On this day, Jan. 1, in 1973, a New York City schoolteacher picked up a man at a singles bar and was stabbed to death overnight, inspiring the cautionary tale, “Looking For Mr. Goodbar.” On New Year’s Day, 27-year-old Roseann Quinn met John Wayne Wilson, 23, at Tweed’s Bar across from her apartment on the Upper West Side.

At Quinn’s home that night, Wilson became incapable of sex. He picked up a knife, stabbed Quinn 18 times and raped her.

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