Word: zielinsky
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second wife's mother, who lived with the couple, remembers often complaining of a foul smell in the house, "like dead rats." Gacy's ex-wife admits, "I think now, if there were murders, some must have taken place when I was in that house." Martin Zielinski, a friend, recalls being puzzled when Gacy once told him, "I do a lot of rotten, horrible things, but I do a lot of good things...
...details with Prosecutor Edward Fitz-patrick and Judge Morris Pashman. A detailed scenario was agreed upon, and last week in court Smith went through the routine. Though normally a man of closely guarded emotions, he became flushed and strained during the judge's questioning. Did he murder Victoria Zielinski? "I did," he said in a voice so low that spectators had to strain to hear. Was anyone else involved? "No." After dozens of other questions nailed down details, the case was closed. "I'm satisfied beyond any question, beyond any doubt," said Judge Pashman in accepting a plea...
Smith dropped out of high school twice and then joined the Marines; when his hitch was up, he returned to drift from job to job in northern New Jersey. When the body of a 15-year-old high school student named Victoria Zielinski, from Ramsey, was found partially clothed, her head crushed, Smith was brought in for questioning. After a day of intensive interrogation-without legal counsel-he gave police an oral statement that the Bergen County prosecutor's office claimed was an unsigned confession. Smith disavowed it during his trial, but he was convicted after less than...