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- ↑ Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Colin Evans, 2008, page 243
- ↑ 2 Charged With Slaying of 6 in Bakery, The New York Times, November 22, 1974
- ↑ State v. Piskorski, State of Connecticut v. Ronald Piskorski, Supreme Court of Connecticut, 177 Conn. 677 (1979)
- ↑ Schrager v. Mullin, 1999 Ct. Sup. 10139, Memorandum of Decision on Motion to Strike, No. CV97-0574668, July 16, 1999
