Type of Crime: Mutilation and Biting
Date: 1979
Location: New York City
On October 12, 1979, the body of Francine Elveson was found nude on the roof of the Pelham Parkway housing project in the Bronx. She had sustained many injuries, consisting of being beaten, and strangled with the strap of her purse. Also, across her chest scrawled in ballpoint pen, was a message from the killer to the police, challenging them to track him down. In his frenzy he had launched a ferocious biting attack on the insides of Elveson’s thighs.
The incriminating evidence in this case were the bite marks left on Francine Elveson’s thighs. They processed the evidence by taking photographs and making casts to compare to the teeth of a possible suspect using a variety of equipment that could include infrared and ultraviolet photography, electron microscopy, even computer analysis.
The profile that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit provided of the killer was incredibly accurate. The Unit predicted that the killer was a male, aged twenty-five to thirty-five, poorly educated, probably living in the building where the attack had occurred, either alone or with a single parent, and suffering from a psychosis so acute that it would have required treatment in a mental institution. The actual profile of Calabro was that he was thirty-two years old, in the age range that the Unit gave. Calabro was also poorly educated because since he left the hospital, he had dropped out of high school, and was also living in the same building as the victim, even on the same floor. Calabro lived with a single parent; his dad, and also had a history of mental instability and had to go to the hospital for treatment. Overall, the Behavioral Science Unit provided a very accurate profile of the killer, getting almost every little detail correct.
When a single black pubic hair was found on Francine Elveson’s body, the investigators thought the hair was shed by the attacker, however, by the end of the investigation, the police had finally found out that the black hair was indeed not a hair from the killer, but from a black male murder victim Calabro had killed before he killed Francine Elveson.
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The part about the negroid pubic hair isn't accurate.
True, such a hair was found on Francine Elveson's body at autopsy, but it transpired that it came from the body of a black male homicide victim who had been transported in the same body bag. A bag that had been insufficiently cleaned between uses.
It's unlikely that Calabro had killed before the Pelham Parkway crime, (although he had most likely committed lesser offences) but if he had, his victim of choice would never be a male, black or otherwise.
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Rick Nagy said....The part about Carmine Calabro was not totally accurate. While his father Rocky Calabro, a very nice guy, lived next door to the victim, his son did not live in the building. He would only visit him on rare occasions.....I lived in the building (2215 Bronxwood Avenue)where the crime took place. It actually happened on my 12th birthday, so I will never forget the day....October 12, 1979...Francine was a small, hunchback girl who was very quiet...The killer apparently grabbed her as she went into the stairwell and dragged her to the roof landing before doing what he did to her. I remember CBS news reporter Chris Borgen had covered the story and threw up after he saw what the killer had done to the body....Very sad what happened to that girl....
Is this killer dead?
Did they ever find out why Calabro did it? Has he ever expressed remorse or apologized or has he denied everything? There isn't much information on him (Not even pictures or footage). Hopefully he's dead or still behind bars.
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