Asa Darabondi
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Asa Severin Daribondi (born on 28 MAY 1886, disappeared in 1950, declared dead on 2 SEP 1960), is suspected to have drowned at least five (and possibly as many as 20) children between 1947 and 1950. Charles Lundine, the son of the owner of the building and a talented musician, hanged himself in the second-floor ballroom on 30 AUG 1950Career
During his early career, Daribondi was called the Picasso of architecture. He designed strange, misshapen constructions that he called “Thought Buildings” between 1905 and 1921 in Chicago. After having what is sometimes called a “religious revelation” and sometimes a “drug experience,” he moved to New York in 1921 and took up residence at an unnamed midtown hotel. The nine buildings he erected in New York City all still stand. They are, unlike his previous structures, mundane and of the age, with small, obsessed-about flourishes. Only after his disappearance in 1950 was Daribondi suspected of having drowned at least five children, beginning in 1947. The books speculate he may be responsible for many more. He vanished without a trace in 1950, leaving behind the drowned body of five-year-old Isabelle Sauer, huge debts, a log book which appears to track the deaths of children dating back to 1921, and many, many questions. He was declared legally dead by his mother on 2 SEP 1960.stats
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1950
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