We begin our October episodes with a look at a legend that turned out to be horrifyingly true. Cropsey was a spooky story every Staten Island child knew, an elusive serial killer living in the woods. But even scarier than the story was the chilling reality.
Resources:
- Andre Rand, The Man Behind Staten Island’s ‘Cropsey’ Murders
- Alice Pereira – The Charley Project
- Andre Rand | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
- Holly Ann Hughes – The Charley Project
- Tiahease Tiawanna Jackson – The Charley Project
- Ethel Louise Atwell – The Charley Project
- Henry Gafforio – The Charley Project
- Audrey Lyn Nerenberg – The Charley Project
- Cropsey: New York’s Terrifying Urban Legend – Historic Mysteries
- Andre Rand | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
- S.I. ‘HANNIBAL LECTER’ SEX PERV GUILTY OF KIDNAP | New York Post
- The Crimes of Andre Rand: Urban Legend Turned True Life. | Criminal
- Cropsey (2009), Directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio
- Cropsey: Legend and Truth Behind the Child Killer – HubPages
- Incarcerated Lookup
- Cropsey: The Urban Legend That Became a True Crime Nightmare –
- The Legend of Cropsey — Astonishing Legends
- The terrifying urban legend that became all too real in 1988
