In the summer of 1979, the quiet community of Wassaic, New York, was shaken by the violent death of a 78-year-old woman, Claudine Eggers Fischer. Her life came to a brutal end when she was repeatedly stabbed inside the trailer she shared with her husband. The events following her death would unravel a story of a confessed killer and a cross-country crime spree.
The day after the murder, on June 27, 1979, a 50-year-old man named Joseph Fischer walked into the West 100th Street police preci
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