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rancy begging indecent assault and violation of parole and there was walter who was charged first with adultery and then because of what he did when the adultery was discovered with assault and battery walter was married to a young woman named mary in 1935 three years before the arrest when walter was twenty two and mary was eighteen they were living in blacktown a small township north of new castle walter had been injured in an accident at no 5 mine and couldn t work so mary got a job in a night club in grove city on her first night the manager tried to rape her she had to fight him off she told walter but he said she should go back to work there were no other jobs the manager tried to rape her again so she quit anyway they had no money until walter was well enough to go back to the mine the adultery and assault and battery charges were dropped before a trial could be arranged mary divorced walter two years later walter married a woman named dolly in winchester va that was a mistake they separated almost immediately a few months after their divorce came through at the end of 1941 walter married a woman from west virginia wanda cawthorn he and wanda had two daughters they lived in brookville where walter did some work in the lumber and building trade ten years later by this time he was running a tavern in town he drove his motorcycle straight into a truck loaded with nine tons of wood that appeared over the crest of a hill in front of him when he was overtaking a long line of cars it was dark and walter had no lights on his bike the two men in the truck both just nineteen years old were killed instantly but walter was fine in february 1958 walter bought a roadhouse about a mile west of kane on the other side of the allegheny national forest it had stood there for as long as anyone could remember it used to be called the chat a wile but it changed its name to the brown derby in the early 1930s after the famous brown derby in hollywood walter and wanda kept the name but started to remodel and improve the building they got live bands to play on friday nights the tumbleweeds the monitors billy lehman s rock itts they had special menus three days a week spaghetti and meatballs on thursdays a fish fry on fridays and chicken in the ruff on saturdays they did good business walter got sick in the middle of december that year by christmas he was too ill to move the doctor said he had leukemia and would die soon he had to spend a lot of time in hospital and wanda couldn t keep the brown derby open spring came and they found someone to run it for them walter came home from the hospital in time for the first day of business a saturday in may which meant fried chicken after closing time that night there was a fire caused by faulty electrical work from the chat a wile days it destroyed most of the parts that walter and wanda had renovated walter died the following week he was forty six years old wanda sold the remains of the brown derby to joe rolick who owned a sawmill and led a polka band he reopened it as joe s tavern she got work as a receptionist in brookville and died in 2007 at the age of eighty eight sources new castle news 7 may 1938 after big fellows in numbers game is court warning 14 may 1938 five persons in sentence court 8 february 1938 around city hall 14 may 1941 on court house hill 14 may 1959 deaths of the day kane republican 2 april 1931 two hurt in head on collision near here 15 september 1932 in a paragraph 2 may 1959 small ads 5 may 1959 brown derby fire causes 2 000 loss 13 may 1959 brown derby tavern owner 46 succumbs to leukemia illness 25 july 1959 kane area couple buys brown derby 31 december 1959 republican presents the headline news of the year in kane jeffersonian democrat 6 september 1951 two die in motorcycle wreck brookville american 1 august 1935 night club prop attacks his help frank costal larceny bicycle 18 march 1945 july 13 2018 by diarmid comments 26 uncategorized in 1923 frank costal s grandmother beatrice found an unusual lizard in the street eight inches long brown with yellow markings she had never seen one like it she took it down to the new castle news office no one else had seen one like it either some years previously she had lost a leg when she stepped out in front of an automobile unexplained fires broke out in her house every so often it burned down the year after she found the lizard in 1932 she shot her husband in the back with a 25 caliber automatic and then put a bullet in her brain frank was four years old at the time when frank was seventeen around the time he dropped out of high school he was arrested on suspicion of stealing a bicycle the case never went to court frank had been unhappy for years he fought constantly with his father he was beaten at home he was worried that he might be a homosexual just after the end of the war he joined the army and became a military policeman before long he went awol and got a job in a carnival freak