Monday, November 16, 2015

THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES

11/16/1957 - Unable to control his appetite for murder, and what he does with his victims after, the "Mad Butcher" of Wisconsin, 51-year-old nut-job, Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein, kills Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden ... the death that will lead authorities to the mad handyman and farmer.
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Born on August 27, 1906, to an alcoholic handyman and a maniac religious mother, the youngest of two boys, Gein is odd from birth ... and is made odder by his mother, Augusta Wilhelmine. Relocated to an isolated farm outside of Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1914, Ed is allowed to leave the farm only to go to school ... at home, he receives daily lectures from his mother on the innate immorality of the world, the evils of drinking, and the how women are instruments of Satan, and is read passages from the Bible that deal with death, murder, and divine retribution.  It isn't long before school mates notice the youngest Gein boy is different, and begin bullying him for his shyness (and at home he is punished for even attempting to make friends with the few children that don't tase him) and small stature (he is only 5'5" at his adult height), and for his strange mannerisms, like laughing out loud at nothing at all, as if he is hearing private jokes in his head.

Gein

Father gone as a result of his excessive drinking at the age of 66 in 1940.  Ed's brother is the next to exit the family ... dying under mysterious circumstances in a burnt marsh where the brothers had been working.  Ruled an asphyxiation accident by the local coroner, in hindsight it now appears more likely that his brother Henry is Ed's first murder victim in 1944.  After two strokes, his mother dies in 1945 at the age of 67.  Devastated by the loss of his "... only friend and one true love," with the death of his mother, Gein is left alone on the 160-acre farm ... where there is now no one to stop him from indulging in his twisted sexual fantasies.

The Gein Farmhouse

Earning money from odd jobs about the region, and a federal farm subsidy, Gein boards up the rooms his mother use to use (the upstairs of the house, the downstairs parlor and living room) and lives in a small space near the kitchen, reading death-cult magazines and adventure stories dealing with cannibals and Nazi death camps ... reading until he begins living out his fantasies.  And so it is that Gein starts sneaking out in the dead of night, to dig up female corpses from local graveyards for a series of "experiments" in which bodies are cut up and played with towards the goal of Gein someday, somehow, becoming a woman (he literally makes a female body suit he can climb into ... authorities later believe he has broken into over 40 graves)).  And when there are no graves worth plucking, Gein escalates his criminal activities into murder ... killing the 51-year-old owner of a saloon in the town of Pine Grove, Mary Hogan, in the head with a .22 pistol, and then dragging the body back to the farm on a sled in 1954.

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Mary Hogan

The Saloon

Hogan After Gein

Thought of as just some harmless local town color, the truth of Gein's character comes out when he is not able to resist murdering 58-year-old Bernice Worden.  In need of some anti-freeze, Gein finds Worden alone in her store on cold Saturday morning, walks over to the gun display in the shop, takes down a .22 rifle, inserts a single bullet he has brought from home, and shoots Worden dead. Murder finished, the maniac then steal's the cash register and its contents of $41, locks up the store, and using the back door, takes the corpse home for new "experiments."
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Worden

The Hardware Store

Later that day when Worden's son Frank, who also is Plainfield's deputy sheriff, returns from hunting, he finds the store locked, his mother missing, and a puddle of blood on the floor ... he also finds a receipt for Worden's last transaction, a slip of paper noting the purchase of a half gallon of anti-freeze.  Remembering a conversation from the day before in which Gein mentioned needing anti-freeze, Worden takes off for the Gein Farm, where, as the saying goes, the shit quickly hits the fan.  Denying any knowledge of the missing women at first, Gein soon changes his story when authorities begin exploring the farm in search of Worden ... and discover the shy farmer's house is a real life chamber of horrors!
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Dark Secrets Within

