Chapter 61
1 ITrial transcript, Commonwealth vs. Antone C. Costa, May 14, 1970.
2 IAvis Costa, interview conducted by Lester Allen Sr., July 25, 1969.
3 Ibid.
4 ITrial transcript, May 1970.
5 IAvis Costa, interview conducted by Lester Allen Sr., April 24, 1969.
6 IMaurice Goldman, pretrial notes, April 1970.
7 IVinnie Bonaviri, interview conducted by Detective Lieutenant Inspector Richard J. Cass, March 7, 1969.
8 IVincent J. Bonaviri, trial transcript, May 20, 1970.
9 ILeo Damore, author’s notes for In His Garden, 1980.
10 Evelyn Lawson, Sturgis Library Theater archives, 1908–1984, “Deadly Charm,” notes for an unpublished manuscript, 1969.
Chapter 63
1 ITony Costa, correspondence with Maurice Goldman, December 28, 1970.
2 IAntone C. Costa, “Resurrection,” unpublished manuscript, 1970.
3 Leo Damore, interview conducted by Craig Little, “Book Reopens Costa Murder Case,” Provincetown Advocate, July 1981.
4 Evelyn Lawson, Sturgis Library Theater archives, 1908–1984, “Deadly Charm,” notes for an unpublished manuscript, 1969.
5 IWalpole Prison Archives, Antone C. Costa records, 1970–1974.
6 ITony Costa, jailhouse diary, March 1969.
7 Ibid.
8 Donna Candish, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan, May 2020.
9 IDr. A. Nicholas Groth, correspondence with Leo Damore, June 6, 1981.
Epilogue
1 Dr. James Fallon, interviews conducted by and email communication with Jennifer Jordan and Liza Rodman, April–June 2019.
2 Bessel van der Kolk, MD, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), page 24.
3 Michele Rosenthal, “The Science Behind PTSD Symptoms: How Trauma Changes the Brain,” PsychCentral.com, June 27, 2018.
4 ITony Costa, interview conducted by Lester Allen Sr., June 2, 1969.
5 ITony Costa, jailhouse diary, April 1969.
6 Denise Williams Carson and Kris Blaylock, interviews conducted by Jennifer Jordan, May 19 and May 25, 2020.
7 Denise Williams Carson, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan, May 19, 2020.
8 Celeste Cornwell Dawson and Claudia Federoff Musgrove, interviews conducted by Jennifer Jordan, August 2019 and May 2020.
9 Claudia Federoff Musgrove, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan, May 2020.
10 Ibid.
11 Grita Perry, email communication with Jennifer Jordan, May 2020.
12 Athena Martinez, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan, August 2019.
13 Ibid.
14 Grace E. Dickey, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan, August 2019.
15 Stephen Lipman, interview conducted by Jennifer Jordan and Liza Rodman, September 2018.
16 Denise Williams Carson, email communication with Jennifer Jordan, May 20, 2020.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
1 Avis L Johnson, Facebook post, June 4, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/avisljohnson.161/posts/10158345889213805.
