The official at Mount Hope Cemetery, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, was emphatic: no one under the name Vivian Gordon was buried there—not in February 1931, when she died, nor at any other time.
That news was surprising to me, because it was clear from news accounts of the time that Gordon, an infamous New York City sexual extortionist who had been murdered during Prohibition, was buried, shortly after her demise, at this cemetery. There were even old news photos to prove it.
