runaways, 47–48, 194
Russe, Matt, 100, 101
S
Sagamore Bridge, 11, 32, 249
St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, Provincetown, 17, 18, 68, 107, 145, 148, 149, 277, 296, 304 alleged sexual abuse at, 8
St. Vincent Millay, Edna, 67
Sally (sixteen-year-old chambermaid), 116, 125, 127, 142, 273
Salvador, Roland, 110, 111
Sandwich, Mass., 268, 297, 298
San Francisco, Calif., 43, 45, 46, 47, 100–103, 110, 306, 307 Golden Gate Park in, 101, 102
Haight-Ashbury in, 45, 100, 101, 102, 110, 305, 306
San Francisco General Hospital, 102
Savidge, Cynthia, 156
“serial killer,” coining of term, 270n, 303
sexual assault, 8, 9, 17, 270, 303, 304 of dead bodies, 181, 271, 272
spousal, 54
see also child sex abuse
Shea, Francis, 12, 13
Sloan, Danny, 168, 177, 189, 248–49, 276, 287
Sloan, Jill, 168, 177, 189, 248–49, 276, 287, 288
Sloan, Ron, 159–60, 165, 167–68, 177, 189, 247, 248, 249, 255, 273, 274, 275–76, 287, 288
Solacen, 36–37, 38, 43, 54, 73, 111
Somerville, Mass., 5, 7, 9, 26, 304
Spalding, Barbara, 101–2, 103, 306–7 death of, 307, 308
disappearance of, 267, 305
Spalding, Bobby, 101–2
speed, 44, 107, 110, 139, 224
spousal rape, 54
Starline Construction, 133, 145
Steve (Betty’s boyfriend), 275
Stoughton High School, 29, 56, 90, 106, 167, 168
Stranger, Bob, 116–17, 118–19, 142, 235, 257, 265
syphilis, 86
T
Tex (Liza’s neighbor), 166–67, 168, 205, 248
Thorazine, 139
Tim (Liza’s husband), 2
Titicut Follies (documentary), 36
Tom (Betty’s secret boyfriend), 56, 77, 78, 81, 106, 167
Truro Rescue Squad, 210
Truro woods, 17, 26, 64, 163, 208, 242 bow and arrow incident in, 87–88, 230
burial sites in, 170–71, 180, 185–87, 210–12, 232–33, 281–82, 300
dismembered bodies discovered in, 210–13, 215, 223, 232–33, 241, 245
jury’s tour of, 281–82
Liza and Tony’s visits to, 4, 129–32, 143–44, 258, 300
as morbid tourist attraction, 242, 266
police searches of, 210–11, 229–33
Tony’s drug cache in, 112, 154, 162, 179, 180, 272
Tony’s “secret garden” in, 84, 87, 130–32, 143–44, 170–71, 180, 185
Walsh’s VW Beetle sighted in, 197–99, 203, 207, 208, 210, 225
Walsh/Wysocki murders in, 179–82, 183–84
Turbidy, Robert, 193–94, 202, 211–12, 226, 232, 282 in search of Standish Guest House, 215–17
Walsh’s final conversation with, 193, 217–18
V
Van Dam, Herbie, 184–85
van der Kolk, Bessel, 303–4
Vietnam War, 110, 306
Vonnegut, Kurt, 253
Von Utter, John Joseph “Jay,” 107, 108, 109, 111, 123, 154, 202
W
Wallace, Mike, 69
Wallace Pharmaceuticals, 37
Wally’s restaurant, 174
Walpole State Prison, 286, 287, 291, 293–95, 296n
Walsh, Catherine, 194, 195, 226, 282
Walsh, Leonard, 193–94, 195, 199, 226, 282
Walsh, Patricia, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199, 200, 202, 207–8, 211, 212, 215, 216, 223, 225, 226, 228, 233, 244, 260, 261, 268, 271, 277, 293, 300 final days of, 171–74, 175, 179, 180
murder of, 179–80, 181–82, 183–84, 262, 269, 271–72; see also Walsh/Wysocki murder case
Turbidy’s final conversation with, 193, 217–18
