In a notable concession to the overriding paranoia of the era, the maintenance worker was advised to take an AIDS test, even though he hadn’t come in direct contact with blood.Ī little over a year later, a second dismembered body was discovered wrapped in bags off a remote New Jersey highway. On a Sunday afternoon in May 1991, a maintenance worker emptying garbage barrels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike made a grisly discovery: Wrapped inside eight knotted trash bags was the mutilated body of a 54-year-old man, killed by stab wounds to the abdomen, his severed penis shoved in his mouth. LAST CALL A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York By Elon Green
