The author said, "The message of his letters to me was that a person as intent on being virtuous as he could not possibly have hurt a fly. Vonnegut maintained a correspondence with Costa. The media attention was so great that Kurt Vonnegut (whose daughter Edith had met Costa) compared him to Jack the Ripper in an article in the Jissue of Life Magazine, which was included in his collection of essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons. These claims produced a stream of national and international media outlets into local Provincetown, Massachusetts. The case gained international attention when district attorney Edmund Dinis, in comments to the media, claimed "The hearts of each girl had been removed from the bodies and were not in the graves…Each body was cut into as many parts as there are joints." Dinis also claimed that there were teeth marks found on the bodies. Just like Richard Chase, this is also a story of another vampire. Born August 2nd 1944, died May 12th 1974. Antone Charles “Tony” Costa, or the Cape Cod Vampire, or the Vampire of Massachusetts, was an American serial killer and carpenter who achieved notoriety for committing serial murders in and around the Massachusetts town of Truro in 1969.
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