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Death of kidnapped boy in 1921 still resonates
What paper-mill worker John Prosta stumbled across on the western shore of the Hudson River on June 11, 1921, just south of where the Tappan Zee Bridge is now, shocked him.
Lying on some rocks, bloated and discolored, was the body of 5-year-old Joseph Varotta. About three weeks earlier, after getting a penny from his mother, the child had disappeared from his Manhattan neighborhood. Almost...
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