In the process, we've collected a
preponderance of evidence — dozens
of archival maps, newspaper
accounts, census reports and photographs about Drake Park, the slave burying ground, and the history
of larger Hunts Point community.
Longo was, by all
accounts, a monstrous man — with a
preponderance of evidence linking him to the strangling
of his wife and the drowning
of their four children — but he professed himself a fan
of Finkel's work, and wanted to learn how to write from him.