On this day, Aug. 28, in 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were killed in their Manhattan apartment in a crime dubbed the “Career Girls Murders.” The crime got the name because Hoffert and Wylie were two of the thousands of young women who had come to New York each year to seek jobs. Wylie, 21, a Newsweek researcher, and Emily Hoffert, a teacher, had been stabbed 60 times each.

The slayings led to the arrest of an innocent man, George Whitmore Jr., who was jailed for 1,216 days for the murders of the roommates and other women.

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The wrongful arrest was cited as an example that led the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the Miranda rights guidelines, and was the basis for the TV crime drama “Kojak.”