Hitchhiker's grisly tale to be told again at new sentencing

[Wendell]

Gary Sampson was a 41-year-old drifter and career criminal when he went on a weeklong crime rampage in July 2001. He left North Carolina, where he was a suspect in a string of bank robberies, and returned to Abington, MA, a town about 25 miles south of Boston where he grew up. His first victim was Philip McCloskey, a 69-year-old retired pipefitter from Taunton who picked Sampson up while he was hitchhiking. Sampson later told police he assured McCloskey he only wanted to steal his car, but then tied him up with a belt and stabbed him 24 times. Next came Rizzo, a 19-year-old college student who gave Sampson a ride after leaving his summer job at a Plymouth restaurant. Sampson told police he tied Rizzo to a tree, stabbed him repeatedly, put a gag in his mouth and left him to die in the woods behind a restaurant.
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