So awful that one officer goes berserk and starts banging Gein's head and face into a brick wall (causing Gein's first confession to be ruled inadmissible in court), the catalog of horrors within the walls of the farmhouse include: scores of bones and bone fragments, a wastebasket made of human flesh, chair seats cushioned by human skins, skulls on the posts of Gein's bed, an assortment of female skulls (some with the tops sawed off), eating bowls made from human skulls, a corset made out of a female torso, leggings made out of human leg skin, skin masks made from female heads, Mary Hogan's face in a paper bag and her skull in a box, Worden's head in a burlap sack, Worden's heart in a plastic bag beside Gein's potbellied stove, the vulva of nine different women in a shoe box, a purse with grips made of human skin, a belt made out of human female breast nipples, four noses, a tom-tom made from a coffee can with human skin stretched over the top, a pair of lips on a window shade drawstring, a human face lamp shade, dozens of fingernails from human females, a refrigerator full of frozen human organs, and Worden's body in a shed, decapitated, and hung upside down by ropes around the wrists and a crossbar at her ankles, as if she were a deer being dressed prior to storage and eating.
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Skull Bowl
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Obviously not playing with a full deck, Gein is found mentally incompetent of standing trial, and is sent to the maximum-security Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Waupun, then later transferred to the Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.  Never free again, Gein dies at the institute from lung cancer in July of 1984 at the age of 77.

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Dead ... and yet not gone at all, after his death Gein becomes the boogy-man for generations of Americans in fact and in fiction. Robert Bloch uses the man's life for his fictional character Norman Bates in his 1959 suspense novel, Psycho ... which Alfred Hitchcock in turn makes into one of the most famous thrillers in Hollywood history.  And he is also the source for Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and Bloody Face from television's American Horror Story. Beyond the sound of screams, examples of songs in which Gein serves as cannibal goblin include Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask," Mudvayne's "Nothing To Gein," the Ziggen's "Ed Gein," and Blind Melon's "Soup."
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11/16/1957 ... bonzo-brained Ed Gein "experiments" on a corpse for the last time ... MERCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Monday, November 9, 2015

A MONSTER NAMED LIST

11/9/1971 - Mentally unhinged by losing his job and being married to a wife that has become an alcoholic (to go along with her untreated tertiary syphilis), 46-year-old John Emil List murders five members of his family in Westfield, New Jersey, and then vanishes ... for 18 long years!
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Born in Bay City, Michigan in 1925 to devoutly religious German-American parents, for a long time List seems normal ... during WWII he serves as a lab technician for the U.S. Army, receives a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, serves in the army again during the Korean war, marries widowed Helen Morris Taylor, works for an accounting firm in Detroit, serves as an audit supervisor for a paper company in the town of Kalamazoo, moves to New York and takes a job with Xerox (where he will rise to director of accounting services), and in 1965, accepts a position as vice-president and controller of a Jersey City, New Jersey bank.  By 1971 however, List's rosy life with his wife and their family is enveloped in darkness ... after losing his job at the bank, not wanting to share his humiliation, List spends work hours at the local train station reading the newspaper and people watching until it is time to go home for dinner, he skims money from his mother's bank account to avoid defaulting on his home mortgage, and rages about his disintegrating marriage (he will testify in court later that he was duped into marriage by Taylor telling him she is pregnant with his child, and her insistence that they marry in Maryland where no blood test is first needed for a license ... a blood test that might reveal syphilis, alcoholism, and that there is no baby on the way).  Not playing with a full deck, he chooses to spare his family from having to endure List's failures as a spouse, father, and bread winner ... by murdering them (and for himself, starting over somewhere else with a new name, family, and career)!

