John Rescigno, a 62-year-old man, was a white resident of Astoria, Queens, whose final hours unfolded in the thick of a New York summer weekend in 1960. On the evening of July 3, he crossed paths with a stranger who seemed down on his luck�Frederick Charles Wood, a recently paroled felon drifting through Manhattan and panhandling for cash�then shared drinks with him and brought him back to the small home Rescigno shared with an elderly roommate.
What happened inside that Astoria residenc
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