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whether he meant for murder, he replied "You'll find out." In jail again, Kudzinowski was interviewed by
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Storelli's murder to his jailer, who laughed at him. Kudzinowski was released after sobering up. On December 3, 1928, Kudzinowski drunkenly staggered up to a police traffic booth and told the officer there that he was wanted by the police. Upon being asked
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After the two of them had an altercation over a bottle of whiskey, Kudzinowski crushed Quinn's head with a rock. Kudzinowski's older brother later recalled that
Kudzinowski came to visit him, told him he had been in a scrape, and needed money to leave town, without mentioning what had actually
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on August 19, 1928, although after he was captured, he told reporters he "had doubts" that he had actually murdered her. He lured her away from her parents before strangling her to death and dismembering her body, which was then disposed of in the
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Gaffney. Kudzinowski and Fish committed their crimes in the same time span and geographic area, and both killed children. He was also a suspect in the murder of Irving Pickelny, who disappeared from
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638:"Julia Mlodzianowski Abducted Aug 19th, 1928"
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1048:"Kudzinowski Re-enacts Murder"
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364:New Jersey Meadowlands
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311:Spring Brook Township
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