The List Family - John, Helen, and Frederick - Patricia and John F. Behind

19 Room Mansion - The 1971 Home of the List Family

On Tuesday, 11/9/1971, List goes into action while his children are at school.  Using his own 9mm Steyr 1912 semi-automatic pistol, and his father's Colt .22 caliber revolver, List shoots his 46-year-old wife Helen in the back of the head, and then his 84-year-old mother Alma in the face, just above her left eye.  In the early afternoon when they come home, he kills his 16-year-old daughter Patricia and his 13-year-old son Frederick with the bullets to the backs of their heads too.  Then, after making himself lunch, List drives to the bank and closes out his own and his mother's bank accounts, then goes to his 15-year-old son John Jr's school to see his eldest son play in a soccer game.  Game over, he then drives his son home and shoots the youth repeatedly in the chest and face (shot twice in the back of the head, when the body twitches in death, just to make sure his boy is no more, List empties his pistol into John Jr.).  Murders completed, the monster then tidies up after himself ... the bodies of his wife and children are placed in sleeping bags in the home's expansive ballroom, his mother's body is left in its attic apartment, and five page letter documenting his excuses for the attack is left for List's pastor, every picture of List is removed form the house, the lights in the house are turned on, and finally, he turns the radio on to a religious station before leaving in the family's Chevy Impala.
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The Rest of the Family

The mansion set back from other homes in the neighborhood, and the family know as being reclusive, mail, milk, and newspaper delivery stopped, school informed the family would be in North Carolina for several weeks visiting Helen's mother, the killings are not discovered until December 7th, when neighbors call police to report the home's lights have been left on and are one by one going out.  Bloodbath discovered, the case becomes the second biggest in New Jersey history (#1 of course being the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case) and a national manhunt for List is immediately begun. 

List

Poof ... for 18 years the whereabouts of List are a mystery, until on 5/21/1989, America's Most Wanted television show runs an episode on the cold case featuring a age-progressed clay bust, sculpted by forensic artist Frank Bender, depicting how the killer might have aged over the years ... and the phone calls to authorities begin coming in!  Jackpot, a neighbor in Richmond, Virginia recognizes the face on the screen, calls the police, and List is arrested two weeks after the show airs using the name of a college classmate, Bob Clark, while he once again pursues a career as an accountant (it will take months before List finally admits his real identity).

Bender & Bust
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At trial the story of the 18 years comes out (18 years, five months, and 22 days to be precise) ... after the murders, List drives to a train station and travels by that means of transportation first to Michigan, and then on to Colorado.  Settling in Denver and using Clark's name, from 1979 to 1986, the killer works as controller at a paper box manufacturer, joins a local Lutheran congregation (where he runs a car pool for shut-in members of the church), and marries a Army PX clerk named Delores Miller.  In 1988, the couple moves to Midlothian, Virginia.
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Busted!

Though identified as suffering from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder by a court-appointed psychiatrist, on 4/12/1990, List is found guilty on all five counts of first degree murder, and is sentenced to serve five live sentences consequently ... the maximum permissible punishment at the time.  Idiot to the end, when questioned by Connie Chung in 2002 as to why he hadn't yet committed suicide in payment for his actions, List responds that suicide is a no-no that would bar him from Heaven, a Heaven he fully expects to enter someday, and where he believes he will be reunited with the family he murdered.  Suffering from pneumonia complications while under custody at the St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey, List passes away on March 21, 2008, at the age of 82 ... and no one mourns his leaving!
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

PAY YOUR LOSSES

11/4/1928 - As the Roaring Twenties wind down, the era loses one of its largest figures, a racketeer, businessman, and gambler so big that that is his nickname, Mr. Big (others prefer calling him The Brain or The Fixer) ... gunned down by persons unknown to this day (though its easy to guess culprits), 46-year-old Jewish mobster Arnold Rothstein shuffles off the scene in Manhattan.
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Rothstein

Born into a comfortable life in Manhattan in 1882 (his father, Abraham, is a successful local businessman known to the neighborhood as "Abe the Just"), Rothstein at an early age becomes a savant in mathematics ... a talent that soon morphs into a love of odds and gambling.  In his own words, "I think I gambled because I loved the excitement.  When I gambled, nothing else mattered." By the time Rothstein is in his 20s, he has gambled his way into a half ownership in a high class combination gambling parlor and whore house of plush carpets, chandeliers, cold champagne, and loose women that puts $10,000 a week in the mobster's pockets ... $10,000 a week that is not enough for the greedy, power hungry gangster.

Young Arnold

Continuing to invest his assorted "winnings," Rothstein becomes an owner of Havre de Crace horse race track in Maryland (where many races are "fixed" in the gambler's favor) and becomes a millionaire by the age of 30.

