John Rescigno, a 62-year-old man, was a white resident of Astoria, Queens, whose final hours unfolded in the thick of a New York summer weekend in 1960. On the evening of July 3, he crossed paths with a stranger who seemed down on his luck—Frederick Charles Wood, a recently paroled felon drifting through Manhattan and panhandling for cash—then shared drinks with him and brought him back to the small home Rescigno shared with an elderly roommate.
What happened inside that Astoria resi
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