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Before the 1970s and Son of Sam, the residents of Queens, in New York City, were familiar with another phantom gunman, stalking human targets in their midst. Like "Sam," he kept up running correspondence with the press, explaining his attacks in terms that only he could fully comprehend. Unlike his imitator, the original Queens killer managed to escape detection, and his case remains unsolved today.
On June 11, 1930, grocer Joe Mozynski parked with 19-year-old Catherine May along an isolated lover's lane in College Point, a neighborhood of Queens. They wanted privacy, and they were startled by a stranger who approached the car, produced a gun, and shot the grocer dead without a word of warning. Catherine May was ordered from the car and raped by the assailant; afterward, he searched her purse and burned some letters she was carrying. That done, he walked her to the nearest trolley stop and put her on a homebound car, first handing her a note that had been printed with a rubber stamp, in crimson ink. It read:
Joseph Mozynski
3X3-X-097
Suspicious homicide detectives were still holding May as a material witness when the killer's first letter reached a local newspaper, on June 13. Despite its brevity, it seemed to make no sense at all.
Kindly print this letter in your paper for Mozyeski's friends: "CC-NY ADCM-Y16a- DQR-PA...241 PM6 Queens. " By doing this you may save their lives. We do not want any more shooting unless we have to.
A second letter arrived on June 14, branding Mozynski "a dirty rat," declaring that the killer accosted his victim "to get certain documents but unfortunately they were not in his possession at that time." Providing a concise description of the murder gun and ammunition, for purposes of verification, the letter closed with a warning that "14 more of Mozynski's friends will join him" if the crucial documents were not delivered.
On June 16, Noel Sowley and Elizabeth Ring were parked near Creedmore, Queens, when a gunman approached their car, demanding Sowley's driver's license. Turning toward the outer darkness, he appeared to flash a coded signal with his flashlight, finally turning back to Sowley. "You're the one we want, all right," he said. "You're going to get what Joe got."
With that, the gunman executed Sowley, rifling his pockets before he turned on the woman. Avoiding rape with the display of a religious medal, Elizabeth Ring was left with a note similar to the one Catherine May had received on June 11.
Next morning, the killer mailed a new letter, with two spent cartridges enclosed. The note described "V-5 Sowley" as "one more of Mozynski's friends," adding that "thirteen more men and one woman will go if they do not make peace with us and stop bleeding us to death."
A massive search of New York City failed to turn a suspect, even with descriptions from the two eyewitnesses. On June 21, the killer surfaced in Philadelphia, mailing threats to Joe Mozynski's brother in an effort to secure "those papers." While the manhunt shifted into Pennsylvania, New York police received another long and rambling letter from the gunman. Describing himself as an agent of an anti communist group, "the Red Diamond of Russia," the killer proclaimed: "The last document, N.J. 4-3-44 returned to us the 19 at 9 p.m. My mission is ended. There is no further cause for worry."
True to his word, the "3X" killer disappeared without another note or crime to mark his passing. Six years later, during June of 1936, a suspect in New Jersey signed confessions to the murders, but his story was discredited by homicide detectives and he was dispatched to an asylum. Memories of phantom gunmen were revived by the October 1937 "Lipstick Murders," so-called after high school sweethearts Lewis Weiss and Frances Hajek were shot in their car, circles drawn on the forehead of each victim with Hajek's lipstick, but that case, too, remained unsolved.
The "3X" legend grew with time and distance, swiftly losing contact with reality. As World War II approached, the homicides were blamed by pamphleteers on Axis spies. A generation later, writing of the case in Open Files, author Jay Robert Nash described "3X" as "A maniac bomber (who} plagued New York City in the early 1930s by planting various homemade bombs throughout Manhattan, particularly at the sites of major landmarks." In retrospect, there is no need to make the phantom more or less than what he was. The truth is grim enough.
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