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The ‘Butcher of Bellerose’ approved for parole decades after killing 4-year-old neighbor, 18-year-old immigrant: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

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Feb. 3, 2024 By the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society

In 1968, the city of New York was gripped by the disappearance of a little girl from Woodhaven. Those emotions turned to horror when the little girl’s body was discovered in a neighbor’s attic and the killer was revealed to be a 16-year-old boy.