show as a hermaphrodite frankie francine he appeared in an act in which he gave birth to a live baby he sewed costumes for the showgirls he learned to tell fortunes after years in the carnival he settled in pittsburgh where he worked as an industrial painter craneman and laborer in 1970 when he was forty two he was badly hurt in an accident he came home to new castle with a monthly 240 disability check frank had grown a shaggy beard and had long black hair he would dress up in a bright red suit and loiter in the new mall with his friends an assortment of the eccentric lonely and bored according to an unnamed local a bunch of kooks according to frank s niece the store owners told frank he resembled rasputin which he liked the police called him new castle s first hippie and a real strange asshole his neighbors called him the high priest of satan and the witch of highland avenue he filled his apartment with books on religion and the occult he covered the walls with black curtains he hung plastic bats and miniature skeletons from the ceiling he built an altar on which he placed inverted crucifixes and plastic skulls frank s place became a hangout for kids from town and for lost young men who drifted through they could smoke pot and drink beer in peace playing frank s records and watching as he performed his satanic rituals frank told them he had the power to control people s bodies that he could teleport his mind to other places that his voodoo dolls could be used to exact revenge on his enemies he placed curses on people who slighted him a librarian who declined his request for a book on the devil a taxi driver who refused to let him in his cab the restaurant owners who banned him for using his hands to scoop food out of their salad bars in july 1978 the bodies of a twenty five year old woman kathy kadunce and her four year old daughter dawn were found in their home on wilmington avenue dawn had been stabbed seventeen times kathy had been stabbed eighteen times and shot in the head kathy s infant son was unharmed kathy s husband said he had been at work in a factory warehouse when the murders took place the police had no leads a year and a half later in january 1980 an anonymous caller told the police that a man named michael atkinson was the killer he had been convicted of arson in 1972 and rape in 1978 and had just been arrested for the murder of his landlady in ellwood city the officials who knew him called him a psychopath atkinson said he had been outside the house when the murders were committed he had gone there with three other men kathy s husband a man named john dudoic who had since killed himself and frank costal kathy s husband and frank were lovers he said they had all gone to kathy s house to find some drugs black beauties and percodans that frank had left there kathy had called frank a faggot and told them that she had flushed the drugs down the toilet atkinson said that he heard the sound of a gunshot then saw kathy s husband come out with a rifle followed by frank and dudoic whose clothes and hands were bloodstained the jury found atkinson guilty of murder the judge sentenced him to life in jail then the police arrested frank whose trial began in january 1981 the prosecution called fifty two witnesses much of the testimony concerned frank s relationships with satan and with other men marshall dillion described how he had married frank in a satanic wedding ceremony in frank s kitchen he said he moved out two months later when frank threatened to stab him for talking to girls james zingaro said frank believed kathy kadunce was interfering in his relationship with her husband steve hambrick said he visited frank every day for four years because he liked to talk to him and that he had sex with frank even though he was scared of him he told me he had powers to control people s bodies and could transport himself behind me he said on the way home that night i kept looking back george koziol talked about frank s voodoo doll which had pins stuck in it and had its brain burned out he said he saw frank and atkinson in the apartment in their underwear kissing jane garcia said frank told her she could join his cult and had offered to use astral projection to get rid of her husband for 25 ben clingensmith said frank told him the church was phony the virgin mary was a lesbian and jesus was a queer robert macoskey an expert in satanism from slippery rock state college was brought in to explain that frank s plastic skeletons bats and halloween props were all used in devil worship he noted that frank owned the satanic bible by anton lavey which recommended the use of skulls candles bells and heavy black drapery in rituals he said that initiation into a satanic cult could involve drug taking homosexual acts and murder he said that the goddess lilith was an important part of satanic ceremonies lilith was bisexual she presided over murderous male demons who dressed as women and seduced men witnesses testified that frank liked to wear