Cape Cod serial killer Tony Costa // exploring an abandoned summer camp my Dad went to in 1969!

-Visiting the former Camp Monomoy for boys that my Dad attended in 1968/1969. The camp became Cape Cod Sea Camps and officially closed in 2020.
-Checking out different sites around truro/ptown related to Tony Costa. According to Wikipedia: "Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944 - May 12, 1974) was an American serial killer and carpenter who achieved notoriety for committing serial murders in and around the Massachusetts town of Truro in 1969. The case gained international attention when district attorney Edmund Dinis, in comments to the media, claimed "The hearts of each girl had been removed from the bodies and were not in the graves…Each body was cut into as many parts as there are joints." Dinis also claimed that there were teeth marks found on the bodies. These claims produced a stream of national and international media outlets into local Provincetown, Massachusetts. The media attention was so great that Kurt Vonnegut (whose daughter Edith had met Costa) compared him to Jack the Ripper in an article in the July 25, 1969 issue of Life Magazine, which was included in his collection of essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons. Vonnegut maintained a correspondence with Costa. The author said, "The message of his letters to me was that a person as intent on being virtuous as he could not possibly have hurt a fly. He believed it." Costa was suspected of killing eight women: Diane Federoff, Bonnie Williams, Barbara Spaulding, Sydney Monson, Susan Perry, Christine Gallant, Patricia Walsh, and Mary Anne Wysocki but convicted of killing only two: Walsh and Wysocki. Although suspected of killing Federoff, Williams and Spalding, those women were later found alive. On February 8, 1969, while looking for the bodies of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki, police discovered Susan Perry. Perry had been missing since the previous Labor Day. Perry's body had been cut into eight pieces. When Wysocki's body was found about a month later, her torso and head had been buried separately. Not long after, Walsh and the rest of Wysocki's body were found in a forest clearing that Costa had used for growing marijuana. This "garden" of marijuana plants and the greater case inspired the true crime book In His Garden, by Leo Damore."

[@Larkinchance]

very good, thank you. I arrived in Provincetown in the summer of 1970.

[@leedimatteo5078]

i guess Lindsey isnt afraid of coyotes, lol

[@portiamarie3713]

Thank you, I read the book : In his Garden years ago
Interesting Interesting fellow 😳

[@lindseycd]

I just ordered the book! Thanks for watching :)

[@Tomss778]

Someone said his ancestry was p o r t g e a s e but he may have had a half brother in boston who had an italian last name so maybe he was half and half.

[@jaspajones7045]

I am sleeping at the cemetery this month for Halloween.

[@jaspajones7045]

@@harmonylove7006 awesome 👏

[@lindseycd]

woah that is brave of you! let me know how it goes

[@anthony8385]

Did he eat the flesh?