Word: lamarca
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...been arrested two years before in a police raid on a bootleg still. Included in the LaMarca file were documents that LaMarca himself had signed in green ink. The agents rushed their evidence to field headquarters, where technicians made their analysis...
...added up the clues: LaMarca's car registration showed that he owned a 1948 Plymouth of the type that youngsters had seen in the vicinity of the Weinberger home on the day of the kidnaping. The kidnaper had left some old auto-seat covers, had instructed the Weinbergers to leave the ransom under them; these covers, the FBI learned, had been manufactured to fit the seats of a 1948 Plymouth. Finally, though not conclusively, the notepaper had been traced to a supplier in the general vicinity...
Glint of a Pin. The addition done, the FBI and police arrested swarthy Angelo John LaMarca, 31, in Plainview, five miles from the Weinberger home. At headquarters LaMarca, sometime mechanic and cab driver and the father of two children, stolidly confessed. Two months before the kidnaping, he said, he had moved his family into a new $15,000 split-level home. He was broke, and the bills were piling up. He needed $2,000. On the Fourth of July he decided that a kidnaping was the only...
Taking the baby to a thicket less than half a mile from his Plainview home, he laid him down on the ground in a chill, drizzling rain, abandoned him. Within a few days, though he could no longer bargain with the Weinbergers, LaMarca sent them another ransom note, telephoned them at least once-but Morris Weinberger and his wife somehow never made direct contact with...
...After LaMarca told his story, police and federal agents moved out to seek corroboration. Lined up an arm's length apart, 60 searchers began their slow walk through the thicket. After an hour FBI Agent J. Robert Boger, on his hands and knees in the underbrush, caught the glint of a safety pin. He groped again through a mass of brush and vines, found fragments of clothing, then found what Nassau County's medical examiner later identified as "the remains of an infant child...