Father and Son. The Podcast. Chapter One.

“Father and Son” tells the incredible story of my father’s first; yes, you read that correctly, murder. It was not just some killing in Boston’s Back Bay. It was a vicious murder of an elder antiques dealer, Jacob Kohn. He was murdered with a claw hammer in 1947.

The killer left a set of keys. Boston went door to door looking for the domicile of the person who was there when Kohn was murdered. The keys opened my father’s apartment. But Dad was gone.

What happened next was an international manhunt for my father. He was described as handsome and debonair in the press. He was in the press every day then. And when I say he was in the press, it was in that EXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA kind of way. Picture little boys on street corners screaming my father’s name with an add-on, the Hammer Murderer.