Warning: the content of these murders is graphic and unsettling.Charlie Chop-off - PART 1 - The vict

Warning: the content of these murders is graphic and unsettling.Charlie Chop-off - PART 1 - The victimsBetween 1972 and 1974, the bodies of 5 young black and Puerto Rican boys were discovered in Manhattan, New York. Another boy was assaulted and left for dead. The victims were stabbed or slashed, and their genitals were mutilated and, in most cases, removed entirely. Douglas Owens, age 8. He was the first victim, discovered in March of 1972 after he went missing while running errands on a rainy day. He was stabbed 38 times and his genitals were cut almost all the way off, but not removed. His shoes were off when he was found. There was evidence of potential sexual assault. He was discovered just two blocks from his home, his body left on a rooftop. An unnamed victim was assaulted in April and left for dead in the hallway of an apartment building. He was identified as a 10-year-old black boy but not named in the press. Like Douglas Owens, he was attacked on a rainy day while running errands. Like Owens, his shoes were removed. He was sexually assaulted, stabbed, gutted, and his genitals removed. The perpetrator took the genitals with him when fleeing the scene. He survived but was unable to provide the police with much information about his assailant, due to the trauma he experienced. The police were able to develop a very vague profile of the suspect: Spanish or Italian, with a mole on his cheek, thin, neither light-skinned nor dark-skinned, possibly with a limp. He called himself “Michael” and lured the boy to him with the promise of 50 cents. This victim’s genitals were later recovered in a park by the police, who found a group of children playing with them. Wendall Hubbard, age 9. He vanished while playing in a yard near his home in East Harlem in October 1972. His mother called him to come inside, and, when he didn’t make it into the apartment, she promptly reported him missing. He was discovered on the rooftop of his own apartment building a few hours later, which was just six blocks away from where Douglas Owens’ body was found. He had been stabbed 17 times in the abdomen, neck, and chest. His body was mutilated and his genitals were removed and apparently carried away by the attacker. There was evidence that he had been sexually assaulted. Luis Ortiz, age 9. He went missing in March 1973 after purchasing milk and bread at a local store. Discovered in the basement of an apartment building, he was the first victim who was not black; he was a dark-skinned Puerto Rican boy. He was also stabbed 38 times in the back, neck, and chest, and his genitals were removed and taken by the perpetrator. Multiple witnesses reported seeing the boy’s abductor, resulting in the development of a composite sketch. Steven Cropper, age 8. He was discovered on the 6th floor of a tenement house in August 1973. His murder was different from that of the other victims. He was slashed with a razor blade, rather than stabbed with a knife. The cause of death was a severed artery in his arm. There was no mutilation of the genitals in his case; however, his body was posed in a “sexually suggestive” manner that was indicative of assault. His shoes were removed and placed by his body. Nonetheless, the police concluded that he must be the victim of the same killer, reasoning that it would be too coincidental for two killers with similar victim profiles and MOs to be operating in the same area. -- source link

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