Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

Author:Casey Sherman [Sherman, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, Murder, Serial Killers, History, United States, State & Local, New England (CT; MA; ME; NH; RI; VT), Abductions; Kidnappings & Missing Persons
ISBN: 9781728245966
Google: pkFzEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2022-07-12T23:20:13.526416+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

State police lieutenant Bernie Flynn had just entered the barracks in Yarmouth for what would be another long, slogging day on the case when he was handed a letter sent from Bridgewater Hospital and written by the accused killer himself. Tony Costa was now pleading for a meeting with investigators.

“I have done much thinking concerning this ugly crime I am accused of,” Costa wrote. “I have some information which will be of utmost importance to both of us. There is a maniac running loose out there. We may both benefit since you want the correct man and I want my freedom. God Bless. Go in Peace. Tony Costa, 10910 F-Ward.”1

When Maurice Goldman learned about the correspondence, he was furious. The defense attorney drove to the mental hospital for the first face-to-face meeting with his client since the two had been introduced at Costa’s job site weeks before. Goldman was joined by his colleague Justin Cavanaugh, and despite their outrage, the two men tried to remain cordial when speaking with their new high-profile client.

Cavanaugh recorded the first formal interview session with Costa, while Goldman led the questioning.

“Would you tell us what you said in the letter?” Goldman asked.

“I simply requested that Flynn come and visit if he had the chance because I wanted to find out if he had, you know, either been investigating some of these other people, or just dropping this whole thing in my lap,” Costa replied. “I would refer them to you people of course so that he could get information from you or whatever necessary to continue this thing rather than just stopping it here because there is someone else out there, that’s a maniac or something, and this has happened many times, this crime, and what’s to say this isn’t going to happen again if they do nothing, if they just sit still, and you know, don’t do a damn thing about it. That has bothered me. It got to me, so I had to write it.”2

Goldman shifted in his chair and loosened his tie. The heat was stifling inside the small office they had been given by the warden. Yet Costa remained cool, both physically and mentally, and detached from the horrors he had committed.

“Well then, your inquiry was for a determination to what the district attorney’s office was going to do with respect to try to find out who’s committing these horrible crimes out there. Is that the sole purpose?”

“That’s the only purpose, yes,” Costa replied. “Just to see if they were doing anything, so that this thing won’t happen again, because I didn’t do it. I know for a fact that there’s someone else out there that did do it. You know, there’s a, God forbid, it may happen again. And you know I just don’t want to see it.”

“That’s the reason I’m asking to record this, Tony, so we’ll know exactly what it is, so I can tell ’em in response. Uh, when you say that terrible thing, you mean the selling of dope or do you mean the death of these girls?”

“The death of these girls.

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