-true-crime-e6255ad408d9
- Los Angeles Mirror - December 7th, 1957 - Page 3
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/694253811/?terms=paul%20fabiano&match=1
- The Los Angeles Times - Saturday, November 02, 1957
- The Los Angeles Times - Wednesday, November 13, 1957
- The Los Angeles Times - Friday, November 22, 1957 Page 20
- https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381246155/?terms=peter%20fabiano&match=1
- The Los Angeles Times - Saturday, December 07, 1957
- https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381280046/
- Valley Times - Saturday, December 07, 1957 Page 2
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/580886681/?terms=joan%20rabel&match=1
- Valley Times - Saturday, December 07, 1957 Page 2
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/580052134/?terms=joan%20rabel&match=1
- The Los Angeles Times - Saturday, April 19, 1958
- https://latimes.newspapers.com/image/381012808/?terms=peter%20fabiano&match=1
