The Babysitter
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Enos’s road trip to San Francisco with, 99–100
as fastidiously neat, 25, 37, 64, 128, 163, 173, 187
fidgeting, nail biting, and scratching of, 36, 122, 136–37, 225
fixation on dead father of, 5–6, 19, 20, 63, 131, 262
friendly and polite facade of, 2, 3, 8, 15, 71, 72, 92, 122, 140, 163, 170, 224, 228, 240, 252, 293
Goldman as defense attorney for, see Goldman, Maurice
increasingly perverse sex acts of, 26–27, 28
intelligence of, 7–8, 71, 72, 244, 285, 291
killing and disemboweling of animals by, 7
letters written by, 100, 102, 153–54, 240, 279, 291
Liza on errand runs with, 3, 4, 60–65, 91, 92–94, 127–29, 135, 136–37, 143, 258
Liza’s first meeting with, 49–51
Liza’s recurrent nightmares of, 1–3, 4, 299–300
Liza’s visits to Truro woods with, 4, 129–32, 143–44, 258, 300
long walks and nighttime strolls of, 18, 35, 38, 70, 87, 96, 145, 163
money troubles of, 19–20, 45, 53–54, 73, 83, 99, 243, 252
monikers given to, 4, 71, 73, 75, 242, 252
mother’s death and, 277
near-overdose of, 102
nonpayment of spousal and child support by, 102, 103, 107, 153, 202
as non-typical serial killer, 303, 304
odd behavior of, 95, 97, 110–11, 175
odd speaking style of, 227, 261
paranoia of, 109, 123
partial confessions of, 164, 268, 269–72, 292, 293
physical ailments of, 36, 73, 74, 84–85
physical appearance of, 15, 43, 50, 51, 60, 122, 163–64, 224, 261, 303
at Pine Grove Cemetery, 64, 135–36, 144, 179
polygraph tests of, 179, 267–70, 281
possible causes of psychosis in, 303–5
psychiatric evaluations of, 179, 243, 244–45, 260–63, 267, 271–72, 281, 294
public support for, 239–41, 282, 291
religion and, 8–9, 121–22, 134, 145, 164, 181, 261, 291, 293
Royal Coachman jobs of, 53, 59, 60, 62, 84, 85, 92–93, 95, 127, 135, 142, 162, 175
in San Francisco, 100–103
schooling of, 7–8, 15
“secret garden” of, 84, 87, 130–32, 143–44, 170–71, 180, 185
sexual abuse suffered by, 8, 294, 295, 304
sexual assaults and attempted rapes committed by, 9, 54, 304
sexual intercourse with wife and girlfriends resisted by, 28, 54, 83, 96, 133
as “sexually dangerous person,” 263, 294, 295
sexual violation of dead bodies by, 181, 271, 272, 293
as “snitch” for police, 108–9, 111, 123, 154, 202
sporadic employment and jobs held by, 20, 35, 38, 53, 59, 60, 62, 83, 84, 85, 87, 95, 96–97, 99, 107, 111, 122, 123, 127, 133, 145, 161–62, 170, 175, 223, 240, 252, 284
Standish Street room of, 170, 171, 172, 173, 183, 184, 216, 217, 223
Susan Perry and, see Perry, Susan
Sydney Monzon and, see Monzon, Sydney
taxidermy kit of, 7, 27, 46
.22 caliber revolver of, 123, 134, 146, 180, 182, 259
vanity and self-aggrandizing of, 15, 54, 71, 75, 84, 134, 224, 227, 279, 285, 291
victim burial sites of, 170–71, 180, 185–87, 210–12, 281–82, 300
violent and disturbing thoughts of, 19, 54, 84, 133, 164, 303
voices heard by, 109, 145, 304
volatile mood swings and emotional outbursts of, 18–19, 35, 37, 54, 96, 97, 122, 164, 181, 252, 260, 277, 304
as voracious reader, 54, 71, 84, 303
in Walpole Prison, 9, 286, 287, 291, 293–95
Walsh’s VW kept by, 199, 201, 224–25, 227, 244, 281, 285
Walsh/Wysocki murders and, see Walsh/Wysocki murder case
young followers of, 8, 16, 35, 71–72, 75, 83, 84, 87–88, 95–96, 122, 123, 133, 134, 147, 154, 162, 163, 171, 199, 230, 241, 259, 284, 300
Costa, Antone Fonseca, 5–6, 9, 49, 63, 251, 262