women s clothes he had been seen in red bikini underwear macoskey said that satanic human sacrifices involved seventeen wounds being inflicted on the victims kathy and her daughter had been stabbed at least seventeen times each frank was the last person on the witness stand he was clean shaven with short hair he wore a pale blue suit the police had confiscated his false teeth so he spoke with a slur no sir i ve never been in the kadunce house he said no sir i did not kill dawn kadunce no sir i did not shoot kathy kadunce he said that he would have been sleeping on the morning of the killings as he always stayed up to watch late movies on cable and slept until one in the afternoon he denied having had an affair with kathy s husband he said he had never met him he said i m more of a bisexual than a homo but also that he had never had a successful relationship with a woman i started to and lost interest he said he had known atkinson for five or six years but had slept with him only once it was cold one night and i let him in he said atkinson threatened to kill him i had the constant fear he d make good on the threat he was weird he said he was not a satanist he had five hundred books on various religions only three of which concerned satanism he crammed his apartment with spooky novelties to make it an attraction he got the skeletons free with burgers at a local restaurant a lot of people liked to take a peek at it so i decorated it as weird as i could i never had what you would call a cult some people would come to my house to discuss different religious groups sometimes they d ask and i d put on a really good show it was a lot of fun and i usually ended up with a couple of six packs he said he had learned some of his performance from watching oral roberts on television he denied saying he had the power to take someone out of their body astral projection is true but only an individual person can take his own spirit out of their body he said he was unable to do it himself i ve always wanted to lay down and go to another country or planet but all those goofy books could never tell me how frank s trial lasted two weeks the courthouse was packed throughout one woman said i wouldn t miss this for the world there will never be another frank costal in new castle another said i just buried my husband i m a widow and have nothing better to do frank s attorney summed up the case for the defense my client is guilty of being eccentric of having a long beard and long hair but not of murder he is the toothless witch of highland avenue he was an easy target the prosecution said costal was one of several people acting with different motives in a concerted plan to kill kathy kadunce and her daughter through his cult costal manipulated people and acquired power power to get mike atkinson to go with him to the kadunce house and power to get inside the jury found frank guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree and he was given two consecutive life sentences he spent his last years in a long term care unit for geriatric prisoners the last outsider to see him the year before he died said that he was semi comatose his skeletal body rigid beneath a thin blanket his eyes hollow and fevered he died in december 1999 at the age of seventy one kathy kadunce s husband lawrence was charged with murder immediately after frank was convicted he spent a year in jail before his trial at which he was found innocent he moved away from new castle after his release there is no further record of his life sources new castle news 14 march 1916 goes to pittsburgh 10 april 1919 defendant wins in automobile case 23 april 1923 mrs costal finds strange lizzard 2 june 1925 fire destroys carl st home 12 march 1928 city and county officers in raids on saturday night 20 june 1932 woman shoots husband then suicides 19 march 1945 two boys held pittsburgh post gazette 13 july 1978 slayings plunge new castle into fear 31 december 1980 slay suspect led satanic cult 17 january 1981 new castle hangout lured men trial told 23 january 1981 costal talked of seeing 2 killed witness says 24 january 1981 niece praises slay suspect 26 january 1981 trial in mutilation killing lures spectators like a soap 28 january 1981 costal testifies role in satanic cult was big joke 29 january 1981 costal is found guilty in satanic slay case indiana gazette 11 february 1980 two men held in homicide youngstown vindicator 9 may 1980 lawrence grand jury indicts 2 men in kadunce murders 22 january 1981 satanism expert gives testimony at costal trial accused kadunce killer costal denies murdering mother girl 29 january 1981 long deliberations seen as jury gets costal case clearfield progress 13 january 1981 costal trial opens titusville herald 13 january 1981 costal murder trial opens in new castle tyrone daily herald 16 january 1981 roommate says costal was at victims home 20 january 1981 witness says costal seen with victim s husband 21 january 1981 killer was looking for drugs when he sta...