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Peter Weinberger (June 2, 1956 – c. July 12, 1956) was a one-month-old infant who was kidnapped for ransom on July 4, 1956, in New York state. The case gained national notoriety due to the circumstances of the kidnapping and the victim's family, as unlike many ransom victims, Weinberger was not from a wealthy and prominent family, but from a suburban middle class family.
When Vincent was 11, his father, Angelo LaMarca, was executed for the murder of Peter Weinberger, the result of a botched kidnapping; Angelo had stolen Weinberger from a bassinet on the porch of the baby's home, panicked, and ditched the child near a freeway exit where he died of suffocation in a honeysuckle patch. [2] [3]
Peter Weinberger: One month United States of America Peter Weinberger was a male toddler in Nassau County, New York, who, on July 4, 1956, was abducted and held for ransom. His kidnapper, Angelo LaMarca, was arrested over a month later. On August 24, LaMarca directed authorities to a location near a highway where he claimed he had abandoned ...
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An FBI agent spotted a diaper pin, then the decomposed remains of Peter Weinberger. The Weinberger case also resulted in new legislation, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which reduced the FBI's waiting period in kidnapping cases from 7 days to 24 hours. [7] LaMarca was executed via electric chair on 7 August 1958. 28 December 1956
In July, an Orange County jury convicted Woodward of first-degree murder and found he was motivated by hate when he inflicted 28 stab wounds on Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old University of ...
In 1956, in the biggest case of his career, Gulotta prosecuted Angelo LaMarca in the kidnap-murder of 33-day-old Peter Weinberger; LaMarca was executed. Gulotta held the district attorney office until 1958, when he was first elected to the state's Supreme Court.