


He would contact them with offers of work for pulp fiction magazines, take them back to his apartment, tie them up and sexually assault them, taking pictures all the while. Glatman moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1957 and started trolling modeling agencies looking for potential victims. During his imprisonment, he was diagnosed with " psychopathic personality - schizophrenic type having sexually perverted impulses as the basis of his criminality". Two years later, he was transferred to Sing Sing to serve out the rest of his sentence.

In August 1945, Glatman was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman, and was sentenced to 5–10 years in Elmira Reformatory. He was arrested for and pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in November 1945, but ultimately served only one month in jail. Over time, he escalated to stalking women and sexually assaulting them. His mother took him to the family physician, who said he "would grow out of it." Īs a teenager, he began breaking into women's apartments and stealing random items, including lingerie and, in one incident, a handgun. As a small child, he would tie a string around his penis and pull on it to achieve a sexual thrill when he was 12 years old, he developed the habit of placing a rope around his neck, running it through the bathtub drain, and pulling it tight against his neck. Born in the Bronx to a Jewish family and raised in Colorado, Glatman exhibited antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age.
