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1:14Now PlayingIn this episode of "Crazy Interesting Posts": On April 14, 1983, a 23-year-old named Charles Dingle, of Brooklyn, had been drinking at Herbie’s Bar in Jamaica when he shot owner Herbert Cummings, 51, in the head. He held four women hostage and, drinking heavily and snorting cocaine, he raped one of the dancers and robbed the others.
While rummaging in the bar manager’s purse, he found her business card, which revealed she also worked as a mortician.
He ordered her to dig the bullet out of Cummings’ head so his gun could not be tied to the murder. After she was unable to retrieve the bullet, he forced her to decapitate him with a steak knife.
After terrorizing the women in the bar for hours, he released two of them and then hijacked a gypsy cab and took the other two with him — along with the severed head in a box. He drove to Manhattan and parked on Broadway and 168th Street, where he passed out behind the wheel.
The two hostages escaped and told a transit cop of the horror.
Dingle was convicted of murder, kidnapping, rape and robbery. He was sentenced to 25 years to life.
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