Costa, Avis Lou Johnson, 8, 16–19, 25–28, 35, 36–37, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 64, 83, 85, 88, 93, 95, 96–97, 100, 101, 108, 122–23, 136, 154, 155–56, 161, 162, 163, 169, 173, 182, 187, 239, 242, 253, 258, 262, 277, 306 Allen’s invasive interviews of, 253–54
apartment of, 37, 229
chloral hydrate overdose of, 27–28, 102, 283–84
courtroom testimony of, 282–84
divorce from Tony of, 99–100, 102–3
father’s death and, 53
fear and anxiety of, 19, 27, 37, 283
Goldman’s interview of, 251–52
police interviews of, 229
pregnancies of, 18, 27, 73
Shank Painter Road cottage of, 95, 96, 109, 121, 240
suspicions of, 240–41
Tony’s dating of, 16, 17–18, 84
Tony’s increasingly perverse sexual demands on, 26–27, 28, 253, 304
Tony’s letters to, 100, 102, 153–54, 240
Tony’s nonpayment of support for, 102, 103, 107, 153, 202
Tony’s sex life with, 28, 54, 83, 96
Tony’s verbal and physical abuse of, 19, 25, 37, 54, 96, 99, 153, 241, 252
Tony’s volatile marriage to, 18–19, 20, 25–26, 36, 37–38, 53–54, 73, 83, 95, 97, 99, 102–3, 252
Tony’s wedding to, 18, 123
Costa, Michael, 28, 45, 64, 87, 95, 97, 121, 136, 153, 162, 163, 182, 229, 234, 242, 252, 258, 291
Costa, Nichole, 83, 87, 95, 97, 121, 136, 153, 162, 163, 182, 229, 252, 258, 291
Costa, Peter, 18, 19, 25, 45, 64, 87, 95, 97, 102, 121, 136, 148, 153, 162, 163, 182, 187, 229, 252, 258, 291
Craig, Horace, 194, 199
“Croakie” (Sandy; young local), 122, 123
Crown & Anchor Inn, 111, 112, 122, 162, 256
D
Dairy Land, 61, 63
Dedham, Mass., 123, 140, 145
DeSalvo, Albert, 252, 295
Devereaux, Cory, 8, 88, 123, 134, 259–60, 268, 269, 293, 305
Dinis, Edmund, 241–42, 283–84, 286
Doeringer, Jon, 154, 155, 161
Donna (Tony’s young neighbor), 9, 304
Dreyer, Brenda, 173, 174
drugs, 45, 47, 84, 85, 97, 110, 112, 113, 122, 139, 146, 154, 162, 163, 171, 174, 179, 182, 186–87, 194, 224, 241, 252, 283, 293, 301, 307 in Provincetown, 18, 44, 70, 74–75, 83, 107–8, 109, 123, 198
Tony’s dealing of, 74–75, 95–96, 107, 111, 123, 133, 262
in Tony’s defense strategy, 271–72, 278, 284, 285, 291
see also specific drugs
Duarte, Leo, 8, 18, 107, 148, 277
Duke (Chihuahua), 117, 119, 235
E
Eastham, Mass., 113
Enos, Ronnie, 99–100, 101
Ewalt, Jack, 271–72, 294
F
Fallon, James, 303
Fall River, Mass., 85–86, 139, 161
Falmouth Hospital, 297
FBI, Behavioral Science Unit of, 270
Federoff, Diane, 43, 44–47, 305–6 on cross-country road trip with Tony, 43–44, 45–47, 50, 53, 306
death of, 306, 308
disappearance of, 47, 48, 267, 305
Fernandes, Armand, 279, 282, 285, 286, 300
Fish Cleaners, The (Hawthorne), 239
5 Standish Street Guest House (Provincetown), 169–70, 171, 172, 173, 174, 183, 185, 202, 223, 224, 242 Turbidy and Magnan’s search of, 215–17
Flynn, Bernie, 208, 211, 212, 215, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232–33, 234, 239–40, 259–60, 286 interviews with Tony of, 224–25, 226–27
Fo’csle Tavern, 44–45, 54, 173, 174, 202
forensic tests, 226
Frank, Gerold, 252, 295
Frank (Bayberry Bend Motel manager), 255–57, 265, 273, 275, 287–88
G
Gallant, Christine, 85–86, 96, 162, 293 funeral of, 161
last days of, 154–56, 157
suspicious death of, 156
–57, 164, 268
Tony’s first sightings of, 85, 86
Tony’s relationship with, 139, 153, 154–55, 157
Gaspar, Frank, 6–7
Goldman, Maurice, 243–44, 251–54, 259–61, 267, 271, 281, 286, 291, 293, 294 book deal payment strategy of, 252–54, 268
drug addiction as defense strategy of, 271–72, 278, 284, 285
in fruitless search for other suspects, 240, 244, 259–60
“guilty but insane” defense of, 260, 263, 267, 272, 278, 285
hypnosis sessions ordered by, 278, 281
lavish spending by defense team of, 254
