Murder of Nancy Titterton

Murder of Nancy Titterton
LocationBeekman Place, Midtown Manhattan, New York, US
Coordinates40°45′12″N 73°57′53″W / 40.753456°N 73.964838°W / 40.753456; -73.964838
DateApril 10, 1936
Attack type
Murder
WeaponCord
Deaths1
VictimsNancy Evans Titterton
PerpetratorsJohn Fiorenza

Nancy Violet Evans Titterton (1903 – April 10, 1936) was an American aspiring novelist and a wife of an NBC executive who was murdered in New York City in 1936. She was found strangled to death in her Manhattan apartment and the only clues were a single horse hair and a piece of cord. It was an early case solved due to forensic science.