The Little Boy from SoHo

Soho in the nineteen seventies was not the trendy place to visit as it is today. It was a very dark part of New York City, abandoned factory buildings dotted the neighborhood, junkies roamed the streets, graffiti was everywhere.

On the morning of May 25, 1979, a boy, barely six-years old, was allowed to walk to his school bus stop alone, "ACCORDING TO HIS MOTHER." He never returned home.

That night, NYPD's NSU II was called into action and Officer Joyce and eleven other cops were assigned to...