Articles Book III - Pg 1-117 (Adoptees) - triadoption

ig111 front window of tllc car as
Donna cvas opcni~l the door to stcp
out and go insillc P icr honlc.
I3allistics found tliat tllc murdcr
weapon was R .qq-calibcr rcvolvcr.
'i'his inlortllation was not rclcascd.
Somebody said that Donna had
l~nd a fight with tier boy fricntl, who
was now in Ncw hfcxico. Dcrcctivcs
flcw to New Mcxico, whcrc, invcstiation
rcvcalcd, a .44 rcvolvcr had
ffccn bought rcccnrly, by anotl~cr
rnan. And this sccond man oncc had
livcd only six blocks from the 13ronx
strcct whcrc Donna was killcd.
Thc ~~icces tvcrc falling into placc.
But one
P
cssimistic dctcctivc conrmct~tccl,
' If it's not ourguy, then it's
a ~>sycho and wc'rc in a lot td trou.
hle."(A psychopath, killing at whim,
brcaks thc police pattcrn of looking
. for tnotivc.)
At thc rcqucst of thc New York
: Policc Department, the statc policc
in Ncw Mcxico scarcl1cd for thc . 4
Thcy found it. Tllcy tcst-fired it. T 1"' c
bullcts did not nlatcli thc Donna
huria bullcts.
. l'licrc was bad language in the
squad room.And cvonc wastocomc.
-N,m I*& *
TRS. DIGFS7'
No~umhrr,.,,
killcr hacl nlistakcn Dcnaro, who had
sl~ol~lder-length hair, for I wo~rtacl.
I Saturday, Novcmbcr 27, tllc killer
struck again. jmmn*c.Lotrlino, 18,
and a iricnd, l&~~nqDiM;~ri, 17,
wcrc sitting on ]oartnc's front porch
whcn a ntan walked o and asked
for directions. 'l'hcn 1 tc p~~llctl a
gun fronl undcr his coat and ol>cnctl
fire.
Miss Lotniao was struck in tllc
back of the 11ead and is now paralyzcd.
Donna was woundcd in tlic
ncck. Policc picked up thrcc 44.
calibcr $llcll casings at thc sccnc.
Two months wcnt by bcforc thc
ncxt attack, and this timc thc killcr's
aim wn deadly. Cl~ristincFrcund, a
26-ycar-old sccrctary, was shot to
dcatliat 12:30a.m., January 30,1977,
as shc sat with hcr fiancC in a car
parked in Forest Hills, (Juccns. (He
war unliurt.) 'Sllcn, just half n block
from thcrc-and'fivc wccks lstcr, on
Mardl Bat about 7:jop.m.-Vir inla
Voskcrichian, a rg-ycar-old Co f umbia
University studcnt, was shot at
closc rangc and killcd as slie walkcd
on I)artn~oulh Strcct.
Tbc juxtaposition of the two killings
sccmcd too muclt to bc a co-
incidence. Two days later, as fcar,
~l~~~x~~~~~c~,~itll~noticcdat
thc ripped thc Forcst 1-lills neighbor- '-'
tinlc, was a virtual rcplay of tl~c food, Ncw York Mayor Abraham
Lauria killing. At z:3oa.n1. on Octo- ncatnc and City Police Conlrnissionbcr
23, C&r!.Qc?%, 20, and Me- cr Michael 1. Codd callcd a joint
tilary...Kccnan, -- 21, wcrc sitting in new confcrcncc to annouricc tller
pxkcd wron '160th Strcct in Flush- tl~c sarrrc .dq-caliber rcvolvcr ha
ing, Quccns. Ilcnaro was shot in the killcd three young woracn and thc
back of thc bead, but survivcd. Miss lonc gunman was srill at large.
Kccnan was uninjurcd. Policc lntcr The oficials appcalccl for public
tl~corizcd tliat in thc darkness the I~clp, arld mail and rclcphonc tips
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