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Leo Damore | Criminal Biography and Murder Mystery

In His Garden by Leo Damore

In His Garden by Leo Damore

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A Cape Cod True Crime Classic of Antone Costa, Truro Serial Murders, and 1960s Counterculture

In early 1969, police investigating missing young women in Truro, Massachusetts, uncovered a shallow grave site in a pine grove on Cape Cod. The victims—Patricia Walsh, Mary Ann Wysocki, Sydney Monzon, and Susan Perry—had been dismembered and buried by Antone "Tony" Costa, a local handyman and counterculture figure who maintained a garden on the property.

Journalist Leo Damore reconstructs the multi-town police search, the forensic identification of the remains, and the psychological evaluation of Costa during his 1970 trial. The narrative explores 1960s drug culture in Provincetown and the media frenzy surrounding the "Cape Cod Vampire" murders.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Leo Damore delivers a landmark study of regional New England true crime and serial murder. Featuring local police procedures, trial testimony, and psychological profiling, this book is essential reading for fans of Jack Olsen, Norman Mailer, and Vincent Bugliosi.

Edition & Specifications

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 605

Format: Mass market paperback

Publication Date: 1982

ISBN: 9780425057070

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