old person. Soon my man would swoon. Then I would close the orifices of the body with cotton, stuffing it in the ears, nostrils, and so on. Next I would pour a little chloroform down the throat and prevent the fumes escaping the same way. Mors also claimed that the home's superintendent had encouraged him to kill the more ill and more elderly patients. The district attorney declined to prosecute Mors, finding him to be criminally insane, and committed him to the Hudson River State Hospital, pending deportation to Austria. Mors escaped from the institution in May 1916. In 1917 he surfaced in Torrington, Connecticut living under the alias Frederick Maurice Beno working in the first aid department of Turner & Seymour Company. He used the same birthday as Mors in a World War I draft registration. He also sent three letters saying he was the same person that had killed 8 people in New York. He left notes of suicidal intent and disappeared in April 1918. A skeletonized corpse was discovered in May 1923 that was identified as his by officials who examined the remains at the time. The remains had been there for at least four years and was identified partially based on the type of shoes both Mors and Beno were known to have worn. Two bottles were found nearby that was presumed to be poison. See also List of serial killers in the United States References 1889 births 1914 murders in the United States 1918 suicides American escapees American serial killers Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States Escapees from New York (state) detention Fugitives Male serial killers Medical serial killers Murder in New York City People from Vienna People with narcissistic personality disorder Poisoners Suicides by poison Suicides in Connecticut