On October 12, 1979, a senseless act of violence was committed. Francine Elveson, a bright young daycare teacher, was brutally strangled with the strap of her bag and left on the roof of the Bronx apartment she shared with her parents. She was found naked and mutilated, with a message to the police scrawled on her body in a pen. Her thighs were covered in bite marks.
On October 12, Carmine Calabro snuck out of the mental health facility in which he had been living for a year, confirmed by his father. He managed to get through the lax security rather easily. He made his way to the Pelham Parkway housing unit Francine had lived in. He murdered her in cold blood, with unrelenting violence. He knocked her unconscious
