Luis Ortiz, a nine-year-old Puerto Rican male, vanished in Manhattan on March 6, 1973 after being sent on a simple errand to a nearby corner store for groceries. When he did not come home, worry turned quickly into dread. By the time he was found, his body had been left in a basement stairwell at 200 West 106th Street. Investigators described a frenzied, brutal attack: he had been stabbed dozens of times, and the injuries included grotesque mutilation that made the crime feel less like a random
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