and when she, at one point, tries to escape, he threatens to kill her. he beats her, but at some point, he sort of had this change of heart. she told me she was a counselor. that s what saved her life. so it s what she told you then, is that and she talked to me. she talked to me. i mean, she talked me down. is there any way that you would not have let her go? no. i would have let her go, because she had no there was no connection. she had no connection to robert silk. mcfadden pleads not guilty to charges that he raped and assaulted jeremy brown. during his trial, mcfadden represents himself and personally cross-examines his victim. later, brown becomes an outspoken victims advocate. i am the only living victim of reginald mcfadden, a
march 26th, 1995, when police discover a badly decomposed body near a highway overpass in rockland county, new york. the victim is identified as local transient, 39-year-old dana blaze demarco. dana was sort of a free spirit, described as an artist, a drifter, so it would be very likely that she would have come in contact with mcfadden. eventually, we would learn through the autopsy that she was also killed with blunt force trauma, a fractured skull was found. there s a couple of indicators from the crime scene that suggest that mcfadden is involved. one is the type of injury, the location of the injury, the severity of the injury. as i understand it, there was a piece of jewelry that was found with other jewelry possessed by mcfadden that belonged to dana. dana s body is found not far from where mcfadden left robert silk s body.
part had been preserved and part was in a severe state of almost skeletal remains. we would learn the next day at an autopsy that robert silk had been violently bludgeoned to death. the crime scene is almost 50 miles north of silk s house, but six miles from where mcfadden lived at the time of the murder. how were you feeling when this was happening? were you angry with him? angry? i wouldn t say i wouldn t say the word angry. i think i didn t see him as a human being. he was just a jewish person. he wasn t a human being to me. they become a nonperson. and this is what has happened over the years when it comes to people that i feel as though either did me wrong personally or did my faith, islam, wrong personally. i think that he enjoyed that power and control, and clearly i
that s when i started truancy and it started escalating up to burglaries, stuff like that, going all the way up until 69. on december 9, 1969, 15-year-old reginald mcfadden commits his first murder in the well-to-do philadelphia suburb of wynnefield, not far from his mother s home. he and three other juveniles break into the house of 60-year-old sonia rosenbaum. we went in the house thinking no one was home. but what happened was that one of us goes upstairs. and mrs. rosenbaum was in the bedroom upstairs and she started hollering. we gagged her and tied her up and we fled the house. but because of her age, she died of suffocation, and they arrest us like two, three days later, they arrest all of us. the crime makes the front
jeremy brown is the mother of two and lives not on fairmont avenue, but another street just a quarter mile from mcfadden s home. reggie s explanation for coming into contact with jeremy brown revolving around essentially his hunt for robert silk s alleged girlfriend. it fits in the story because it allows reggie then to get down to jeremy brown s address, what he thought was the girlfriend s address, which was actually the transposed address of jeremy brown. well, what s the likelihood of that? so when you get to this address that you think is robert silk s girlfriend, what do you do there? do you wait? do you watch? robert wasn t there, obviously. this isn t his girlfriend. it was clear it wasn t robert. she had no connection to robert. so, i decided to release her. you did? i decided to release her. i figured she didn t know who i was. she didn t see me.