polygraphs ordered by, 267–70, 281
on Tony’s death, 294–95
Tony’s family interviewed by, 251–52
Tony’s guilt assumed by, 244, 262, 278
Tony’s interviews with, 244, 260–61
in trial, 282–83, 284, 285
Groth, Nicholas, 295
Gunnery, Edgar Thomas, 140, 210–11, 212, 215, 226, 230, 231–33, 234, 252
H
Hansen, Chuck, 240, 244, 259
Hare, Irene, 173, 174
Harwich, Mass., 89, 92
Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 67, 239
Hearst, Patricia, 47, 267
heroin, 54, 101, 102, 123
Hiebert, Daniel, 8, 28, 73–74, 88, 100, 112, 211–12, 230, 232, 240, 283
Highland Lighthouse, 181, 182
Hoernig, Paula, 154, 187
Holly Berry (Louisa’s dog), 105, 147, 189
homosexuality, 18, 69, 87, 107, 110, 173, 198, 201, 255, 256, 259, 273–74
Hyannis, Mass., 29, 96, 142, 154, 155, 159, 179, 228, 241, 277
hypnosis, 278, 281
I
In Cold Blood (Capote), 291
J
Jekyll Island, Ga., 77–78
John’s Footlong, 69, 93
Johnson, Marian, 16, 17, 18, 74
Joseph, Alice, 71–72, 133, 245
Joseph, Davy, 145–46
Juicy Fruit, 16, 71, 91
K
Kama Sutra, 26
Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery, 36
Kennedy, John F., 193, 271
Killen, George, 199–200, 208, 210, 211, 212, 227–28, 230, 231, 232, 233, 242, 286
Kingston, Mass., 177
L
Librium, 102
Lipman, Stephen, 278, 295
Lobster Pot, 16, 93
Lorna Doones, 35, 64, 85, 293
LSD, 44, 54, 70, 74, 83, 102, 107, 108, 139, 156, 179, 184, 185, 186
lupus, 17
M
McLean Hospital, 261–62
MacMillan Wharf, 68, 274, 306
Magnan, Gerry, 211–12, 215–17, 232
marijuana, 54, 74, 107, 108, 122, 155, 161, 200 Tony’s growing of, 84, 87, 185
Marshall, Francis “Cheney,” 8, 107–8, 199–200, 202, 210, 230, 231, 232, 277
Massachusetts State Police, 194, 199, 200, 208, 210, 233, 234
Matta, Raul, 85, 86, 96, 155, 156, 157
Mayflower Café, 108, 173
Meads, James “Jimmy,” 108, 154, 202–3, 217, 223–24, 225, 230
meprobamate, 37, 73
methamphetamines, 102
Middleborough, Mass., 105
missing persons, 225, 308 as not taken seriously in 1960s, 47, 202, 213, 301
missing persons reports, 113, 194, 199, 308
Molly Malone Cook’s East End Bookshop, 26, 86
Monzon, Linda, 110, 111, 112–13, 122
Monzon, Sydney, 109–11, 269, 277 disappearance of, 113, 122, 125–26
identified body of, 245
last known sighting of, 112–13
murder of, 268–69, 272, 281, 284, 292
Tony last seen with, 113, 122, 271
Tony’s first meeting of, 109, 110
Tony’s relationship with, 110–11, 122
morphine, 123
Morton, Patricia, 169–70, 171, 172–73, 174, 183, 202, 215–16
Mowery, Marsha, 87–88, 230
N
Nembutal, 145, 155, 157, 185
New Bedford, Mass., 241
New Bedford Police, 208
Newton, Mass., 160
New York, N.Y., 96–97, 99, 139, 156 Christine Gallant’s last days in, 154–56, 157
New York Times, 252
Noonan, Grampa Georgie, 29, 30–32, 33, 39, 49–50, 55, 60, 63, 106, 115, 131, 160, 165, 177, 248, 273, 274 drinking by, 30, 31, 165–66, 177
sudden move of, 165, 166, 177
Noonan, Nana, 13, 30, 31, 55, 165, 166, 177, 189, 190, 248
Norfolk prison, 294
Norton, Russell, 179, 201–2
Nunes, Roger, 162, 175
O
Olsen, Peter, 294, 295
P
Pearce, Mary Vivian, 87
Penney Patch, 91, 125, 235
Perry, Albert, 72
Perry, Edward, 194, 199, 200
Perry, Susan, 72, 145–46, 154, 186, 187, 260, 271 disappearance of, 146, 153, 213
grisly disposal of, 284, 292–93
identified body of, 245
last known sighting of, 139–40
missing person report filed for, 213
murder of, 268–69, 281, 284, 292
Tony’s relationship with, 72, 134, 139–40
troubled background of, 72, 133–34
Pied Piper, 273–74
Piggy’s, 70, 273
Pilgrim Club, 109, 110, 112, 116, 174, 273
