A87star, thanks for hunting down and contributing these very helpful news clippings which add some buried facts. For one, all of these rape, mutilation and murders of these young boys occurred not under the cover of darkness, but in broad daylight. At least 4 of the incidents occurred on rooftops in full view of the surrounding buildings and voyeurs, where noticeable screams (unless the children were drugged) would be heard even over the usual urban cacophony. The perpetrator(s) were exceptionally vicious, sadistic and seems to have carried out nearly every violation they could on their victims. They also performed the same ritual of removing the shoes of each of the victims and placing them neatly next to their bodies. These Ripper-like atrocities took time with malice aforethought, just how was the killer able to walk away with obvious blood upon their person in daylight? Also, there had to have been bloodied footprints left along with a blood-spotted trail left in the immediate aftermath. Why wasn't this used to help track down the monster who had to have lived nearby? The perpetrator in the un-named boy incident, carried out his atrocities on the roof and then carried him down to the hallway where he was discovered by a neighbour. The 10 year-old victim had been sodomised, castrated and stabbed repeatedly in the neck and back which would have left the attacker shockingly covered in blood.
Erno Soto may or may not have committed the Steven Cropper atrocity, but one fact that is known is the maimed, un-named child who survived, utterly refused to state Soto was his attacker and asserted emphatically that it was another man. It seems rather convenient to lay all the blame on a pathological psychopath, lacking in cognitive mental capacity and as you'll see later below, there may be a reason. Soto took all the blame, much like David Berkowitz did after his arrest. In the above article it states "Witnesses in the unsolved murder cases have been asked to look at Soto in lineups, but the results have not been divulged". That's key, and can only be explained as being due to the results failing match the fit-up narrative being constructed to make Soto the fall guy.
Also, does anyone else reviewing this case find it odd that one of the primary detectives in the case is literally named Klan? I think it provides some insight into the calloused, almost spiteful and indifferent mindset of the NYPD district commanders to assign a Detective Sergeant Edmund L. Klan Jr. to a case involving the murders of African-American and Latino children.
In the article 'Parents Demand Police Press Hunt for Killer Pervert', it stated “In addition to murder and mutilation, numerous children in the area have been accosted on the streets by a man described as between five-feet-8 and five-feet-10, 37 to 40 years old, with a slim build and gray hair”. Then it goes on immediately to describe the suspect (in a literary way that almost conflates the two) as possibly of Hispanic origin, has a small bump or mole on his left cheek and a series of pock marks on his chin. These are the descriptions of two different perpetrators, targeting the exact same neighbourhoods and racial demographic of child.
Note, Steven Cropper the final victim, was found on a roof in a completely different part of the city from the rest of the Charlie Chop-Off victims, at 323/325 East Houston Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The other 4 victims were located on the upper West and East Side of Manhattan roughly 8 miles uptown. The Boy's Club of NYC (BCNY) is located at 135 Pitt Street just a 2-minute walk around the corner and down the street from the building's roof of 323/325 East Houston Street where Cropper's body was found. BCNY at Pitt Street was also a favourite haunt of artist Keith Haring who was a known pal and consort of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Polaroid of Keith Haring with members of the Boy’s Club,
Pitt Street, New York City, 1987
According to eyewitness Jose Rosa, alleged friend of Steven Cropper's, both of the youth used to go to the Boy's Club on Pitt Street where Steven once confided in him that a man approached him offering him candy. I believe that Cropper was attacked by a different perpetrator, piggy-backing off the Charlie Chop-Off crimes, as police reports state Cropper was not castrated and was reportedly not raped. He was however slashed to death with a razor, with an X carved deeply from his shoulders to the sides of his abdomen. Someone obviously doing so to leave a specific message of sorts. The Boy's Clubs of New York was originally established by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman (paedo red flag!) who was once quoted as saying "Cooperation means 'Do as I say, and do it damn quick.'" E.H. Harriman is the father of banker and proxy Nazi financier Averill Harriman.
Finally, allow us to examine the dates of the incidents which align reasonably close to known dates of satanic significance with the exception of Steven Cropper:
• Douglas Owens - March 9, 1972, although the New York Time listed it as March 4th.
• Un-named boy who Survived - April 20th, 1972
• Wendell Hubbard - October 23rd, 1972
• Luis Ortiz - March 6th, 1973
• Steven Cropper - August 17th, 1973