while searching for the person responsible for the brutal axe attack, investigators first tried to uncover the motive. we don t have axe murderers here. it was just an alarming, tremendously alarming case. police learned that peter porco had a relative in organized crime who d been in trouble with the law. the relative is frank porco, known as frankie the fireman porco. frankie porco was serving time in federal prison for loan-sharking. there were rumors that frankie porco would provide state s evidence and information in return for a lighter sentence. it was what they call a signature killing, you know, that the mob would do, and it was a fireman s ax because it was retaliation for frankie the fireman. but a background check on frankie the fireman put doubt on this theory. he was in prison because he
for 52-year-old peter porco, a clerk for an appeals judge, it was the perfect way to end his legal career, until one day, everything changed. it started off as any other day until peter porco didn t show up for work. and people began to get worried, because that wasn t like him. a court officer went to the porcos home and immediately saw signs of trouble. he walked up to the front of the house, and in the door, he saw a key, a key by itself in the door lock. the door was ajar. he looks down and he sees on the cement steps drops of blood. inside was a bloodbath. he looked over to his right and he saw a body laying there whom he recognized as peter porco. peter porco had been bludgeoned to death. it was a scene of shocking horror, something that most people who saw it find it difficult to talk about. upstairs in the master
then police learned that peter porco had once received a death threat. it was from a man who lost custody of his children in a case before the new york state supreme court. the man had vowed revenge. the man told him he was going to get a gun and he was going to come and kill the judge and peter porco. but that man had an alibi for the night of the murder. then there was an anonymous letter sent to the local newspaper from someone claiming to be peter porco s killer. peter porco was not even a challenge. once i got inside, i repeatedly hit him in the head and neck with a small axe i brought with me. i ignored all his pleading screams. also, i beat joan porco, but unfortunately, she survived. the writer took credit for
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he cut the phone lines into the house at 4:59, then drove back to the campus in full view of the cameras at 8:30 a.m. perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the case was that peter porco regained consciousness and walked through the house after the attack, even going outside for the morning paper before he died in the foyer. there still remain unanswered questions. i think one of the main questions that we just don t have the answer to is where are the bloody clothes? and why did joan porco implicate christopher on the morning of the attack, but had no recollection of it following surgery? it s not uncommon when you have a head injury to lose memory in the time surrounding the event.