Aldo Serini, a 70-year-old white man, died on September 23, 1993, inside the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport on Long Island, where he had been placed in the hands of people sworn to heal. In the rhythm of a hospital day—medication rounds, quiet conversations in corridors, the steady beep of machines—nothing about his final hours was supposed to look like a crime. But in later court accounts, the end of his life would be described not as a natural decline, but as a killing carrie
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