Friendly Shoes and Evil Camels

Upon being introduced, Ann Pfreundschuh would explain that her surname translates from the German into “Friendly Shoe”. She was a kind and promising Pratt Institute classmate and friend of mine in 1983 when she was savagely beaten, bound, gagged and drowned in her own bathtub by two 18-year-old local men who were in the process of robbing her off-campus apartment on Clinton Avenue Brooklyn when she walked in on them.

This was my first close encounter with evil…