I. Leo Damore papers, Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
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INDEX
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A
A&P, 112, 113, 117, 126, 173
abortion, 86, 217, 223
acid, 44, 54, 70, 74, 83, 102, 107, 108, 139, 156, 179, 184, 185, 186
Adams Pharmacy, 35–36, 85, 86, 96, 202, 293
Al (The “Candy Man,” Boston lawyer), 89–90, 116
Allen, Lester, 253–54, 261, 271, 272, 279, 283
amphetamines, 43, 54, 74, 100, 295
Anthony, Bob, 35, 110
Atwood, Billy, 219–21, 257
Atwood, John, 105, 162, 175
autopsies, 226, 260, 277
Aventyl, 73
B
Baden, Michael, 156, 157
barbiturates, 74, 139, 156, 271
Barnstable County House of Correction, 53, 234, 239, 245, 268, 277, 278–79
Bayberry Bend Motel and Cottages, 115–16, 117–19, 125, 126, 127, 142, 149, 159, 160, 205, 249, 255, 265, 266, 273, 275, 276, 287, 288–89
Beaudreau, Robert H., 281, 285–86
Becker, “Auntie” Joan, 13, 21, 29, 32, 33, 42, 51, 56, 59, 60, 62, 77–78, 79, 81, 84, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 142, 143, 147, 265, 273–74
Becker, Gail, 32, 78, 91, 93, 94, 125, 219, 235, 287, 300
Becker, Geoff, 32, 78, 79, 80, 91, 92, 93, 94, 125, 219, 235, 247, 287
Becker, Hank, 21, 29, 32, 33, 56, 93, 105, 247
Bee-Hive Tavern, 298, 299
Benson, Carl, 197–98, 207
Berrio, Harold, 198–99, 203, 207, 208, 210
Betty, 21–23, 29, 30, 32, 40, 59–60, 61, 62, 65, 79, 91, 92–93, 94, 105, 117, 125, 127, 130, 132, 141–42, 147, 148, 167, 205, 219, 220, 235–36, 237, 248–49, 255–56, 287, 288 anger and temperamental outbursts of, 11–12, 13, 30, 39, 42, 55, 79–80, 81, 148, 149–50, 151, 160, 165, 166, 190, 236, 247, 274, 299, 300–301
Bayberry Bend Motel purchased by, 105–6
Bayberry Bend Motel run by, 11–16, 117–19, 126, 160, 249, 255, 266, 273
boyfriends and suitors of, 2, 55, 56, 77, 78, 81, 89–90, 91, 106, 116, 159–60, 165, 167–68, 177, 189, 247, 248, 274, 275–76
drinking by, 2, 3, 13, 21, 78, 89, 141, 149, 159, 165, 273, 274–75, 298, 299
elopement of, 275–76
first marriage and divorce of, 11–13
home economics teaching job of, 29, 56, 57, 90, 106, 115, 167, 168, 235
Liza’s adult conversations with, 2–4, 297–99, 300, 301
Liza’s car rides with, 21–22, 77–78, 80, 81, 89–90, 91, 149, 165–66, 248–49
Liza’s fear of, 2, 14, 126, 142, 298, 301
Liza’s one tender memory of, 150–51
Louisa given preferential treatment by, 61, 150–51, 177, 189–91
nightlife and socializing of, 2, 78, 116, 141, 142–43, 159, 189, 256, 273–74
in 1967 trip to Jekyll Island, 77–78, 79–81
Royal Coachman housekeeping job of, 2, 32–33, 49, 59, 81
as unloving and resentful of Liza, 14, 23, 49, 78, 81, 150–51, 190, 249, 299
verbal and physical abuse of Liza by, 13–14, 21, 23, 30, 31, 80–81, 119, 150, 151, 190, 236, 274, 275, 298, 299, 301
Wequassett Inn waitressing job of, 89, 90, 105
Bob Murray’s Pharmacy, 123, 202
Body Keeps Score, The (van der Kolk), 303–4
Bonaviri, Cecelia Costa, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19–20, 25, 50–51, 56–57, 59, 70, 83, 102, 103, 115, 125, 148, 162, 173, 182, 187, 202–3, 216, 219, 223, 227, 228, 235, 239, 242, 252, 258, 262, 266, 274, 296 as allegedly knowing about Tony’s dark side, 292–93, 304
death of, 277
drinking by, 63, 265, 304
Goldman’s interview of, 251
Liza’s warm relationship with, 33, 49, 51, 205–6, 265
Royal Coachman job of, 33, 49, 50, 51, 60, 91, 127, 146, 205, 265
Bonaviri, Joseph, 5, 7, 10, 63, 103, 136, 262, 276, 284–85, 304
Bonaviri, Vincent “Vinnie,” 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 50, 63, 83, 103, 145, 146, 200–201, 205, 234, 262 courtroom testimony of, 284–86
