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...Garage. Victim No. 4 was a gentleman named Jerzy de Laveaux who lived in the apartment above Mazurkiewicz and possessed, among other things, a 42-lb. solid gold bar, a ten-carat diamond worth $5,000 and perhaps $10.000 in American greenbacks (the standard black-market medium). Mazurkiewicz invited him into the woods to swap currencies, then murdered him and dumped his body in the river...
With his eye on the balance of De Laveaux's wealth, Mazurkiewicz began to woo his widow. Rebuffed at first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
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