Oct 24, 2026 · 25 min · 12 segments
On Halloween night in 1957, in Sun Valley, Los Angeles, 35-year-old Peter Fabiano had already gone to bed. Then the doorbell rang.Peter went to answer it, expecting one last trick-or-treater…
Ellie MackHost
Peter Fabiano was born in around 1922 in Lansing, the state capital of Michigan, in the Midwest of the United States.
When he was a teenager in the mid-1930s, he moved around 2,000 miles west to Los Angeles.
during the second world war peter served in the united states marine corps in the mid nineteen fifties he married a woman named betty betty had been married before and had two children from that marriage a son richard and a daughter judy When Betty married Peter, he became stepfather to both of them.
Peter had worked as a bartender, but by 1957, he and Betty were running two beauty salons, which newspapers described as prosperous.
Reports at the time differ on exactly where the shops were, but at least one was in the San Fernando Valley, the wide, largely suburban stretch of Los Angeles that sits north of the Hollywood Hills.
peter worked as a beautician himself and he was the one who did betty's hair the family lived in a single-story house on community street in sun valley a residential neighborhood in the northeast of the valley around fourteen miles northwest of downtown los angeles By the autumn of 1957, Richard was 17 and serving in the United States Navy, while 15-year-old Judy lived at home with Peter and Betty.
Whether the relationship between Betty and Joan was ever more than a friendship has never been established.
What is documented is that Betty said the friendship was the reason she and Peter separated.
By the end of October 1957, Peter and Betty were back together, living with Judy in the house on Community Street and running their business side by side.
Pete was exhilarated about plans for an anniversary and Christmas party on the 21st of December.
Peter Fabiano was born in around 1922 in Lansing, the state capital of Michigan, in the Midwest of the United States.
When he was a teenager in the mid-1930s, he moved around 2,000 miles west to Los Angeles.
during the second world war peter served in the united states marine corps in the mid nineteen fifties he married a woman named betty betty had been married before and had two children from that marriage a son richard and a daughter judy When Betty married Peter, he became stepfather to both of them.
Peter had worked as a bartender, but by 1957, he and Betty were running two beauty salons, which newspapers described as prosperous.
Reports at the time differ on exactly where the shops were, but at least one was in the San Fernando Valley, the wide, largely suburban stretch of Los Angeles that sits north of the Hollywood Hills.
peter worked as a beautician himself and he was the one who did betty's hair the family lived in a single-story house on community street in sun valley a residential neighborhood in the northeast of the valley around fourteen miles northwest of downtown los angeles By the autumn of 1957, Richard was 17 and serving in the United States Navy, while 15-year-old Judy lived at home with Peter and Betty.
Whether the relationship between Betty and Joan was ever more than a friendship has never been established.
What is documented is that Betty said the friendship was the reason she and Peter separated.
By the end of October 1957, Peter and Betty were back together, living with Judy in the house on Community Street and running their business side by side.
Pete was exhilarated about plans for an anniversary and Christmas party on the 21st of December.
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