Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On November 4, 1987, nine-year-old Frankie Barnes was reported missing
when he failed to return from a neighborhood bike ride in Providence,
Rhode Island. His bicycle was found two weeks later, concealed in tall
grass near an abandoned brewery, less than a half-mile from his home.
A month later, on December 14, six-year-old Jason Wolf vanished in
Providence, after his mother sent him out to retrieve the daily mail.
Teenagers found his body on December 21, two miles from home, discarded
in some brush near Mashapaug Pond. An autopsy revealed the cause of
death as blows to the head, inflicted with a blunt instrument. Police
were still puzzling over the case five days later, when they received an
anonymous note in the mail. It read:
You will find the little boy by a wooden cross near Tongue Pond.
I didn't want to do it. Satan ordered me to. I hope you will kill
me, cops, because I don't know why I killed the children.
Following the note's instructions, searchers found Frankie Barnes on the
northern shoreline of Tongue Pond, his body gashed by multiple stab
wounds. An examination of the envelope revealed faint impressions of a
man's name, followed by the phrase:
"Catch me if you can, ha, ha, ha."
Police called on the suspect, and he suggested his name might have been
used by an enemy, William Sarmento, who had recently tried to seduce the
man's girlfriend.
Police were familiar with the 21-year-old Sarmento. In 1985, he pled
guilty to assaulting a neighborhood dog catcher and was sentenced to one
year's probation. Three days later, he was picked up again, on charges
of assault with a dangerous weapon, and he served 20 days in jail for
violating his probation. Residents of Frankie Barnes's neighborhood
recalled seeing Sarmento in the vicinity, and investigation disclosed
that Sarmento was a childhood acquaintance of Jason Wolf's mother.
Detectives held a press conference on December 29, 1987, naming Sarmento
as their primary suspect in two murders. Later that day, he was seen
ducking into a cellar and police were summoned to make the arrest. Held
without bond pending psychiatric evaluation, Sarmento is rumored to have
confessed to both homicides.
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Kathy E
"I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow
isn't looking too good for you either"
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