Today you'd call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the
summer of 1966, it was country -- just a cluster of houses, some of them
shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. And while
June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare. In The
Devil at Genesee Junction, veteran crime writer, Michael Benson, returns
to his formerly rural hometown to take on the double homicide of his
friends Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formiciola that took place that
night. The two girls were missing for a month and then found in the
bushes horribly mutilated. The double homicide changed the author's
childhood suddenly, and drastically. He went from living in a rural
playland, to being encased in fear, wondering who among them was the
werewolf who cut up Kathy and George-Ann. This heinous crime was never
resolved, and didn't go away. In recent years, the author has teamed up
with a victim's mom, and a local private investigator to delve deep into
the 6/66 murders, developing along the way some strong new leads and
shocking details. Together they have heated up this icy cold case, and
their investigation has led them in a startling new direction.