Chapter 5
--Liberty Press--
LIBERTY PRESS- SEPTEMBER 15th, 1971
THE BUTCHER GETS LIFE
Libery City- Tommy Vercetti, also known as the infamous "Harwood Butcher" was sentenced to life in prison yesterday in a Libery City courtroom. Vercetti pleaded guilty to all charges of murder, and an arrangement was worked out to save him from the death penalty. The entire case went through fairly quickly, due to the immediate plea of guilty, in which Vercetti seemed a little reluctant to.
Tommy Vercetti was charged with ten counts of first degree murder. On one tragic night, he slew ten men with a knife, in which he became, "The Harwood Butcher", and also accounted for the most violent single crime action ever seen in Liberty City to this date. The evidence against Vercetti mounted higher and higher each day. The knife used as the murder weapon was shown to have been the one to puncture the flesh of the ten victims. The female witness, who wished to remain annonymous, also saw Vercetti stabbing the ten men, then rearing off in his vehicle. Thirdly, Vercetti's fingerprints were found on the bloddy kinfe, and on a few of the victims.
Four of the bodies in this grizzly slaughter could not be immediately identified due to the extreme distortion they undertook when crushed in the autocrusher. The search also continues for one missing man whos body was not found at the scene. The six identified men were all related to this businessman before the time of their deaths, and this missing man was supposedly in the area at the time of the crime, but again, his body has not been found, so hope of his rescue or finding is still in tact.
Currently, Vercetti is being sent to the Liberty City high security prison, on Staunton Island. Here he will be staying in jail for the rest of his life for first degree murder. The prosecution says....
More about this case on Page A5.