A New Book Revisits the Serial Killer Who Stalked NYC’s Early ’90s Gay Piano Bars
Reading
Last Call, reporter Elon Green’s immersive reconstruction of the murders of four gay men that began (mostly) with encounters in Manhattan’s gay piano bars of the early- to mid-1990s, I was struck by the fact that though I moved to Manhattan at that time, fully immersed in the gay scene, I had basically zero recollection of these hideous crimes. And that, says Green, comports with the legacy of what the tabloids at the time called the Last Call Killer. “To give you a sense of how little remembered these cases are,” he says, “in the three recent years I was working on the book, I only met one person not directly connected to the events who knew about them.”