The Scandalous Murder of Louis Schulman
(Listen to the podcast version of this story here ) On the snowy evening of February 2, 1944, Dr. Louis Schulman, a prominent 42-year-old physician from the affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, left his office in the Oakland Medical Building on Fifth Avenue with one of his patients, 23-year-old Jeannette Coury. The doctor had offered to drive Miss Coury home, and she accepted. They walked through the brisk night air along Fifth Avenue, and when they reached the intersection with Halket Street just before ten o'clock, a hooded figure wearing a gabardine raincoat emerged from the darkness and stepped between them. Suddenly, a gunshot shattered the silence, and Dr. Schulman clutched his chest. As he slumped to the pavement, Dr. Schulman glanced at the shooter and a twinge of recognition reflected in his eyes, followed by mortal fear. "Oh my God, she's crazy!" he cried, pulling himself up and attempting to run down Fifth Avenue, in the direction of Montef...
