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When he left the dormitory one after noon last month, University of Pennsylvania Freshman John Walker Green III said he was going to view a collection of rare pipes owned by Campus Tobacconist Stephen Zachary Weinstein. Next day, when Green had not returned to his dorm in Philadelphia, a search was begun, and Weinstein reported that the student had never shown up. Last week Green's body was found in a green steamer trunk bobbing in the Delaware River...
...autopsy showed that Green, 18, son of a Des Moines physician, had been drugged, strangled and sexually assaulted. When police went back to question Weinstein, they discovered he had fled. In the next several days, as half a dozen students came forth to describe their own encounters with Weinstein, it became apparent that the chubby, jolly co-owner of Ye Olde Tobacconist shop was more than just a friendly neighborhood storekeeper...
Police charged that Bachelor Weinstein, 29, was in the habit of striking up friendships with students, then drugging them and, while they were barely conscious, torturing and assaulting them homosexually...
...Jobs. James Hammell, 14, a Philadelphia high school student who performed odd jobs for Weinstein, told police last week that he walked into the tobacco shop on the day of Green's disappearance and found him unconscious on the floor. "Weinstein wanted me to kill the boy but I wouldn't," said Hammell. Instead, they tried to revive him by holding spirits of ammonia under his nose and splashing him with apple cider. According to Hammell, Weinstein then poured the spirits of ammonia down Green's throat, causing him to go into convulsions...
Hammell, who then left the shop, said that Weinstein told him next day he had killed Green "by choking him and hitting him in the head with a board." Weinstein gave him $50 to help stuff the body into a trunk and load it in a rented car, Hammell told police. Then Weinstein, Hammell and two teenage friends drove into the countryside to find a burial place. Hammell said that the ground was either too muddy or too hard, and they decided to return to Philadelphia and throw the trunk in the river...