Son of Sam’s Connection to a Halloween Massacre
Halloween night 1981 in New York City, was another excuse for people to wear costumes and pretend to be something they weren’t. But that night, someone would go from pretending to be scary, to committing a double murder.
Ronald Sisman had invited his girlfriend, Elizabeth Platzman, over to his place for a photoshoot. They were enjoying wine. When a group of masked individuals showed up at the door. Ronald first told Elizabeth they should just ignore them, but when the knocking turned into banging, he relented and opened the door.
The bodies of Elizabeth Platzman 19, and Ronald Sisman 39 were found early Saturday morning at Sisman’s duplex on West 22nd Street in Manhattan, near Greenwich Village. He used it as his residence and the location of his two photography businesses.
The couple had been severely beaten before being shot in the back of their heads at close range, execution-style. Either before or after their murders, the place had been ransacked by the killers. Furniture had been ripped, other items torn apart, in an attempt by the killers to find something?
There was so much chaos in the apartment that investigators couldn’t walk without stepping on something.
Both Sisman and Platzman’s faces and bodies were covered in an array of bruises. From what must…
