"I could give you details about finding the bodies," he winces, "but I think I won't." He was not pressed to do so. It's history now." He said his routine returned to normal when reassigned to uniformed duty. "It was a challenge to investigate, but I've forgotten it. We had to walk out."Īsked if such a gruesome find haunted him in subsequent years, Gunnery's response infers there is a life after so much death. We worked long hours but one night in the middle of all this my wife and I went to a movie, Three in the Attic, but unknown to us it had many scenes of Provincetown in it. We were at it every day between Provincetown and New Bedford (where Dist. Spending months on the investigation and trial disrupted Gunnery's routine as a trooper and as a husband and father of three young girls, (a fourth came later), traveling as near as Vermont and as far as West Virginia in developing evidence. He was convicted on overwhelming circumstantial evidence," Gunnery recalls, a tribute to the work of the investigators in preparing a solid case and to Gunnery's aptitude for turning up evidence. The detective magazines of the time had a field day with the story that temporarily placed Costa in the company of Albert DeSalvo, the alleged Boston Strangler who preceded Costa at Bridgewater, and later multiple murderers like Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, a/k/a son of Sam.
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