Wealthy socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland attempted to "cure" her gay son by getting him to sleep with her, then Antony Baekeland stabbed her to death on November 17, 1972.
All That's Interesting | 29.06.2026 01:00
In the 1940s, Barbara Daly Baekeland had it all. She was married to the attractive and charming Brooks Baekeland, whose grandfather was chemist Leo Baekeland, the inventor of the early plastic Bakelite. She was a prominent socialite, she had been called one of New York’s ten most beautiful girls, and modeled for esteemed magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
