Twin Serial Killers Elmira Ny
5 September 2006 Robert and Stephen Spahalski, twin brothers raised together in childhood but separated by decades with one isolated in prison, may be excellent study subjects to determine why people develop the tendencies that make them murderers. Robert Bruce Spahalski, 51, has been accused of murdering four people, three women and one man, over a period of 15 years, the first in 1990. Four charges of 2nd degree murder have been entered against him: for the 1990 killing of Moraine Armstrong in Rochester, NY; the 1991 killing of Adrian Berger in Rochester and the killing of Charles Grande in Webster, NY; and the 2005 killing of Vivian Irizarry, 54, in Rochester. Originally from Elmira, NY, Spahalski has an extensive criminal record going back to the 1971 arson fire he set at school in Elmira, and had worked in Rochester as a male escort and street prostitute. Those who knew him say he had a long-term drug habit and was HIV-positive.
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On November 4, 2005, while his girlfriend of 10 years, Christine Gonzalez, was at work, Spahalski was smoking crack cocaine with friend and next-door-neighbor, Vivian Irizarry. As Irizarry used a knife to open the last bag of crack, Spahalski allegedly told homicide investigators, 'all of a sudden I saw her as a demon. I freaked out.'
He saw her as a hideous monster and beat her over the head. When he began coming down from his drug high, he claims he saw her convulsing and then strangled her to death to end her suffering. He then went on a crack binge for the rest of the weekend. Afterward, he turned himself in to the Rochester Police Department, told them where they could find Irizarry’s body.
He then confessed in writing to the murder of Irizarry, and the murder of Charles Grande, after police interrogated him at great length. He later told journalists that he feared being labeled as a serial killer if they learned he confessed to murdering more than two people. His attorney, Joseph S.
Damelio, has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, and 'drug-induced psychosis' may also be used in his defense. Although he told police he had placed her body on a bed, Irizarry's body was found, unclothed except for a sock, in the basement of the Spencer Street address he shared with Gonzalez. Spahalski told police that he took off her clothes to wash them because she had soiled herself while she was convulsing. Church on the moon torrent. Spahalski confessed that he hit Charles Grande in the head several times with a hammer in Grande's home in October 1991 because Grande refused to pay him $20 for sex. Spahalski claimed he turned the thermostat up all the way, hoping that the heat would cause the body to become too decomposed to yield evidence to police.
However, before anyone learned of Grande's death, Spahalski was pulled over in a traffic stop by a Rochester Police officer. Driving Grande's 1980 Plymouth Volare, Spahalski presented Grande's driver's license and claimed to the officer that he was Grande. After Grande's body was discovered, Spahalski was arrested and charged with criminal impersonation, but the prosecution failed to make the charges stick. He was acquitted in August 1992, and the records were sealed. The prosecution has asked Monroe County Judge Patricia Marks to have court records relating to these charges unsealed so those witnesses can be called in the present case. The strangulation death of Moraine Armstrong, 24, had remained unsolved until Spahalski's confession. On New Year's Eve 1990, her naked body was found by police in her apartment at 509 Lake Avenue, with an electrical cord still wrapped around her neck.