rifle and wounding a teenage pedestrian before police tracked him down. At Joan and Alfred’s request, a judge then ordered that Christopher be sent to a school for delinquent and disturbed adolescents. At seventeen, he was arrested for car theft and was sentenced to a correctional institution. By the age of nineteen, he was working as a lifeguard in Florida, where he married a waitress, fathered three children—and (in his own words) “had no idea” where the family was after he obtained a hasty divorce. He then married a second time and returned to Long Island. He never held down any job for
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