The Magio Case and the Cleaver Attacks

A cryptic message chalked onto the sidewalk in a childish scrawl led investigators to believe that Mrs. Magio was one of the cleaver attacks seven years earlier. The name Mrs. Tony was referring to the wife of Tony Shombra, an Italian grocer who papers claimed had been one of the victims of the infamous cleaver attack. According to criminologist Ray Sorett, copycats are most often influenced by the media through journalism or entertainment.