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IMDb<\/span>Tony Costa was known in Provicetown, Massachusetts as a handsome hippie who was charming with women.<\/span><\/p>\n In 1969, police in Truro, Massachusetts unearthed the bodies of four women who had been mutilated almost beyond recognition. They were the victims of Tony Costa, who soon became known as the \u201cCape Cod Vampire.\u201d<\/p>\n Two of the women, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki, had been visiting nearby Provincetown in January when they mysteriously vanished \u2014 and they were last seen with Costa. The other two had been missing since the previous year, but they had also been connected to Costa.<\/p>\n Though the four murders were unbelievably gruesome, police didn\u2019t think the women were Costa\u2019s first victims. In fact, he may have killed as many as eight women between 1966 and 1969, though he was only convicted in the deaths of Walsh and Wysocki.<\/p>\n The true number of Costa\u2019s victims will never be known, as he died by suicide in 1974 while serving a life sentence in prison. However, due to the brutality of his known murders, he\u2019s remembered today as America\u2019s own Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n Antone Charles \u201cTony\u201d Costa was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug 2, 1944. According to an excerpt from\u00a0Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0Murderpedia<\/em>, he was caught committing his first disturbing crime when he was just 17 years old.<\/p>\n One night in November 1961, he broke into a neighbor\u2019s apartment. When the teenage girl awoke and saw Costa looming over her, she screamed and he fled.<\/p>\n Flickr\/William L. Bird<\/span>Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n Three days later, however, he returned. Costa tried to drag the girl down the stairs of the building. Neighbors intervened and detained Costa, and he was subsequently convicted of burglary and assault. He received a one-year suspended sentence and three years of probation.<\/p>\n In 1966, as reported by\u00a0The Lineup<\/em>, Tony Costa picked up two young women named Bonnie Williams and Diane Federoff and offered to give them a ride to Pennsylvania on his way to California. They were never seen again, and they\u2019re now believed to be Costa\u2019s first victims.<\/p>\n Two years later, his girlfriend in California, Barbara Spaulding, vanished on the very day Costa was leaving to return to Massachusetts. She was never seen again, either.<\/p>\n Back in Provincetown, 18-year-old Sydney Monzon disappeared in May 1968 after she was last seen getting into a car with Tony Costa. Then, that September, Costa\u2019s new lover Susan Perry vanished as well. When friends asked what happened to her, Costa told them she\u2019d \u201cgone to Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n Public Domain<\/span>Mary Anne Wysocki (left) and Patricia Walsh (right).<\/span><\/p>\n Tony Costa and his wife divorced around this time, and after a short stint in jail for failing to pay child support, he met yet another woman named Christine Gallant. Both Costa and Gallant were members of the hippie scene of the 1960s, and they frequently shared drugs. In November 1968, Gallant was found dead in her bathtub from an overdose on barbiturates.<\/p>\n Finally, on Jan. 24, 1969, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki arrived at a guest house in Provincetown for a weekend vacation to Cape Cod. The 23-year-old women had driven up from Rhode Island in Walsh\u2019s light blue Volkswagen. Upon check-in, their landlady introduced them to a young, local man who was also staying in the home: Tony Costa.<\/p>\n The morning after Walsh and Wysocki arrived in Cape Cod, their landlady noticed a note pinned to their bedroom door, as detailed by\u00a0court documents. It read, \u201cCould you possibly give me a ride to Truro early in the morning\u201d and was signed \u201cTony.\u201d<\/p>\n That same afternoon, a witness spotted Costa with the two women in a light-colored Volkswagen. The vehicle was last seen driving toward Truro. Both women failed to keep an appointment in Provincetown later that day.<\/p>\n Wikimedia Commons<\/span>Blue 1966 Volkswagen bug, similar to Walsh\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The following day, the landlady discovered another note on the door of Walsh and Wysocki\u2019s room. \u201cWe are checking out. Thank you for your many kindnesses,\u201d it read. It was signed \u201cMary Ann and Pat\u201d and written on the same type of paper as the previous day\u2019s note. The women\u2019s belongings were also missing from their room.<\/p>\n However, Walsh and Wysocki failed to return home from their weekend in Cape Cod. Their family immediately contacted police, who quickly began investigating.<\/p>\n On Feb. 2, 1969, Walsh\u2019s Volkswagen was spotted parked in a wooded area near Pine Grove Cemetery in Truro. Later that same day, Costa took the car to Boston. Despite his attempt to cover his crimes, however, police now had an idea of where they should be searching.