On January 5, 1957, Bernard "Buster" Speyer and his wife, Ruth, both residents of Meriden, Connecticut, visited a shoe store in East Haven. Unbeknownst to them, the store was being targeted by two notorious criminals: Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky and his accomplice, Arthur "Meatball" Culombe. Earlier that day, Taborsky had entered the store under the pretense of purchasing size 12 shoes. He and Culombe then violently assaulted the store owner, Frank Adinolfi, by pistol-whipping him and leaving him
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