As actor Tom Hanks, director Brian De Palma and their crew began filming The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Tom Wolfe novel that portrays the Bronx as a crime-ridden community, some residents complained that the movie would give the place a bad image. But not far from the movie action, a more terrifying, true-life drama was taking place: for the sixth time in seven weeks, a cabdriver was found dead on the streets.
Police suspect that at least three of the murders were committed by the same man, who called for the cabs during the early-morning hours, shot the drivers in...
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