a criminal's mind

a collection of known serial killers, what they did, who their victims were, and their stories.

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Rosemary Keenan

Attacked on October 23, 1976

Location: Forest Hills Gardens, Queens (New York)

Age: 38

She was the owner of the Beetle in which Carl Denaro was shot. According to the police reports from the time, she drove the car back to the bar where she had met Denaro earlier at the party (in fact, they knew each other from college, which raises some questions about the ages).

Denaro had shoulder length hair and police suspected, the shooter may have mistaken him for a girl. However, despite a lot of similar details, police didn’t made the connection to the earlier shooting of Lauria-Valenti. In fact, it appears unlikely, police would have driven the effort, they had, if Keenan’s father wouldn’t have been anything else but a 20 year veteran on New York’s police force. But still, police officer weren’t able to look over the borders of the Buroughs and so, the cases were worked by different parts of the NYPD which proved unable to talk to each other.

According to some sources, he doubted, Berkowitz was the shooter, but in the reports from the time, he claimed, he didn’t see the shooter at all.

  • 13 August 2011
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