Act I First Inkling

1957: Raymond Ohlson is convicted for the murders of 10 and 11-year-old brothers, John and Paul Logan of Stoughton, MA

1959: The Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous is created

1969: 13-year-old MIchelle Wilson’s remains are recovered on Baldpate Rd on the Boxford/Georgetown, MA line.

1973: 7-year old Janice Pockett goes missing from Tolland, CT

1974: The remains of 12-year old Kathleen Terry who went missing in CT are found in Sturbridge, MA

1975: A 7-year-old is abducted in Putnam CT. 25 years later she recognizes Nathaniel Bar Jonah as the man who abducted her.

1978: 4-year old Andy Amato goes missing from Webster, MA

1978: David Brown aka Nathaniel Bar Jonah is sentenced to the Treatment Center

1979: Charles E. Pierce is convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Michelle Wilson in Boxford, MA.

1989: Mass State Police trooper Joe Flaherty writes a letter to Lawrence Captain Fitzpatrick asking someone to come out and question Charles E. Pierce who is confessing to the murder of a Lawrence boy.

1991: Bar Jonah and Chapman are determined “no longer sexually dangerous” and are released from their civil commitment. Bar Jonah is released into the community. Chapman goes to prison to serve his criminal sentence.

1991: A month after his release Nathaniel Bar Jonah tries to suffocate a child in the parking lot of a post office in Oxford, MA. He is given probation and told by MA authorities to go to Montana to live with his mother.

1995: Wayne W. Chapman writes letter to his friend, Nathaniel Bar Jonah in Montana

1996: Zachary Ramsay, a 10-year old boy from Montana goes missing

1998: Melanie gets access to a letter in Andy’s file naming Charles E. Pierce

1998: Cadaver dogs search area where Charles E. Pierce claims to have buried the bodies of two children.

1999: The Boston Globe publishes an 8-part series on Melanie’s search for her childhood friend, Andy
Puglisi

1999: The FBI finds coded writing implicating Bar Jonah in the murder of Zach Ramsay and assaults of many children including links to James Teta of Revere, MA and Angelo Puglisi of Lawrence, MA

2000: Nathaniel Bar Jonah is charged with Zach Ramsay abduction and assault on four other boys

2000: A victim recognizes Bar Jonah as the man who abducted her in Putnam CT

Act II Missing and Murdered

1969: Michelle Wilson, age 13, Boxford, MA crushed skull Charles Pierce convicted.

1972: Robert Jankowski, age 3, Roslindale, MA strangled – unsolved

1972: Daniel Croteau, age 13, Springfield, MA crushed skull Father Richard Lavigne named as suspect

1973: Jimmy Teta, age 15, from Revere MA recovered in Rindge NH, strangulation unsolved

1973: AnnMarie Grew, age 16, from Chelsea MA worked as a dancer in Revere, MA stabbed

1973: Jessica Moynihan, age 4, Rutland, MA found in the woods in Rutland with her mother Maureen stabbed – unsovled

1974: Henry Bedard, age 15, Swampscott, MA crushed skull unsolved

1974: Michael O’Gorman, age 12, Gloucester, MA found in 1979 Crushed skull – unsolved

1974: Leigh Savoie, age 9, Revere, MA missing and unsolved

1974: David Louison, age 6 Brockton, MA recovered 1980 cause of death unknown – unsolved

1974: Kathleen Terry, age 12, Sturbridge, MA crushed skull – unsolved

1974: Susan Rhona Labbe, age 17, Lawrence, MA missing – unsolved

1974: Kathleen Williams, age 16, Andover, MA homicide – unsolved

1975: Steven Barnes, age 8, Dennis, MA homicide unsolved, stabbed

1975: Denise Cochrane, age 10, Brockton, MA Recovered in 1976 crushed skull – unsolved

1976: John Leary, age 15, Jamaica Plain, MA crushed skull – unsolved

1976: Angelo Pugllisi, age 10. Lawrence, MA Missing – unsolved

1976: Thomas Willet, age 17, Jamaica Plain MA homicide – unsolved

1976: Michael Cody, age 11, Revere MA alleged suicide

1976: Gary McCormack, age 14, Lawrence, MA alleged suicide

1976: Nelida del Valle, age 9. Boston, MA Missing – unsolved

1976: Carla Fowler, age 14, Salisbury, MAcrushed skull

1977: Deborah Ann Quimby, age 13 Townsend, MA missing – unsolved

1977: Judy Belfrey, age 17, Boston, MA homicide – unsolved

1977: Simone Ridinger, age 17, Sherborn, MA missing – unsolved

1978: Andy Amato, age 4, Webster, MA missing – unsolved

1978: Theresa Corley, age 19, Bellinghan, MA strangled and sexually abused

1979: Paula Kallenback, age 15, Lynn, MA crushed skull

1979: Richard Greenidge, age 14, Framingham, MA crushed skull

Act III Coordinated Abuse and CP

1975: Two boys are abducted in Lawrence, MA near the Stadium projects and are taken into the woods and raped. One of the boys remembers hearing someone else in the woods and a ‘clicking noise’.

1976: 10-year old Andy Puglisi gives his mother a Polaroid he said a strange man took of him

1976: A 13-year-old girl shares stories of abuse by juvenile delinquent boys and being forced to pose for sexually explicit Polaroid photos in the Stadium projects where Andy and Melanie lived.

1976: Andy Puglisi vanishes on August 22, 1976

1976: Wayne W. Chapman is arrested in upstate NY

1976: The 1975 victims identify Wayne W. Chapman as the man who abducted them in Lawrence

1977: Wayne W. Chapman is convicted of the rape of the two Lawrence boys and additional rapes in Fall River and Seekonk, MA.

1977: Several arrests are made in Lawrence, MA for the distribution of child pornography

2016: Melanie learns juvenile delinquents in the Stadium projects are producing child pornography using Polaroid cameras