Havre de Grace Racetrack

Though never formally charged or put behind bars, in 1919 Rothstein pulls off the gambling coup for which he is most infamous ... using "friends" Abe Atell and Joseph "Sport" Sullivan for the negotiations, the gambler is able to fix the outcome of the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds by bribing and threatening eight members of the Chicago team (although found innocent in a court trial, pitcher Eddie Cicotte, center fielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch, first baseman Arnold "Chick" Gandil, star outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, utility infielder Fred McMullin, shortstop Charles "Swede" Risberg, third baseman George "Buck" Weaver, and pitcher Claude "Lefty" Williams will be banned from the sport for life for their participation in scheme).  For the Reds winning, Rothstein pockets a cool $350,000.
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The 1919 White Sox Squad

Risberg & Weaver At Their 1921 Trial

A winner again in 1921, Rothstein orchestrates events at that year's Travers Stakes into a victory for the horse he owns, Sporting Blood, to win bets the gambler has placed, and to take the large purse that comes to the race's winner ... picking up $500,000 for his efforts.

Headlines After The Race

Operating out of his table office in Lindy's deli and restaurant on Broadway and 49th Street in Manhattan (the establishment will be renamed Mindy's in the famous musical, Guys and Dolls), always on the lookout for a new score and more money, in 1920, Rothstein becomes one of the first criminals in the country to realize the immense profits that can be made by selling booze to a drink crazed country (and narcotics too!) ... banking support and lots of high-powered political connections soon have the mobster smuggling liquor into the country from the Hudson River and over the Great Lakes, speakeasy distribution sites are purchased and individuals are hired to oversee operations, budding crooks that include Meyer Lansky, Jack "Legs" Diamond, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, and Dutch Schultz (Mr. Big will become so big that for a hefty fee, he mediates arguments between various criminal gangs ... along with legitimate New York businesses).

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Diamond & Schultz

The good life, at his pinnacle in the 20s, protected by his bodyguard Diamond, nightly Rothstein is dropped off at the curb of Broadway and 49th, then walks to 42nd Street and back dressed in suits that cost over $400 and highly polished shoes that cost over $50, taking bets and placing bets, collecting money and paying debts from the $100,000 roll of bills he carries on his person every day (in thousand dollar bills) ... then its decision time, take a seat in Lindy's for more business or a meal, explore the city's nightclub scene, hit one of his whorehouses for a free roll, visit his mistress in one of over a dozen apartments he keeps in the city, or go home to his wife Carolyn and their luxurious abode on West 46th Street (a residence outfitted with all the latest conveniences ... including roulette wheels, and faro and poker tables).  It is estimated that Rothstein's net worth is somewhere in the realm of $50,000,000.

Carolyn Rothstein

Top of the world, but then in 1928, Rothstein starts to lose with his gambles, and also suffers major financial losses when the stock market crashes in September.  Rothstein's solution is to recoup his losses by playing in the biggest poker game of the decade (hundreds of thousands of dollars are wagered in the game that lasts three days) ... a decision which will cost the gambler his life.

Rothstein

Playing in the expensive Park Central apartment of gambler George "Hump" McManus, Rothstein's luck does not change, and he loses hand after hand to two high rollers from California, Alvin Clarence Thomas, who goes by the moniker of Titanic Thompson, and one "Nigger Nate" Raymond.  Upset immensely at his fortunes, Rothstein accuses the pair of cheating ... to which they laugh in the criminal kingpin's face.  Frustrated and seeking a quick fix to recoup some of his losses, after 48 hours of playing cards, Rothstein challenges Raymond to a $50,000 hand of high-card draw ... drawing first, Rothstein pulls a Queen and begins grinning ... until Raymond pulls an Ace.  Cursing, Rothstein tells the men he will pay his losses of $320,000 the following day, claiming he doesn't have that kind of money at hand ("I don't carry that sort of dough under my fingernails," the gambler exclaims, though he has $500,000 on his person at the time) ... then away from the game, tells everybody he meets over the course of the next few weeks that he was cheated and isn't going to pay the Californians.
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Raymond

