Legally, the case was wrapped up with what the papers called a "judicial triple play." Eddie was sworn in and asked to identify the woman who shot him; only then did he look at Ruth. When defense attorney Michael Brodkin waived cross-examination, asking only that the psychiatric report on Ruth be included in the court… Read more

The bullet Ruth had planted in Eddie had come within a quarter-inch of severing his pulmonary artery. "What do you think of that?" he joked with newsmen from his hospital bed. "Four island invasions in the Pacific and not even a headache." Read more

"Yeah," chimed in his father, Gerald, a Philadelphia cop. "They were doing the Glorious Mysteries." Read more

"Why did you shoot me?" he asked her again. Read more

At the hotel that evening, Ruth ate dinner and ordered a daiquiri and two whiskey sours. She then found some stationery, sat down at a table, and wrote two notes. The first was for her parents. In it, she said: "I hope you understand things.… I love you." The second was for Eddie. She sealed it in an envelope. When… Read more

Ruth Steinhagen checked into the Edgewater on Monday, June 13, with the alias Ruth Anne Burns. The alias belonged to a young woman with whom Eddie Waitkus had attended high school; Ruth had found her name and photograph in an old yearbook. At Wrigley Field the following day, Ruth sat amid a sparse crowd of 7,815 as… Read more