ITV/Shutterstock The Marcus Twins Were Gynecologists to New York’s Elite. No One Knows What Killed Them. Two brothers, fertility specialists and barbiturate addicts, were found dead in a filthy Park Avenue apartment. Every theory about how they got there is a scandal. By Ron Rosenbaum and Susan Edmiston Apr 13, 2021 Read every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. It was the striped shorts that caused the mix-up at the morgue. When the cops and the maintenance man broke into apartment 10H, slogged their way through the debris covering the living-room floor and found the bodies in the bedroom, they found themselves with an identity problem as well. The maintenance man was certain the bodies in question were gynecologist Cyril Marcus—the tenant of 10H—and his twin brother, gynecologist Stewart Marcus, but he wasn’t certain which body belonged to which twin.