Thompson

On Sunday, 11/4, after betting $500,000 that Herbert Hoover will beat Al Smith for the presidency (he also bets FDR will become governor of New York), Rothstein is at his Lindy table taking bets when he receives a phone call that soon has him grabbing his coat and leaving the restaurant, telling friends he is going to see Hump McManus at the Park Central.  Roughly 30 minutes later (the shooting is called in at 10:30 in the evening), a Park Central bellboy finds Rothstein holding his stomach in the service entrance of the building, gushing blood from a single bullet wound in his abdomen.  Rushed to Polyclinic Hospital, police ask Rothstein who shot him, and in the finest tradition of wounded mobsters, the kingpin criminal smiles, raises a silencing finger to his lips, and then slumps forward and dies (he dies on 11/6, not knowing Hoover and FDR have won their elections and he is over $500,000 richer).

To the Funeral Home

Too many enemies to know who fired the killing bullet, despite a trail of blood leading to McManus' apartment, the poker game host is found not guilty at his trial (the legend that Rothstein pulls a Royal Flush in his last hand of poker are untrue, when police search the McManus apartment they find five hands on a poker table ... the losing hand with not even an ace high, bears the blood fingerprints of the criminal kingpin), Raymond isn't charged when a beautiful blonde provides the Californian with a sex romp alibi, and Thompson is never charged (also thought to be involved at the time is Dutch Schultz, killing the gambler in revenge for Legs Diamond killing one of Schultz's men).  What is known is what happens afterwards ... his criminal empire is broken up into pieces that are claimed by his former employees, Lansky, Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Erickson, and others, and ten years after the murder, Rothstein's estate is declared bankrupt ... all the riches are gone.

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Monday, November 2, 2015

DEATH ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

11/1/1950 - Thinking their act will raise awareness in the cause of independence for Puerto Rico, Nationalists Griselio Torresola (25-years-old) and Oscar Collazo (36-years-old) put into play the madly suicidal plan they have concocted in New York City ... launching an attack on Blair House in Washington D.C. to kill the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman.
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Rosa and Oscar Collazo & Torresola
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President Truman

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Both members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from an early age (they view Puerto Rico as a colony of an imperialist America, a colony deserving of being an independent country ... made so by violent means if necessary), the would-be assassins quickly bond with each other when they meet as members of the New York branch of their party.  Incensed at the Ponce Massacre of 1937 (a march in Puerto Rico in support of independence that becomes violent ... 19 marchers will be killed along with 2 police officers, and another 235 Puerto Ricans are wounded), the murder of several members of the party, the incarceration of their party's president, Pedro Albizu Campos, and the failure of the Jayuya Uprising in Puerto Rico (3 Nationalists will be killed, 6 police officers wounded, martial law will be declared, and the city of Jayuya will be strafed by U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts before the revolt is put down ... and during the event, Torresola's sister is wounded and his brother is arrested), the pair quickly concoct a plan to kill Truman ... believing security will be less difficult to cope with while Truman resides at Blair House (the White House is undergoing renovations), the pair while kill the guards on the street, sweep into the home, and take out Truman.

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Campos at Harvard - 1919

1950 - Martial Law in Puerto Rico
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Symbol of the Nationalist Party

Taking a train from New York City down to Washington D.C., the pair arrive at the Capitol's Union Station on Halloween and check-in for the evening at the Harris Hotel.  The next day they head for Blair House ... in concert, Torresola approaches from the west side of Pennsylvania Avenue, holding a 9x19mm eight-round German Luger, while Collazo comes up the street from the opposite direction armed with a German eight-shot 9mm Walther P.38 pistol.
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German Luger
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The Actual Pistols - Harry S. Truman Library

Collazo is the first of the assassins to go into action.  Coming up behind police officer Donald Birdzell standing on the steps leading into Blair House, near one of the two guard booths in front of the building, Collazo tries to shoot the lawman, but not familiar with the gun Torresola has given him, forgets to chamber a round first. Fixing the problem, the gun goes off as Birdzell starts to turn around and the officer goes down, hit in the right knee. Hearing shots from outside, Secret Service Agent Vincent Mroz runs through a basement corridor in Blair House, steps out of street level door on the east side of the structure, and opens fire on Collazo, along with Secret Service Agent Floyd Boring (who crazes Collazo in the head with a slug from his .38 service revolver) and police officer Joseph Davidson.  A one on three gunfight in a matter of seconds, only feet away from the entrance to Truman's residence, Mroz stops Collazo with a well placed slug to the chest (the would-be killer will unfortunately survive his wound).