Boston, Mass., 5, 46, 123, 160, 200, 223, 228, 233–34, 243, 247, 255 gay scene in, 201
Walsh’s VW Beetle sighted in, 200–201, 203, 208, 234
Boston Common, 74, 133, 139, 146
Boston Strangler, 252, 267, 286, 295
Bradenton, Fla., 305, 306
Brewster, Mass., 90
Bridgewater, Mass., 11, 40
Bridgewater State Hospital, 36, 243, 244–45, 260, 267, 294
Bristol County, Mass., 241
Broderick, William, 200–201, 233–34
Bulger, Whitey, 7
Burlington, Vt., 223, 224, 226
Buzzards Bay, Mass., 118
C
Callis, Sidney, 36, 37, 73, 74, 83, 86, 187, 284 Tony’s burglarizing of, 111–12, 202
Candish, Donna, 163–64, 169, 240, 292, 295
Candish, Woody, 163, 169, 239, 240
Cape Cod Hospital, 169
Cape Cod Times, 240, 242, 253
Capote, Truman, 291
Catholic Church, Catholicism, 5, 8–9, 11, 13, 63, 148 divorce and, 12, 13, 26, 63
sexual abuse and, 8, 301
Cavanaugh, Justin, 243, 244, 251, 252, 271, 277
Chapmann, Gramma Dozie, 40
Chapmann, Grampa, 40, 41, 42
Chapmann, Judy (Liza’s aunt), 40
Chapmann, Louisa, 2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 21, 32, 33, 40, 49, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64–65, 78, 79, 90, 91, 93, 94, 116, 118, 125, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 141, 142, 143, 144, 147, 159, 167, 168, 205, 219, 221, 236, 248–49, 255, 256–57, 273, 274, 287, 301 eighth birthday of, 177, 189
Holy Communion of, 148–49
mother’s preferential treatment of, 61, 150–51, 177, 189–91
Chapmann, Roddy, 11–12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 39–42, 60, 63, 105–6, 148–49, 151, 219–20, 299 family funeral home of, 11, 40–42
child sex abuse, 8, 9, 110, 301, 306 as cause of psychosis, 303–5
chloral hydrate, 27, 102, 283–84
Cook, James, 153, 195, 199, 203, 207–8
Cook, Sarah, 97
Costa, Antone Charles “Tony,” 35–38, 56–57, 59–60, 69, 91–9
2, 115, 122–23, 125, 127, 142–43, 148, 153–56, 161, 173–74, 187, 205, 206, 219, 226, 235, 237, 247, 253, 258, 260, 265–66, 274, 276, 282, 283, 297, 307 adolescence of, 9–10, 15–18
Allen’s interviews of, 253, 261, 272
alter egos of, 54, 179, 181–82, 292
anxiety of, 36, 109, 121, 122, 153, 171, 293, 304
arrests of, 9, 153, 234, 239, 301
Avis’s relationship with, see Costa, Avis Lou Johnson
Barbara Spalding’s relationship with, 101–2, 307
in Barnstable County Jail, 153–54, 202, 240, 245, 251, 277, 278–79
basement room of, 96, 121
birth of, 5
Bonnie and Diane’s brief stay and road trip with, 43–47, 50, 53, 306
bow and arrow incident of, 87–88, 230
burglaries and thefts by, 111–12, 123, 202, 241
childhood of, 5–9, 227, 251, 262, 304
Christine Gallant and, see Gallant, Christine
“cool” persona cultivated by, 7, 15, 16, 17, 84, 95
couch surfing by, 53, 83, 84, 145, 161, 163, 169
courtroom statement of, 285
Croakie’s relationship with, 122, 123, 133
darkening moods and depression of, 35, 73, 85, 121, 145, 161, 162, 164, 182, 258, 284, 293, 305
death and funeral of, 294–96
Dedham apartment of, 133, 134, 139, 145, 146
diary and “factual novel” of, 179–80, 260, 279, 291–93
dismemberment of bodies by, 3, 186, 262, 268, 284, 292–93, 300
drinking by, 18, 54, 171, 172, 173, 174, 183
drug caches of, 112, 154, 155, 162, 179, 180, 272
drug dealing by, 74–75, 95–96, 107, 111, 123, 133, 262
drug use of, 36–37, 38, 43, 45, 54, 73–74, 83, 84, 87–88, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 109, 111, 121, 122–23, 133, 139, 145, 155, 161, 162, 171, 174, 179, 182, 184, 185, 186–87, 224, 241, 252, 271, 278, 284, 285, 291, 293