A chance encounter in the lobby of a Times Square motel lead to four decades of investigative research into the methods and madness of a brutal serial killer. Meet Dr. Peter Vronsky, the man who looked the Times Square Torso Killer in the eye in the immediate aftermath of the murders that spawned his sordid moniker and would, forty years later, be granted access to the monster himself.

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