Waldo Grant
American serial killer
Waldo Grant (November 3, 1946 – June 6, 2023) was an American serial killer who murdered four young men in New York City between September 1973 and December 1976. In January 1977, he confessed to the killings after being questioned by city police. He was sentenced to life in prison the following year and died in 2023.
Personal life
Waldo Grant was born in Bulloch County, Georgia, on November 3, 1946, as one of Jerome Grant and Mattie Rucker Grant's fifteen children. He was raised in Statesboro, and when he turned 16, he became a self-ordained minister for a black gospel church. In 1971, he moved north to escape a failed marriage, eventually settling into an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Although his neighbors described him as a quiet loner, he was somewhat-well known throughout Upper West Side's gay community.
Murders
Phillip Mitchell – On September 13, 1973, Grant murdered 20-year-old Phillip Mitchell by hitting him over the head with a lead pipe. He then dragged Mitchell's body to the roof of 203 West 91st Street. In an attempt to make the murder look like an accident, he threw Mitchell's corpse off the roof and into a rear yard.
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