1982: "On July 26, Patricia Shea, a 40-year-old physician's assistant from Rockaway, Queens, was found strangled in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The police said that Miss Shea had been killed elsewhere and her fully clothed body dumped in the park."
WOMAN, KILLED BY STRANGLING, FOUND OFF PIER (Published 1982)
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This victim was a very girlish looking 40s. She'd been out that day with a platonic male friend and went to help a stroke patient later in the evening. She went to help this person and was never seen alive again. "...a jogger in
Prospect Park saw Pat’s body in the bushes just off of Center Drive on the Windsor Terrace side. There was little effort made to hide her body. Detectives note that she was
hog-tied, including her neck. Her
lower body was in a 'brown sack.' Pat had been
strangled with the thin nylon chord that was tied around her whole body, and a man’s shirt was found next to her." That would have been 7/26/82
So there were several murders around this time, some in the area refer to this killer as Jack the Strangler, and he's never been caught. Associated with:
Sheryl Guida, 22, found earlier than Patricia Shea, March 18 near Coney Island, she was a sex worker, also strangled; VA tourist
Rita Nixon, 31, found near Chinatown strangled with electrical cord, wrapped in blanket, found July 15;
Gloria DeLeon, 32 found near Manhattan Bridge where Rita Nixon had been found, she was also a sex worker, found July 19;
unidentified woman found floating off 69th St. Pier, also strangled, she was found shortly after Patricia Shea. "The woman had been
beaten about the head and body, according to a medical examiner's report, and there were ligature marks on her ankles, indicating that her feet had also been bound."
www.nytimes.com
So someone actually sent a letter to the police in 2021 re: Patricia Shea's murder. Here's the letter:
I absolutely think RH may have had a hand in this. The letter's RH all over. The hogtie aspect. The brown cloth (burlap like?) aspect. The date Patricia Shea's body was found was 07261982
July 26 1982
07261982
Compare that to 080672 (thawk) All the numbers are there. There's an extra "2" in PS's date. So maybe RH committed two of these murders, or maybe he's referencing the idea that two were SWs.
It's jmo, but I'd swear I see the hand of RH in that. Whoever sent that letter sent it nearly three decades after Patricia Shea's murder.