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On April 12, 1982, Robert W. Schulze, a 58-year-old White man and CBS employee, was shot dead on the rooftop parking lot at Pier 92 in Manhattan. Schulze and two coworkers confronted a masked man who was dragging a woman’s limp body toward a van; the masked gunman then turned and shot each of the three men in the head at close range before fleeing. A fourth coworker who lagged behind escaped and drove away. The next morning the woman, Margaret Barbera, was found dead elsewhere in Manhattan, making four deaths tied to that single burst of gunfire.

Investigators connected the killings to a broader plot involving the Candor Diamond Corporation and a federal investigation into alleged fraud. The suspect identified was Donald Nash, who also used the name Donald J. Bowers; .22-caliber evidence, shell casings, and the getaway van linked him to the scene. Nash was arrested while driving the van and prosecutors pursued a murder-for-hire theory, asserting the CBS employees were killed because they interrupted an attempted abduction. Nash was convicted of four counts of second-degree murder and conspiracy on May 24, 1983, and sentenced to 100 years; the man accused of commissioning the killings, Irwin Margolies, received a long prison term in subsequent proceedings.

Did anyone who worked at Pier 92 or with the CBS crew that night ever share details about unusual visitors or deliveries in the days before April 12, 1982?