Everyone, as a child, has had some fear.Sometimes it was a monster in our closet or a ghost hanging from the ceiling lamp.Even, sometimes, it was the parents who invented those terrifying figures with the only aim to keep children a little naughty at bay.Unfortunately, there are times when reality surpasses fiction and what seemed so harmless and fanciful, ends up being flesh and blood, to everyone's horror. man in the royal coat has a name and is called Cropsey.
If we were in Staten Island (New York), in the mid-twentieth century, we will realize that it was a pretty scary place to young children. The urban legend tells the story of Cropsey, a serial killer whose goal was young boys and girls .As is often the case with urban legends, there are many versions of the same story.Read on to know where they match and what happened to this man from real sack.
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Cropsey, the man in the royal sack, and Willowbrook
Most versions of the man in the royal coat often disagree with Cropsey's way of killing; sometimes he appeared with a sharp ax, sometimes he wore a hook in the hand and, on other occasions, it turned out to be the caretaker of a camp and had the body covered with unpleasant scars.
Although there are numerous versions, there is a characteristic that is repeated in all of them and it is its origin: the Willowbrook State School institution.
The Willowbrook State School institution opened in 1947 and sheltered children with intellectual or physical disabilities.Soon it overflowed, because although initially it could to house about 4000 children, I have, in 1965, with more than 6000.
For this excess of patients, the state of those who should receive care from the institution was deplorable: they lived in misery and even suffered from infectious diseases such as hepatitis, for which they received no treatment.To make matters worse, experiments were allowed with them.
Robert Kennedy visited the institution and was so impressed that the I call "a snake pit" .Not surprisingly, it was a place where patients had less personal space than prisoners in prisons.Affected by it, they even drafted an improvement plan but failed to change anything.
Willowbrook remained open beyond the 80s, but c It was definitely missing its doors in 1987.This institution never enjoyed a good reputation among the inhabitants of Staten Island.But in reality the institution, while guilty of negligence, had nothing to do with the stories of authentic terror that were woven around it.It is believed that the culprit of these horrors was related to Willowbrook, but he was a man who acted on his own. The man in the royal coat, Cropsey , was called Andre Rand and was one of the employees of the institution.
The man, the monster
As we said, the man in the royal coat has a name and is Andre Rand, the concierge at Willowbrook. Rand felt so attached to the institution that he even went camping in the surrounding forests, to stay close to her.
In 1969 he was arrested for assaulting a girl and was imprisoned for 11 more cases of kidnapping.I get to serve his sentence, but that didn't stop him, once released, keep climbing in his atrocities.The disappearance of 12-year-old Jennifer Schweiger was reported on July 9, and a witness claimed to have seen Rand taking Schweiger away from his house, holding hands.Given these testimonies, Rand finally confessed to having taken her.35 days after Jennifer's disappearance was reported, her body was buried shallowly in Willowbrook's grounds.
Punishment was never received for Schweiger's murder for lack of evidence, but if He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his kidnapping.It was believed that Jennifer's case was not the only one and that surely the man in the royal coat was responsible for other disappearances; Alice Pereia, 5, disappeared in 1972 from the lobby of her family's apartment building, where Rand was currently working as a painter.Holly Ann Hughes was also kidnapped in a similar way, although in her case, some witnesses claimed to have seen Rand with the girl in her car.Similarly, Tiahease Jackson, 11, and Henry Gafforio, 21, disappeared shortly after being seen with Rand or a man who matched his description.
Of all these disappearances, Only the case of Jennifer Schweiger was closed because the body was found.Even so, in 2004, Rand the man in the royal coat, was sentenced to another 25 years in prison for kidnapping those children.Until 2037 it will not be possible for the man of real disgust enjoy probation.Although there is really no certainty that Rand murdered all those children, it is worth saying that the signs are so clear that it is worthwhile to take away the so-called man from the royal sack of the streets for a good season.Don't you think?
What do you think of the story of the man in the royal sack? Do you think the nickname is right? Tell us what fears you had as a child, monsters, spirits, the man in the coat...? Undoubtedly, sometimes, reality surpasses our worst nightmares in cruelty.If you know more similar stories, write us a comment and we will try to investigate those cases that frighten you and sound pure fiction because of the restlessness that removes us from within knowing of them.
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