© Dennis FabiszakA mysterious statue was left at the East Hampton Library construction site. Do you know why?
Granted, this is not the kind of question you normally hear, but the statue head that was left at the East Hampton Library this weekend begs the question.
Dennis Fabiszak, the library director, tells Patch that some time between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning a statue of the head of a woman, attached to a piece of slate, was left inside the library construction site on top of an old fountain. The back of the statue has a piece broken out of it, where it appears birds made a nest inside of it at some point. Weighing about 50 pounds, it looks like it was made out of a thick red or orange clay that was then painted black. There's an inscription on the back (see photo below).
Where did this statue come from? Who left it at the library? Why was it left at the library? Who is the woman depicted in the statue?
© Dennis FabiszakThe inscription on the back of the statue left at the East Hampton Library. It reads "My Wife Forever Della Penna".
Dolores Della Penna (December 13, 1954 - July 1972) was a 17-year-old Philadelphia schoolgirl who was tortured, gang raped, murdered by dismemberment and beheaded in the Kensington neighborhood in July 1972.
Della Penna's torso and arms were later located in Jackson Township, New Jersey, while her legs were found in neighboring Manchester Township near the border with Jackson. The young girl's head is believed to be located within a wall in "Turtles" former home in Tacony and the house has yet to be searched by law enforcement, and no bikers have yet been arrested in the case.
Official police reports state that Miss Della Penna was killed by drug dealers who believed that her boyfriend had stolen some of their drugs, but as the crime has remained unsolved this version of events will not be verified by law enforcement and is hotly contested.
and the connection to the horrendous murder of Dolores Della Penna leads us to the place Jackson Township, New Jersey and its adjacent area, where the mutilated remains of the girl were found, as well as, of many others had been found over the years.
Maury Z. Levy In the "Bloody Inquest Into the mutilation capital of the country" _[Link]describes his journey into the area this way:
"The drive is like the scenario from a bad dream. You know you’re getting close when you pass Mount Misery. You start watching for the turnoff to Toms River. Most roads in New Jersey just have numbers. This one has a name. It is called Double Trouble Road. If you take it straight, you end up in a town called Double Trouble. The first fork goes to Toms River."
Then, he writes this:
"It was like something Steve Soltys (a man who found the remains of Della Penna's body) had seen in a slaughterhouse. All of the insides had been taken out and the body had been skinned.
“Look at the sockets of the arms,” he said. “The holes are clean. Usually when you mutilate somebody you just cut the arms off and some of the bone is left in the socket. This thing wasn’t a mutilation. The sockets are clean, the arms are perfect. No, this wasn’t a mutilation, this was a carving..."
And there is more. "Calvin Woolley (chief of the county investigators) says there have been over 40 murders around Toms River just in the past six or seven years, many of them mutilations. He seemed hard-pressed to remember any of the details".
One more curious detail. Toms River, New Jersey according to Wikipedia [Link]"can be seen... in the original "The Amityville Horror" movie. I'll say!
And what amazes me the most is that how calm the local officials are about all of this, osit.