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| name = Tony Costa | image = Tony Costa (murderer).png | image_size = | caption = | alt = | alias = | birth_name = Antone Charles Costa | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|08|02}}[1] | birth_place= Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|05|12|1944|08|02}} | death_place = Walpole, Massachusetts, U.S. | cause = Suicide by hanging | conviction = 3 counts murder | sentence = Life imprisonment | victims = At Least 4 | beginyear = 1968 | endyear = 1969 | country = United States | states = Massachusetts | apprehended = 1969 }} Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944 – May 12, 1974) was an American carpenter who achieved notoriety for committing serial murders in and around the town of Truro in 1969. 1969 murdersThe case gained international attention when district attorney Edmund Dinis, in comments to the media, claimed "The hearts of each girl had been removed from the bodies and were not in the graves…Each body was cut into as many parts as there are joints." Dinis also claimed that there were teeth marks found on the bodies. These claims produced a stream of national and international media outlets into local Provincetown, Massachusetts.[2] The media attention was so great that Kurt Vonnegut (whose daughter Edith had met Costa) compared him to Jack the Ripper in his collection of essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons.[2] Vonnegut maintained a correspondence with Costa. The author said, "The message of his letters to me was that a person as intent on being virtuous as he could not possibly have hurt a fly. He believed it."[3] Costa was suspected of killing seven women: Bonnie Williams, Diane Federoff, Barbara Spaulding, Sydney Monson, Susan Perry, Patricia Walsh, and Mary Anne Wysocki but convicted of killing only two: Walsh and Wysocki. On February 8, 1969, while looking for the bodies of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki, police discovered Susan Perry. Perry had been missing since the previous Labor Day.[4] Perry's body had been cut into eight pieces. When Wysocki's body was found about a month later, her torso and head had been buried separately. Not long after, Walsh and the rest of Wysocki's body were found in a forest clearing that Costa had used for growing marijuana.[4] This "garden" of marijuana plants and the greater case inspired the true crime book In His Garden, by Leo Damore.[4] Costa's accountCosta described the murders of Walsh and Wysocki in his unpublished novel, Resurrection, written while Costa was in prison. In his account, Costa and a friend named "Carl" were out with the two women consuming LSD and Dilaudid. Carl then shot Walsh and Wysocki. Costa claimed he was able to subdue his friend, and upon realizing that Mary Anne Wysocki was still alive, Costa used a knife to end her suffering. According to Costa, he and Carl buried the bodies.[5] The novel also describes the deaths of Susan Perry and Sydney Monzon as due to drug overdoses. Costa claims it was Carl who dismembered and buried their bodies and that he had no knowledge until after their deaths.[4] Trial and imprisonmentOn June 12, 1969, Costa was arraigned on charges of murder for three of the deaths.[6] In May 1970 he was convicted of the murders of Mary Ann Wysocki and Patricia Walsh and sentenced to life in prison at Massachusetts' Walpole Correctional Institution. Four years after his incarceration, Costa committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.[7] References1. ^{{cite book |title=In His Garden |publisher=Dell |year=1981 |first=Leo |last=Damore |isbn=0-440-20707-X |page=245}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Tony}}2. ^Vonnegut, Kurt (1974). Wampeters, Foma and Granfaloons. Dell Publishing, {{ISBN|0-385-33381-1}}. 3. ^Vonnegut, Kurt (1981). Palm Sunday. Delacorte Press, {{ISBN|0-440-06593-3}}. 4. ^1 2 3 4 Albright, EJ. "The Tony Costa Cape Cod murders" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721094654/http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2007/09/11/the_tony_costa_cape_cod_murders?blog=149 |date=2011-07-21 }}. Cape Cod Confidential. CapeCodToday.com 9 November 2007. 5. ^Costa, Antone. [https://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2015/03/06/2471-March-6-1969-Tony-Costa-arraigned-16-Cape-Cod-murders The Apocalypse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003172538/https://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2015/03/06/2471-March-6-1969-Tony-Costa-arraigned-16-Cape-Cod-murders |date=2015-10-03 }}. Cape Cod Today. 16 March 2015. 6. ^Coleman, Jack. "Today in Cape history: Tony Costa arraigned in Truro murders”{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}. Cape Cod Confidential. CapeCodToday.com 12 June 2008. 7. ^Damore, Leo (1981). In His Garden. 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