VW Beetle of, 172, 174, 175, 185–86, 194, 197–99, 200–201, 203, 207–8, 210, 224–25, 226, 227, 234, 244, 281, 282, 285
Walsh/Wysocki murder case, 201–2, 223–24, 271, 277 bodies sexually violated in, 181, 271, 293
burying of bodies in, 185, 186–87
Dinis’s press conference in, 241–42
dismemberment of bodies in, 3, 186, 232, 233, 242, 262, 265, 268, 269, 292
fake telegram in, 228
forged note in, 183, 202
girls’ parents interviewed in, 226
killings in, 179–82, 183–84, 262, 269, 271–72
local gallows humor on, 278
loved ones’ growing worry in, 193–94, 195–96, 199, 202, 215, 226
media coverage of, 212–13, 235, 240, 241–42, 286
missing persons’ reports filed in, 194, 199
police investigation in, 199–203, 207–8, 210–12, 217, 223–28, 229–34, 239–40
public opinion and gossip on, 220–21, 239–41, 242, 257–58, 265, 287
search for and sightings of Walsh’s VW Beetle in, 194–95, 197–99, 200–201, 203, 207–8, 210, 224, 226, 234
Tony arrested in, 233–34, 239, 243, 301
Tony as person of interest/suspect in, 202, 223, 225, 227–28, 229, 230
Tony’s cover stories and lies in, 217, 223, 224–25, 226–27, 228, 244, 259, 260–61, 267, 268, 269, 270n, 271
Tony’s partial confessions in, 268, 269–72
Tony’s police interviews in, 224–25, 226–27, 259
Tony’s polygraph tests and, 179, 267–70
Tony’s possession of Walsh’s and Wysocki’s belongings in, 184–85, 186, 201, 216–17, 223, 224
Tony’s psychiatric evaluations in, 243, 244–45, 260–63, 267, 271–72, 281
Tony surveilled in, 201, 228, 233, 234
trial in, 281–86
Truro woods searched in, 210–11, 229–33
Turbidy’s personal investigative work in, 202, 215–17
unidentified dismembered bodies found in course of, 210–13, 215, 223, 233, 241, 245
Walsh’s and Wysocki’s bodies found in, 232–33, 241
Waters, John, 74, 87
Wellfleet, Mass., 36, 111, 123, 159, 160
Wequassett Inn, 89, 90, 105
West Bridgewater, Mass., 30, 32, 63, 77, 105, 115, 160, 165, 167, 168, 205, 206, 219, 247, 257
White Wind Inn, 161, 162, 170
Will (Liza’s son), 297, 298
Williams, Bonnie, 43–47, 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
Williams, Harold, 157, 261–63, 270, 272
Wiseman, Frederick, 36
Wolfson, Victor, 253
Wordsworth, William, 245
World War II, 5, 208
Wysocki, Martha, 195–96, 226, 282
Wysocki, Mary Anne, 194, 195–96, 197, 199, 201, 202, 207–8, 211, 212, 215, 216, 223, 226, 228, 232, 239, 244, 261, 268, 271, 277, 293, 300 final days of, 171–74, 175, 179, 180
see also Walsh/Wysocki murder case
Wysocki, Walter, 195–96, 226, 282
Y
Yarmouth, Mass., 108, 199, 208, 217
Z
Zacharias, Jim “Zach,” 175, 240
Zimmerman, Charles H., 267–69
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Title: The babysitter : my summers with a serial killer / Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan.
Description: New York, NY : Atria Books, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Costa, Antone Charles, –1974. | Rodman, Liza. | Serial Murderers—Massachusetts—Provincetown—Biography. | Serial Murders—Massachusetts—Provincetown.
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