- Vincent LaMarca
"Vincent Anthony LaMarca" is a former police detective. His story adapted to a film "
City by the Sea ", where he portrayed byRobert De Niro . Vincent LaMarca currently lives inFlorida .Arrest of his father
When he was a child at age nine, in the Long Island city of Long Beach, referred to locally as "the City by the Sea." His father, Angelo LaMarca, committed a kidnapping that resulted in the death of a child. Opposite to the film, Lamarca's father did not accidentally kill an infant. He kidnapped little Peter Weinberger, walked into the woods with him, put him on the ground face down, and walked away, basically ensuring that the baby would die. [ [http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/weinber/weinbernew.htm FBI Famous Cases: The Weinberger Kidnapping] ] After these events Vincent carrying a huge psychological burden. In the early 70s, Vincent's then father in law, Long Beach Police Commissioner John Trumm (whose second wife, Thea is mother of Linda and grandmother of Joseph) helped him become a member of the Long Beach Police Department.
His father was an army veteran from East New York, Brooklyn, who had no job and no place to live after
World War II .Murder by his son
Vincent LaMarca had two sons with his (now ex-wife) wife, Linda LaMarca – the younger, Joey LaMarca, which born in August 1972 became estranged from his father when the couple split up. Joey was a victim of abuse by a neighbor. This abuse tortured him for years. Drifting into drugs and petty crime; Joey did not kill a drug dealer in self defense. Joey committed a cold blooded murder, stabbing a man over 60 times and nearly decapitating him.
Police found the dead body had drowned in the sand. Or so it seemed. When police found the body of the athletic young white male on the gray morning of October, 1996, he was partially buried on a public beach. The colors on the silvery body were startling. There was red, sure, but New York City detectives are used to seeing blood. This body was inked, ripped, and scattered like pages from a comic book.
Joey lived in a two-bedroom apartment a block from the beach with his girlfriend, Jannie Glavin. When the cops talked to her, she reported that Joey had come home the night of the murder with a cut hand. Afterward Joey borrowed some money, fled Long Beach, and headed by bus to North Carolina. His mother, Linda, had no idea where her son had gone. She called the Long Beach police to file a missing-person's report. A Long Beach cop was in her living room three days after James Winston's murder, filling out the report, when the phone rang; it was Joey. Linda invited the cop to pick up and listen in.
Police finally found Joey near Houston, in
Buffalo, Texas , in a house with some people he had met at the bus station. DeLeon had enlisted the help of the Texas Rangers to find him. The cops discovered Joey lying in bed, unarmed. He had just finished writing his suicide note. Joey LaMarca will probably never get out of a hospital or jail. His older brother by four years, John Angelo, married Margaret Anne Trudeau in summer 1997.See also
"
City by the Sea ", 2002 film.References
*"Mark of a murderer" by
Mike McAlary , "Esquire" magazine, 1997
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