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Murder Of Roseann Quinn
Roseann M. Quinn (November 17, 1944 – January 2, 1973) was an American schoolteacher in New York City who was stabbed to death in 1973 by a man she had met at a bar. Her murder inspired Judith Rossner's best-selling 1975 novel ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar'', which was adapted into a 1977 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, and the television film, '' Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer'', released in 1983. Quinn's murder also inspired the 1977 account '' Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder'' by ''New York Times'' journalist Lacey Fosburgh. The case was the subject of a Season 3 episode 2 of Investigation Discovery's series ''A Crime to Remember'' in 2015 ("Last Night Stand"). Early life and education Quinn was born in 1944 in the Bronx, to Irish Americans John and Roseann Quinn. She had two brothers, John and Dennis, and a sister, Donna. When Quinn was 11 years old, her family moved to Mine Hill Township, near Dover, New Jersey; her fath ...
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Roseann Quinn
Roseann M. Quinn (November 17, 1944 – January 2, 1973) was an American schoolteacher in New York City who was stabbed to death in 1973 by a man she had met at a bar. Her murder inspired Judith Rossner's best-selling 1975 novel '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'', which was adapted into a 1977 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, and the television film, '' Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer'', released in 1983. Quinn's murder also inspired the 1977 account '' Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder'' by ''New York Times'' journalist Lacey Fosburgh. The case was the subject of a Season 3 episode 2 of Investigation Discovery's series '' A Crime to Remember'' in 2015 ("Last Night Stand"). Early life and education Quinn was born in 1944 in the Bronx, to Irish Americans John and Roseann Quinn. She had two brothers, John and Dennis, and a sister, Donna. When Quinn was 11 years old, her family moved to Mine Hill Township, near Dover, New Jersey; her ...
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