Max and Ethel Kravitz lived at 1250 Knox Road in Wynnewood. On Friday, July 4, 1958, Max Kravitz’s brother-in-law, Morris Passon, reported that Max was shot, beaten and dead. By the next day, Ethel was confined in a Montgomery County jail cell, awaiting her hearing, on July 6.
Montgomery County District Attorney, Bernard DiJoseph gave his opening statement to the jury on December 3.
No photographs were permitted in the courtroom, which might not have been such a bad thing, as the Inquirer’s readers got see to the amazing sketch work by staff artist Freda Reiter.
The Ethel Kravitz Story was by no means over when she was convicted of second-degree murder on December 12, 1958.
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Bernard DiJoseph, the district attorney who prosecuted Ethel Kravitz, died of an apparent heart attack – April 12, 1960
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In July of 2023, 65 years after the murder of Max Kravitz, the New York Daily News, as part of its True Crime Justice Series, revisited the Ethel Kravitz Story.