Abstract
In the spring of 1975, Hedda Nussbaum met attorney Joel Steinberg at a party given in East Hampton, Long Island. She found herself immediately attracted to him. “He had these bright, sparkly eyes and was very outgoing,” Hedda told People magazine. “He was very intelligent, and I loved listening to him talk.”1 Hedda, a beautiful, well-educated, and quickly rising children’s book editor at Random House, could not suspect that twelve years later her body and mind would be in ruins from a decade of almost unbelievable physical and emotional abuse. Nor could she suspect that twelve years later she would become Joel’s alleged accomplice in the murder of their illegally adopted daughter, Lisa.
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Bonnie Johnson, “A Love Betrayed, A Brief Life Lost,” People (13 February 1989), p. 87.
Ibid.
Ronald Sullivan, “Hedda Nussbaum, Filing Suit, Testifies to Personal Agony,” The New York Times (27 October 1994), p. B-3.
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Snow, R.L. (1997). Emotional Abuse and Control. In: Family Abuse. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6120-4_7
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