For Love of Audrey Rose
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Hoover stumbled closer. The black smoke seared his lungs. He kept low to the wet earth. There was a rush of hot air, and flames licked upward from the engine block. In the rear window, black hair torn into streamers, Jennie beat against the glass.
“daddydaddyhothothot!”
The scream barely came through the roar of the flames.
“Ivy!” shouted Bill.
“daddydaddyhothothot!”
Hoover knelt forward. The heat sucked at his eyes. Flames shot up over the roof. Smoke twined lazily from the upholstery inside. Jennie began to choke.
“IVY!!!” Bill bellowed.
“daddydaddyhothothot!”
“Dear God! No!” Hoover wailed in anguish. “Not this time!
Article from THE AMERICAN INQUIRER, reprinted in its entirety, dated February 3, 1976.
by Shawn Tyneham
Exactly one year ago today, the trial concluded which shocked New York and sent ripples of horror and dismay throughout the nation. On December 5, 1974, Judge Harmon T. Langley, presiding over The People of New York versus Elliot Suggins Hoover, opened session for the first time in the Criminal Courts Building, Part Seven, in downtown Manhattan. The charge: kidnapping. The victim: 10-year-old Ivy Templeton, daughter of a rising young executive in the advertising world. But in less than two months, Ivy was dead. Not from her ordeal at the hands of the suspect, Elliot Hoover, but as a result of the bizarre and inexorable machinations of Judge Langley’s own court.
