The Murder of innocent Lisa Steinberg
Lisa Steinberg , a first grader , was beaten and left to die in her home of Greenwich Village , NYC . This extravagant and sorrowful case was one of the most famous murder trials ever to exist in the 1980's.
November 5th , 1987 , the 6 year old child was found battered and unconsious at her home at 14 West 10th street in Greenwich Village .
How was she abused ?
She had cuts on both of her arms, legs, abdomen, stomach and head. Her feet and ankles were covered with a crust of black dirt and grime. Doctors discovered a severe, fresh bruise on her forehead. When they turned Lisa over on her belly, they found one large, unusual bruise near the center of her lower back. Her upper back was covered with both old and new bruises, red, black, and blue in color.
Who was involved ?
Joel Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter in the November 1, 1987 beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa"), whom he and his live-in partner Hedda Nussbaum had illegally adopted. Steinberg had reportedly been hired by a single mother named Michele Launders to locate a suitable adoptive family for Lisa, but he instead took the child home and raised her with Nussbaum. He never filed formal adoption papers and the child was not legally adopted.
Hedda Nussbaum (born 8 August 1942) is an American woman who was caretaker for a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987. The death of the girl, Lisa Steinberg, sparked a lengthy and controversial trial and media frenzy. The legal case was one of the first to be televised "gavel to gavel."[1] Supporters characterized Nussbaum as a victim of horrific domestic abuse at the hands of her live-in partner, Joel Steinberg.