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One such fatality was 6 year old Lisa (Launders) Steinberg.

Lisa was the adopted daughter of Joel Steinberg (age 46) and Hedda Nessbaum (age 45), a well-educated, upper-class couple. By most accounts, Joel was a millionaire. He was a criminal defense attorney and she was an Associate Editor of children's books. They lived in a Greenwich Village apartment in New York City -- the same building in which Mark Twain once lived. In addition to Lisa, Joel and his common-law wife, Hedda, had adopted a boy, Mitchell. They seemed like the picture perfect family. That is, until they were arrested for child abuse.

(photo from Find a Grave, contributed by G. Michaels)