Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building, New York City

Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building, New York City

Photograph

Leonard Freed

Maker
American, 1929–2006

Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building, New York City

Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building. This had all the markings of a Mafia killing. It was explained to me that the Mafia hires skilled lawyers to advise on such things. The man had been shot three times in the back of the head. In order to convict, the state would have to find the three guns, the three men who did the killing, and then prove which of the three bullets actually killed the man, and who fired the gun.


1972
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2018
Inscriptions Signed in pencil on verso, BRC: Leonard Freed
Inscribed in ink on verso, TL: 17
Inscribed in ink on verso, TR: Violence
Stamped in ink on verso, TR: Photograph By \ Leonard Freed \ © MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC. \ 15 West 46th Street, N.Y.C. 10036 \ 72-19- [inscribed in ink] -20/24
Stamped in ink on verso, C: 53143
Inscribed in pencil on verso, C [upside down]: 72-19-20/24
Inscribed in pencil on verso, LC: 72711
Stamped in ink on verso, BC: MAGNUM \ PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT \ NEW YORK. \ [illegible] REF. [pencil inscription strikethrough] \ TO BE RETURNED
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: Book: Police Work + \ WORLDVIEW
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 6000 1972 NEW YORK CITY -USA
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 72-19-20+24
Stamped in ink on verso, BC: VINTAGE PRINT
Stamped in ink on verso, BRC: © Leonard Freed-Magnum
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BRC: LF-PW-057.01
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