early pic of sweat
Sweat was a mapper and a planner.
Sweat was no stranger to Smith's courtroom. In a 1996 crime, he and a friend planned an elaborate theft of computers and cash from a youth-group home in Binghamton. The plan involved tying up a woman and locking her in a storage room.
A counselor saw them before they could carry out their plans and the police were called.
What made the crime stand out was that it had been plotted on paper, complete with a sketch of the group home and the location of the computers and money.
Four days after Sweat's July 6, 2002, arrest for Tarsia's murder, police searched bags of garbage left on the back porch of an apartment at 15 Dickinson St., Binghamton. Buried with urine-filled soda bottles and the other detritus of Sweat's life was a hand-drawn map.
It was a sketch of Mess' Fireworks, a Great Bend, Pa., gunshop and fireworks business, marked by Sweat's fingerprint.
Sweat turned to marijuana dealing. Nabinger smoked it. Both were occasionally homeless. Both flitted from woman to woman. Sweat fathered a child.
Sweat had once told Roger M. Henry, his mother's boyfriend, that he used a scanner to help him evade police and that "if the cops came for him, he'd blow them away," Henry told police.
"Sweat said if he ever was stopped after a crime, he would do the same thing to avoid going back to prison,"
The camper was part of a plan that Sweat and Nabinger had, a witness said. They would live in the camper in the woods behind
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