out of the cab to which he replied, "I'm her husband, don't worry about it." "Where do you want to go?" Pearlman asked. "Take me to a police station," Frances said. As the cab raced to the 23rd Precinct at Third and 104th, Rushmore shot Frances in the right side of the head and neck, then put the pistol to his temple and shot himself. At the police station, an unregistered .32 caliber Colt revolver was found in Rushmore's hand and a seven-inch commando knife inside the waistband of his trousers. Jean Dobbins speculated that her mother's refusal to take Rushmore to Brazil might have started the argument that ended in the shooting. Contrary to general expectations, Dobbins said her parents quarreled "over personal things, not Rushmore's controversial public life ... 'He was very possessive, very jealous, and wanted to go everywhere with her." Frances' father, Louis Everitt, the owner of a women's shoe store in Charlotte, brought his daughter's body back to North Carolina. A police search of the Rushmore apartment at 16 East 93rd Street revealed "a valuable gun collection ... along with an extensive collection of pornographic pictures." Dobbins was initially hesitant to claim her stepfather's body, though willing to do so if no blood-relation was willing; she did not want him to be buried in New York City's "potter's field." After Rushmore's body lay unclaimed at Bellevue for five days, his first wife Ruth, now a secretary, took custody. She held a private service at an undisclosed location, had the body cremated and sent the ashes back to be buried in Mexico, Missouri, "back to the 'dark and bloody ground.'" References 1913 births 1958 suicides American communists American families of English ancestry American film critics Methodists from Missouri American investigative journalists Deaths by firearm in Manhattan Journalists from New York City Murder–suicides in New York City New York (state) Republicans People from Mexico, Missouri People from Mitchell, South Dakota Suicides by firearm in New York City 20th-century American writers American anti-communists