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Mark Olsen
The Los Angeles Times
Many communities have some physical place that focalizes its residents' fears and anxieties, an untended wooded lot or an empty building that's fallen into disrepair. In one Staten Island neighborhood, that place is an abandoned facility that once housed mentally ill patients, where a boogeyman called Cropsey is thought to reside.
For their new documentary, Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, who grew up on Staten Island, use the folk tale about the madman who snatches kids as a framing device for a film that explores the case of Andre Rand, a man convicted decades apart of two child abductions and suspected of many more. [...]
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