18: Cropsey

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of ‘Cropsey.’ For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Later as teenagers, the filmmakers assumed Cropsey was just an urban legend. That all changed in the summer of 1987 when a 12-year-old girl disappeared from their community. The police quickly connected this disappearance to several other children who'd gone missing in the area. The hunt for the abductor would lead authorities to the real-life boogeyman living in their midst.

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0:57.0	Well, it does take place on Staten Island. So the accents are there. We'll say that. They are there.
1:05.2	Growing up on Staten Island, Barbara Nia often heard the legend of Cropsey.
1:11.1	You're supposed to have a hook and accident. Knife about this big. Cropsey was the escape
1:15.2	mental patient who lived in the tunnels beneath the old band and Willowbrook mental institution.
1:19.8	Who'd come out late at night, snatch children off the streets. I would have never
1:25.3	guessed it would have a mountain. The amount of weirdos living on Staten Island. It might
1:28.4	be somebody on your block. It might be somebody you work with. Here's this guy going around
1:33.3	picking off these kids. I can imagine how other parents, even if your kids gone for an hour,
1:38.6	I can imagine how they must feel. That's probably the one of the last things that you have to
1:42.6	think about, and that somebody would take you to it. It seemed like everywhere I went,
1:46.9	there were people out in the woods looking for that little girl. It's no question if we were
1:52.1	going to find her. We definitely were going to find her. She thinks we're picking at
1:56.0	that children's bones. We just want clothes, you're wrong. That's all.
2:00.6	What was that? I heard something.
2:04.8	It's scary because we have a buggy man living on Staten Island, all those years.
2:14.0	That image forced a lot of people to say that is the killer. There's no reason for him
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