Pine Grove Cemetery, 17, 64, 135–36, 144, 179, 197
polygraph tests, 179, 267–70, 281
Popsicles, 64, 127, 128, 131, 300
Primotivo Africa, 155
Providence, R.I., 172, 173, 193, 194, 199, 200, 201, 226
Provincetown, Mass.: artistic and bohemian culture in, 18, 67–68, 69–70, 74, 87, 107, 115, 173, 209
“the Benches” in, 70, 84, 109, 115, 122, 242
dark underside of, 18, 44, 68
drug scene in, 18, 44, 70, 74–75, 83, 107–8, 109, 123, 198
5 Standish Street Guest House in, 169–70, 171, 172, 173, 174, 183, 185, 202, 215–17, 223, 224, 242
gay scene in, 18, 69, 70, 74, 87, 107, 115, 173, 256, 273–74
harsh winters in, 18, 99, 209, 251
hippies in, 18, 69, 74, 83, 107–8, 115, 198, 239
history of, 67–68, 74
immigrant population in, 15, 67, 68
public support for Tony and stonewalling of police in, 239–41, 282, 291
Tony’s childhood summers in, 6–7, 8
Tony’s long walks in, 18, 35, 38, 70, 87, 96, 145, 163
Tony’s move to, 9–10
tourist season in, 68–69, 83, 110, 115, 145
Von Utter drug bust in, 108–9, 110, 111, 123, 154, 202
Walsh/Wysocki murder case in, see Walsh/Wysocki murder case
Provincetown Advocate, 35
Provincetown Banner, 125–26
Provincetown Division of Child Guardianship, 153
Psychopath Inside, The (Fallon), 303
R
Raboy, David, 95, 121, 240
Race Point Beach, 65
“Resurrection” (Costa; draft novel), 179–80, 291–93
Rhode Island College, 95, 172, 201–2
Rivers, Johnny, 62
Rodman, Liza, 89–94, 105–6, 115–19, 141–44, 147–51, 235–37, 265–66, 273–76, 287–89 in adult conversations with mother, 2–4, 297–99, 300, 301
birth of, 11, 22, 23
in car accident, 57
Cecelia’s warm relationship with, 33, 49, 51, 205–6, 265
eczema of, 23, 29–30, 61, 81, 136, 149, 205, 287
on errand runs with Tony, 3, 4, 60–65, 91, 92–94, 127–29, 135, 136–37, 143, 258
Frank’s cruel prank on, 287–88
at grandparents’ funeral home, 40–42, 136
as helping out at motels, 49, 51, 118–19, 125, 126, 205, 266, 275, 276
Louisa’s preferential treatme
nt and, 61, 150–51, 177, 189–91
mother feared by, 2, 14, 126, 142, 298, 301
motherhood of, 297, 298
mother’s boyfriends and, 55, 56, 77, 78, 81, 89–90, 91, 116, 159–60, 167–68, 177, 274, 275–76
mother’s car rides with, 21–22, 77–78, 80, 81, 89–90, 91, 149, 165–66, 248–49
mother’s unloving and resentful attitude toward, 14, 23, 49, 78, 81, 150–51, 190, 249, 299
near-drowning of, 90
news and gossip on murder cases overheard by, 3, 220–21, 235, 257–58, 265, 287
in 1967 trip to Jekyll Island, 77–78, 79–81
parents’ divorce and, 11–13, 39, 63
physical appearance of, 23, 61, 92
recurrent nightmares of, 1–3, 4, 299–300
and revelations of Tony being serial killer, 2–4, 300
schooling of, 89, 105, 147, 160
self-loathing of, 78–79, 299, 301
sexual explorations of, 78–80, 81
on single tender memory of mother, 150–51
Sydney’s disappearance and, 125–26
Tex as childhood boyfriend of, 166–67, 168, 205, 248
Tony’s first meeting of, 49–51
Tony’s kindness toward, 2, 3, 60, 63–64, 92, 132
Tony’s trip to Pine Grove Cemetery with, 64, 135–36, 144
Tony’s visits to Truro woods with, 4, 129–32, 143–44, 258, 300
unconventional babysitters for, 2, 57, 90, 116–17, 255–57, 273
verbal and physical abuse of, 13–14, 21, 23, 30, 31, 80–81, 119, 150, 151, 190, 236, 274, 275, 298, 299, 301
writing by, 247–49
at YMCA camp, 247–48, 265
Rose, Joe, 41–42, 136
Royal Coachman Motel, 3, 32–33, 49, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 72, 81, 89, 91, 105, 115, 125, 127, 129, 132, 134, 171, 173, 174, 219, 235, 265, 300 Tony’s jobs at, 53, 59, 60, 62, 84, 85, 92–93, 95, 127, 135, 142, 162, 175