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Red Collar

The CBS Murders

Red Collar

audiochuck

True Crime

4.46.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1982 New York City, a woman is kidnapped from a parking garage in broad daylight. As police hunt the hitman they find five dead bodies, a secret lesbian love affair and millions of dollars in missing diamonds. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.

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0:00.0

It was April 12, 1982, a pretty unseasonably cold and snowy Easter Monday in Midtown Manhattan

0:09.7

when police got the call.

0:11.9

There were three dead bodies at a rooftop parking garage on Pier 92, and a woman had been

0:17.7

kidnapped.

0:19.5

Now this was well before what I call the Sex and the City era in New York City.

0:24.0

We're going back to the taxi driver period.

0:27.8

Midtown Manhattan was full of pimps and sex workers and crime at that time.

0:33.0

In fact, according to Richard Hammers book The CBS Murders, a true account of greed and

0:37.5

violence.

0:38.5

There were more than 10 murders a week in Manhattan during this time period.

0:43.1

The drama started to unfold shortly before 6 p.m.

0:46.6

When three guys who worked for CBS Studios on 57th Street, Leo Kurnicki, Robert Schultz,

0:53.2

and Edward Benford, all left work together.

0:56.8

These guys were all engineering techs for the network.

1:00.3

They said they're goodbyes and they headed west toward the rooftop parking garage at Pier 92

1:06.2

on 54th Street.

1:08.3

It was just an ordinary work day for these guys.

1:11.2

They got to their garage and started walking toward their cars.

1:14.8

And that's when they saw the man in the ski mask dragging the limp body of a young woman

1:20.1

toward a white Volkswagen van.

1:22.8

Now at the same time, another colleague of theirs, a guy named Angela Sica, was walking behind

1:28.1

them.

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