NYC abortion tragedy: sawbones flees to cottage near Montreal

  Women who wanted to terminate a pregnancy would likely have had this conversation back in the day. "Doctor what happens if there are complications?" "Well if you die, then I'll chop up your body, attempt to dispose of it and flee town to my cottage north of Montreal."

Lofrumento

   That might seem insane but in the days before legal abortion these things really happened.
  We've discussed good old Jack Seligman of the Fairmount Bakery that ended up dumping a woman's body into an alleyway after a botched abortion.
   But in 1962 New York City physician Dr. Harvey Lothringer provided an abortion to Barbara Lofrumento that went wrong and ended in her death.        So he chopped up her body and flushed it down the toilet and fled to his hunting cottage north of Montreal. Meanwhile a plumber was called in to unclog the drain and found the poor victim's body all chopped up down there.
   Lothringer was eventually tracked down in the Caribbean and served four years in prison. He was eventually even reinstated and involved in a controversial prison death, in which a woman committed suicide after he took her off her medication.