Andre Rand, born Frank Rostum Rushan is a convicted sex offender and suspected serial killer that drifted around Staten Island. He was convicted of first the 1987 kidnapping of Jennifer Schweiger, and then in 2004 the 1981 kidnapping of Holly Anne Hughes. Staten Island filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio who both grew up in Staten Island with the urban legend of Cropsey- the urban legend of an escaped mental patient who lived in the abandoned tunnels and buildings of Willowbrook State School felt that the legend became real to them with Jennifer's disappearance. The documentary Cropsey covers the case of Andre Rand and his conviction in both cases, but leaves the viewer with more questions than answers. This episode covers not only the disappearance of Jennifer Schweiger and Holly Anne Hughes, but also other cases linked to Rand including Alice Periera, Tiahease Jackson, Hank Gafforio, Sylvia Alice Lwowski, Audrey Lyn Nerenburg, Shin Lee, Ethel Louise Atwell, and Brenda Cecilia Crowley. The full episode transcript can be found here: https://www.nydarksidepodcast.com/episodes-1-5/episode-2-the-pied-piper-of-staten-island-andre-rand/episode-transcript For all references and more information, please view my blog post for this episode at https://nydarksidepod.blogspot.com Theme music for this podcast comes from a portion of: Nightmare Machine Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nydarkside/message
