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i think that reggie felt that in a sense the system betrayed him because his sentence for the same crime of the murder of sonia rosenbaum was, in his mind, much greater than his cohorts. in actuality, everybody took a plea bargain. he went to trial, so he ended up getting a more severe sentence. i vowed that wherever i got out of jail, i would pay frank rizzo and his party back for what they did to me. we have criminals walking our streets that will never be rehabilitated, cannot be rehabilitated, and should be put in prison. the overarching focus for him was frank rizzo, and for 24 years in prison, that feeling festered. in 1993, he died of a heart attack on the campaign trail. ....
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 ....
Page of the philadelphia enquir enquirer which reports that three of the four suspects were arrested after mrs. rosenbaum s nude body was found tied up with a washcloth stuffed down her throat. everybody agrees that the death was accidental. it wasn t intentional. but because of the pennsylvania law of felony homicide, they tried all of us as adults. in the rosenbaum crime, he minimizes his role in this, that he didn t do it, he didn t commit the homicide, he didn t know this was going to happen, wasn t his plan, but that s very typical of an individual like this because really they re looking out for their own best interests. so very easy to blame everybody else. mcfadden s crime becomes a touchstone issue during then police commissioner frank l. rizzo s campaign to become mayor. he vowed to the jewish community he was going to send me away for life. i was only 17 years old. ....
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 sufficient indication, and ....
Arrested after mrs. rosenbaum s nude body was found tied up with a wash cloth stuffed down her throat. everybody agrees that the death was accidental. it wasn t intentional. but because of the laws of felony homicide, they tried all of us as adults. in the rosenbaum crime, he minimizes his role in this, that he didn t do it, he didn t commit the homicide, he didn t know this was going to happen, wasn t his plan, but that s very typical of an individual like this because really, they re looking out for their own best interests. so, very easy to blame everybody else. mcfadden s crime becomes a touchstone issue during then frank l. rizzo s campaign to become mayor. he vowed to the jewish community he was going to send me away for life. i was only 17 years old. i think that reggie felt that, in a sense, the system betrayed him because his ....