Ashes to Ashes

MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD...OR OF THE SLOAN GUARANTY TRUST?

The St. Bernadette's Parents League was formed to save the old, bankrupt parochial school from being replaced by a twenty-story apartment house. The irate protesters had sentiment and Francis P. O'mara on their side. Unger Realty had John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan Guaranty Trust, $4 million and the archdiocese of New York behind them.

Francis P. O'mara was a powerful spokesman for his cause -- but so was an unknown killer with a butcher's mallet who was determined to have the last word.