Staten Island saw itsshare of violence and murder as it transformed from a sleepy community to anurban outer borough. The 1920 discovery of a woman’s body by two young boyswalking their dog remains unsolved. An inmate at Sailors’ Snug Harbor—aretirement home for seamen—shot a preacher in cold blood. Shocking and horrificstories of killers and their victims such as these plague Staten Island’sotherwise pleasant past. From the handsome soldier convicted of his Russianwife’s shooting in New Dorp Beach to the New Brighton guard beaten to deathwhile protecting seized whiskey during Prohibition, local historian PatriciaSalmon uncovers Staten Island’s most chilling tales of infamous andlong-forgotten acts of violence.