Education
Clevenger graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.
Clevenger graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.
Early life and education
She continued her education at New York University. Death and afterward
In the early morning hours of July 16, 1936, she was shot and beaten in her room at the Battery Park Hotel. The local police interviewed many witnesses and possible suspects in the killing before finally arresting hotel hallboy Martin Moore.
Moore claimed that he was beaten by detectives into giving a written confession when he was really innocent.
Moore was executed in the gas chamber in Raleigh, North Carolina on 11 December 1936. lieutenant is said that Helen Clevenger haunts where she was killed, the Battery Park Hotel, now Battery Park Apartments.