Cape Cod's Dark Secret: The Tony Costa Murders

vv The family of Patricia Walsh , victim of Cape Cod serial killer Antone Costa, lived down the street from my family on California Ave., Providence , Rhode Island in the then idyllic post war Washington Park neighborhood. It does seem like such a long long time ago now. We lived at 315 California Ave. The Walsh family lived at 232 California Ave. I just checked these addresses in the on- line Providence Directory. Of course the whole neighborhood was shocked when they read about the pretty young girl - murdered by the drug crazed Antone Costa in Provincetown, on Cape Cod.I used to play touch football in the street with her brother, Dennis whom I remembered as a lively, joking athletic type. Danny Barclay - now a Providence Police detective - was one of his chums. Patricia Walsh now and then gave the California Ave. gang a ride in her light blue Volkswagen -which a while back I recognized in a magazine article. She seemed the vivacious type , still with a mild case of adolescent acne. I think I heard it from Dan that Patrician's parents had turned her bedroom into a shrine - left unchanged for years. And from Dan that Dennis responded to the fiendish murder of his sister with lyrics from the Beatles : " Let it be... let it be.. I may have bumped into Dennis a few years ago, but I simply was not prepared to discuss the events of 30 years ago.The Walsh family were members of the St. Paul's Church parish.