It became obvious to anyone who spend a few minutes with the man that he was a complete nutjob, but the State was really after 'justice', so he was found sane enough to distinguish right from wrong. They had five children. During his New Jersey trial, he sometimes moaned and babbled incoherently and would foam at the mouth. As she feared, Maria Fasching had indeed drowned in her own blood. [2], Kallinger was born on December 11, 1935, as Joseph Lee Brenner III at the Northern Liberties Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joseph Lee Brenner, Jr. and his wife Judith. As he left the prison the guards, obviously relieved that he was going, yelled after him, Dont forget to take Charlie with you!. Bound as he was he couldnt see anything but he heard enough to assume that Maria was being raped. He was stable for several months and was promoted to workshop supervisor. Felcher also explained why Kallingers name was misspelled on the laundry mark. In his first attempt, Joe tried to make the boy back off a cliff, cartoon-style, while posing for photographs. Joey and Michael told how their father had tied them to a radiator and beat them with hammer handles and strips of leather taken from his workshop. [12] He spent the last 11 years of his life on suicide watch. The defense had produced documentary evidence that suggested Kallinger, having worked as a shoe repairer for may years, had been inhaling the fumes of a leather treatment that contained Toluene, a dangerous chemical substance that can numb the senses and damage the brain. "The Story of Joseph Kallinger" examines the horrifying account of a knife-wielding shoemaker who kills under the command of Charlie, a floating head. The Jersey jury took two hours to decide the same, this time of murder, robbery, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. 42. He was then transferred to a mental hospital in Philadelphia on May 18, 1979. Fumbling for the light switch, Quinton turned it on to reveal the body of a young woman slumped in a corner. Unknown to Roseman, the Philadelphia computer had already drawn a blank on the name search because it was looking for a different spelling but the officer Roseman spoke to recognized the sound of the name, not the way it was spelled.