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Growing up on Staten Island, Barb and I had often heard the legend of Cropsey. For the kids in our neighborhood, Cropsey was an escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels beneath the old Willowbrook mental institution, who would come out late at night, snatch children off the streets. Although we didn't know each other as children, Barb and I had both shared versions of the Cropsey legend, as it filtered through our separate neighborhoods, and seeped into our collective fears. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he wielded a bloody axe, but it didn't matter, Cropsey *was* out there lurking in the shadows, waiting to get us
Growing up on Staten Island, Barb and I had often heard the legend of Cropsey. For the kids in our neighborhood, Cropsey was an escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels beneath the old Willowbrook mental institution, who would come out late at night, snatch children off the streets. Although we didn't know each other as children, Barb and I had both shared versions of the Cropsey legend, as it filtered through our separate neighborhoods, and seeped into our collective fears. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he wielded a bloody axe, but it didn't matter, Cropsey *was* out there lurking in the shadows, waiting to get us
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Tiahease Jackson?
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All these people you knew
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growing up on Staten Island, and
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they all were disappearing.
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What did you think?
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I didn't think anything
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because I was too young.
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And now that I am older, I came
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here to do what I got to do, and
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I feel a whole lot better now.
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Mr. Rand, what do you have to say
to the Staten Island community?
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And that's 675 Tysens Lane.
This is it, yeah. 30 years ago.
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Alice lived here with...
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Her mother, who had multiple
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sclerosis, was about 26 years
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old at the time.
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And, of course, there's Andre Rand, would
stand right there all the time, right where
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that door is.
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And he was a maintenance man
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and where was the father at
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They were separated.
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They were separated for about
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three years, and that's why the
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detectives thought that the
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father might have taken the
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And so they did not focus on
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the child being kidnapped by
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some deviate.
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We just want closure, all of us.
Of course.
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It's been so many years.
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It's like everybody forgot.
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He sent a picture of his
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Rikers Island I.D.
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"Dear Barbara, you know that I
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cannot answer many of your
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questions at this time.
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The documentary film you put so
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Movie Summary
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
