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However, due to his acute mental instability, he is unlikely to stand trial.
ĭespite lack of evidence, investigators still believe that he is a likely suspect, citing the fact that the murders ceased after his arrest, and that an anonymous source placed him as a potential culprit on the first killing. Manhattan State Hospital officials stated Soto was in their custody at the time of the murder, but also later confirmed that he might have eluded confinement, as it had happened before. His only surviving victim did say that Soto looked like his attacker, but refused to positively identify him. He was an intermittent patient of the Manhattan State Hospital since 1969 and confessed to the 1973 slaying of Cropper. Erno Soto Īfter the botched abduction of a Puerto Rican boy on May 15, 1974, Erno Soto was arrested by the police. He bled to death from an injury to his arm, although his penis was left intact. Finally, on August 17, 1973, eight-year-old Steven Cropper was repeatedly slashed with a razor on the roof of a tenement block. On March 6, 1973, a nine-year-old Puerto Rican child named Luis Ortiz was stabbed 38 times and likewise mutilated. His penis had also been severed from his body. On October 23, nine-year-old Wendell Hubbard was stabbed to death on the roof of an East Harlem tenement block. On April 20, another black youth was repeatedly stabbed his genitals were severed from his body, although he survived his injuries. His penis had been cut, but not severed from his body. On March 9, 1972, eight-year-old Douglas Owens was found dead, stabbed 38 times.