On February 11, 1927, winter sat heavy over Brooklyn, and in the hallway outside an apartment building near 99 Fifteenth Street, William “Billy” Gaffney, a 4-year-old white male, was last seen in the ordinary blur of neighbor life—children playing where adults could hear them but not quite see them. A 12-year-old neighbor stepped away briefly, and in that small gap of time the hallway swallowed two of the children. One was recovered soon after, alone and frightened on the roof, but Billy d
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