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Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck The Chilling Story of the couple who lured single woman with personal ads -- Then Brutally murdered them  In 1947, a single mother from Florida named Martha Beck placed a personal ad that got the attention of Raymond Fernandez, a Spanish-American con man who believed he held supernatural powers over women. Fernandez had never made an honest dime in his life and abandoned his wife and four children at a young age.  And when he took a boat from Spain to the United States in 1945, a piece of steel rigging fell and hit him on the head — and reportedly turned him into a sex-addicted predator. Fernandez then spent a year in a Tallahassee prison for robbery in 1946, and was taught the ways of Voodoo and black magic by a cellmate, soon convincing him that he could control women's minds. ⁠ ⁠ Once he was free, he relentlessly trawled so-called "lonely hearts" ads placed by single women in romance magazines and newspapers — with plans to bilk the wo...