<\/p>\n On Feb. 8, 1969, an officer searching the woods near Pine Grove Cemetery noticed an indentation in the ground. Digging down, he found a bag containing dismembered body parts. The female corpse had been separated into eight sections, but it didn\u2019t belong to Walsh or Wysocki \u2014 it was Susan Perry, who had \u201cgone to Mexico\u201d five months earlier.<\/p>\n Around the same time, police questioned Costa about Walsh and Wysocki\u2019s disappearance. He gave inconsistent answers, and he was soon frantically trying to cover his tracks.<\/p>\n On March 3, a telegram for Costa arrived at his mother\u2019s house in Provincetown. It read, \u201cWhat happened. We waited as planned. Is everything alright. We\u2019ll meet you as scheduled. New York City. Love Pat and Mary Ann.\u201d Investigators determined the telegram had originated from a New York City telephone number that Costa had access to.<\/p>\n Police continued searching the Truro woods, where Costa was known to have a large marijuana \u201cgarden.\u201d On March 5, they unearthed more remains: the torso and severed head of Mary Anne Wysocki.<\/p>\n Bill Brett\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/span>Tony Costa in custody, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n In another grave nearby was the body of Patricia Walsh, cut in half at the waist. Her skin was peeled off her chest \u201cin a fashion like a sweater, so that it was attached only about the shoulders.\u201d And beneath Walsh was the dismembered body of Sydney Monzon, the 18-year-old woman who had been missing for nearly a year.<\/p>\n Some of the bodies reportedly had bite marks on them, leading to Costa\u2019s \u201cCape Cod Vampire\u201d nickname.<\/p>\n A coroner determined Walsh and Wysocki had died from gunshot wounds to the head and neck. A .22 caliber pistol was found buried close by, which was later identified as Costa\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n Casey Sherman, a true crime author who wrote\u00a0Helltown<\/em>\u00a0about Costa, viewed photos from the scene while doing research for his book. He later recalled, \u201cThese women weren\u2019t just murdered, they were brutalized\u2026 and looked like they had been attacked by a great white shark \u2014 not a human killer.\u201d<\/p>\n He also famously referred to Costa as \u201cthe most vicious serial killer since Jack the Ripper.\u201d<\/p>\n On May 29, 1970, Costa was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki. Despite the mountains of evidence against him, Costa maintained his innocence throughout his trial.<\/p>\n Bill Brett\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/span>Twenty-four-year-old Tony Costa soon after his arrest in 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n While in prison, Costa wrote a novel called\u00a0Resurrection<\/em>\u00a0describing the murders in detail. In it, he claimed that a friend named \u201cCarl\u201d had been responsible for the deaths of Walsh and Wysocki.<\/p>\n Tony Costa was found dead in his prison cell on May 12, 1974 at the age of 29. A corrections officer making rounds discovered his lifeless body hanging by a leather belt from the upper bars of his cell. Costa\u2019s official cause of death was \u201casphyxiation by hanging \u2014 suicide.\u201d The Cape Cod Vampire took his own life, and with it the truth about how many women he\u2019d actually killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tony Costa was convicted of brutally murdering and dismembering Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki in 1969, but he’s suspected of killing as many as eight women over a three-year period. IMDbTony Costa was known in Provicetown, Massachusetts as a handsome hippie who was charming with women. In 1969, police in Truro, Massachusetts unearthed the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-true-crime","tag-true-crime"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Disturbing Early Years Of The Cape Cod Vampire<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n\nAt 18, Costa married a teenage girl and fathered three children. Over the years, his marriage fell apart, reportedly due to violence and drug use. By the mid-1960s, Costa was separated from his wife and had started keeping the company of other women \u2014 many of whom mysteriously disappeared after meeting him.<\/div>\n\nThe Strange Disappearances Connected To Tony Costa<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Disappearance Of Patricia Walsh And Mary Anne Wysocki<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n\n\nThe Depraved Crimes Of The Cape Cod Vampire<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Imprisonment And Death Of Tony Costa<\/h2>\n
\nIn an article Kurt Vonnegut wrote for\u00a0LIFE<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0in 1969, he noted that even after his arrest, Costa told police, \u201cThere\u2019s a maniac on the loose out there,\u201d in reference to the women\u2019s murders.<\/div>\n![\"Tony](\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/antone-costa-in-police-custody.jpg\")
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