It was dark -- around 6 a.m. -- when she arrived at her job as a nurse aide at the Staten Island Developmental Center on the grounds of the former Willowbrook State School. Workers heard the 46 ...

Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie. “Cropsey ...

when the old Willowbrook State School for the mentally handicapped was shut down. Zeman and Brancaccio later bonded over their memories of the Rand trial and the Cropsey stories, and when Rand was ...

having thought to have been kidnapped and murdered by a vicious killer only known by the ominous name “Cropsey.” Andre Rand, a former Willowbrook ward attendant from 1966 to 1968, was found ...

The events recalled within Cropsey unfold a bit like a horror movie ... lived underneath (and around the grounds of) the abandoned Willowbrook State School, an institution for children with ...

In a new documentary, "Cropsey," filmmakers and former borough ... rumored to live in the abandoned tunnels beneath the former Willowbrook State School? Or was Rand a convenient scapegoat for ...

Despite a lack of physical evidence, the man serving time, the presumed "Cropsey," is Andre Rand. He's a compelling villain: A former employee of Willowbrook who did indeed squat and camp on its ...

This is one of many variations on the Cropsey tale that will come to have a chilling truth attached. Social Neglect at Willowbrook State School Shaped the Cropsey Urban Legend A large part of the ...

Cropsey will be available via Video on Demand June 2nd ... We went back to Staten Island and we were hiking through the woods that run around Willowbrook and in the middle of the woods was a rusted ...

For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off ...