Kathy Pinna
Man Charged in 1976 Killing
Nineteen years ago, Anthony Lee Foskey was a pallbearer at the funeral of Jon Mitchell, a 10-year-old who was raped and killed while running an errand for his mother on Jan. 29, 1976. Pallbearer or not, Mr. Foskey was a suspect almost from the start, and now he has been charged with murder.
"Everybody knew from the beginning or suspected that Anthony Lee Foskey committed this crime," Detective Michael Cosmo said yesterday, a day after Mr. Foskey was charged. The detective, assigned to old and unsolved crimes in 1988, cracked this one after interviewing 56 people, including relatives of Mr. Foskey, who has a history of sex crimes against children and has spent most of the last two decades in prison. He would have been released in about six months if not for the new charge, the detective said.
- The New York Times (New Jersey Daily Briefing by David Stout) Feb 23 1995.
"Everybody knew from the beginning or suspected that Anthony Lee Foskey committed this crime," Detective Michael Cosmo said yesterday, a day after Mr. Foskey was charged. The detective, assigned to old and unsolved crimes in 1988, cracked this one after interviewing 56 people, including relatives of Mr. Foskey, who has a history of sex crimes against children and has spent most of the last two decades in prison. He would have been released in about six months if not for the new charge, the detective said.
- The New York Times (New Jersey Daily Briefing by David Stout) Feb 23 1995.
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