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Antone - In the Underground

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Antone Charles “Tony” Costa was a Cape Cod, Massachusetts carpenter that murdered at least 4 people in and around the town of Truro in  1969. The case gained international attention after district attorney Edmund Dinis claimed to the media that “the hearts of each girl had been removed from their bodies and were not in the graves...Each body was cut into as many parts as there are joints.” Dinis also said there were bite marks found on the bodies. These claims incited a stream of national and international media outlets to visit Provincetown, Massachusetts. The attention was so intense that author Kurt Vonnegut, whose daughter had met Costa, compared him to Jack the Ripper in his collection of essays ‘Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons’. Vonnegut continued to correspond with Costa, later saying: “The message of his letters to me was that a person as intent on being virtuous as he could not possibly have hurt a fly. He believed it.”

Costa was suspected in the murders of 7 women: Bonnie Williams, Diane Federoff, Barbara Spaulding, Sydney Monson, Susan Perry, Patricia Walsh, and Mary Anne Wysocki. He was only convicted of killing Walsh and Wysocki. On February 8, 1969, whilst looking for the bodies of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki, police discovered Susan Perry, who had been missing since the previous Labour Day. Her body had been cut into 8 pieces. When Wysocki’s body was found 1 month later, her torso and head had been buried separately. Not long afterwards, Walsh and the remainder of Wysocki’s bones were found in a forest clearing Costa had used to grow marijuana. Costa described the murders of Walsh and Wysocki in a novel he wrote in prison. In his own account, Costa and a friend named “Carl” were out with the two women taking LSD and Dilaudid. Carl shot Walsh and Wysocki. Costa claimed he managed to subdue his friend, and when he realised that Mary Anne Wysocki was still alive, Costa used a knife to end her suffering. According to Costa’s account, he and Carl buried the bodies. The novel, which was never published, also describes the deaths of Susan Perry and Sydney Monzon as being drug overdoses. Costa claims that it was Carl that dismembered and buried their bodies and he had no knowledge until after their deaths.