12 minutes wife5/7/2023 ![]() The attacker used a razor-sharp nine-inch butcher knife, from a matched set in a drawer in the Greenbaum’s kitchen, to slit her throat, probably after hitting her on the head. A wound from her neck bled onto a section of a newspaper, a towel and pillow carefully placed under her by the killer to keep blood from dipping onto the carpet. Pillows were on the sides of her head, perhaps to stifle her cries. A severe blow from a blunt object – police surmised a heavy decorative glass bottle found beside Bess’s head – fractured her skull. She was fully dressed, shoes and all, her wrists bound behind her by a necktie (at first thought to have been one of Gus’s ties, but police considered it a cheap one with the label removed and not likely to Greenbaum’s tastes). “And, God, I just ran out of there and went to a neighbor’s.”īess’s lifeless body lay face down on a divan. “That’s when I opened the door of the den and saw on the couch,” Pearl said. While in the kitchen, she noticed that, oddly, some frozen food she removed the night before remained on the counter. Pearl returned to work at the Greenbaums’ shortly before noon the next day, December 3, using her key to get in. Greenbaum said his back was bothering him some. Greenbaum drove me home about 7:30 Tuesday evening,” Pearl said. Following treatment in a hospital, she provided her story to reporters. Pearl suffered from shock after discovering Bess’s body the next day. The viciousness of the beating and knifing deaths of Gus Greenbaum, 65, and Bess Greenbaum, 64, had the distinct appearance of a mob hit. Just who (one or more assailants) entered the Greenbaum home before Bess returned that night remains a mystery to this day. The roundtrip to Pearl’s place on 15th Avenue in Bess’s white 1957 Cadillac was only about four miles, perhaps 12 minutes of driving time. Monte Vista Road, across from the sprawling Encanto Park. After dropping off Pearl, Bess headed back to the large residence at 1115 W. COURTESY OF UNLV SPECIAL COLLECTIONSĪfter nightfall on December 2, 1958, Bess Greenbaum, wife of Las Vegas casino boss Gus Greenbaum, drove from their Phoenix house to take their housemaid, Pearl Ray, home after work, as usual. Moe Sedway, center, was Greenbaum’s fellow executive at the Flamingo Hotel. Gus Greenbaum, right, relaxes poolside in the late 1940s or early 1950s. ![]()
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