Wounded Officer Birdzell

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Collazo In Front Of Blair House
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After - Agent Mroz Holding Torresola's Luger

While Collazo is being brought down, Torresola approaches the west corner guard booth and surprises 40-year-old White House Police Officer Leslie Coffelt.  Firing on the officer from almost point-blank range, Coffelt goes down with three bullets in his chest and abdomen (a fourth round goes through Coffelt's coat).  One obstacle dealt with, Torresola then targets police officer Joseph Downs, bringing the lawman down before he can draw his weapon with a bullet that hits Downs in the hip, and making sure he stays down with two more rounds to the officer's back and neck (though gravely wounded, Downs will crawl to the basement entrance of Blair House and lock the door behind him, barring entrance into the building ... taken to a nearby hospital after the attack, like Birdzell, he will also survive his wounds).  Downs dealt with, Torresola next turns his attention to the gun battle his partner is in ... firing a round that wounds the already wounded Birdzell in the left knee.
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Blair House After
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Pennsylvania Avenue After

Woken from his nap on the second floor by the sound of gunfire from outside, Truman gets out of bed and goes to a window that looks down on the street ... and there, only 31 feet away, the president makes eye contact with Torresola as the killer stands on the steps leading into Blair House while he reloads his Luger. Yanked away from the dangerous window's view, Truman misses seeing his assailant go down a second later.  A hero's hero, though mortally wounded, Coffelt pulls himself to his feet, leans against his guard station, and from ten yards away, puts a single shot from his .38 pistol into the skull of Torresola, just above his ear, killing the gunman instantly (he then stumbles back to his seat and blacks out, dying four hours later at a local hospital ... he leaves a widow behind and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery ... his epitaph reads, "White House Policeman: Who Gave His Life in Defense of the President of the United States at the Blair House, Washington D.C.").

Leslie W. Coffelt
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Torresola After Coffelt's Shot
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To the Morgue for Torresola

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Gravesite of a Hero - Arlington National Cemetery

A lifetime of seconds with lead flying about, Torresola's gunfight lasts roughly 20 seconds, while Collazo's battle lasts about 38 seconds.

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Protected, President Truman survives the bullet protest from the gunmen, serving out his term of office and becoming one of the great leaders in American history before retiring back to Independence, Missouri.  Done with politics, he lives out his life in the company of his wife, writes his memoirs, and dies from pneumonia complications at the age of 88.

Retirement

12/27/1972 - Truman's Casket

Nursed back to health, Collazo goes on trial for the attack on Truman and the murder of Officer Coffelt ... convicted in Federal Court, Collazo is sentenced to death for his crimes, but a kind hearted Truman (not wanting to give the Puerto Rican independence movement a dead martyr ... it also helps that Collazo's wife coordinates a push that gathers over 100,000 signatures requesting the gunman should be saved from the electric chair), commutes the sentence to life in Leavenworth Prison ... a sentence that touchie-feelie Georgian foulball Jimmy Carter commutes to time served in 1979 (shortly afterwards, Collazo will be given a "freedom" medal by Communist Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro) after the assassin had been behind bars for 29 years (along with commutations for Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Lolita Lebron, the ass clowns that attacked Congress in 1954, wounding five members of the House of Representatives, again as a means of seeking Puerto Rican independence).  Freed, Collazo returns to Puerto Rico where he dies from a stroke at the age of 80.

11/1/1950 - Washington D.C. - Blair House - Agent Floyd Boring & Collazo