Peter Kudzinowski  Peter Kudzinowski (August 13, 1903 – December 21, 1929) was an American serial killer whose known victims were Harry Quinn, five-year-old Julia Mlodzianowski, and seven-year-old Joseph Storelli – for whose murder he went on trial. An alcoholic, he confessed to his crimes while jailed for public intoxication in order to lift the burden of his conscience, stating he committed his murders in an equal state of intoxication. He was sentenced to death by the state of New Jersey after a quick legal process and spent a year on death row before he was executed in the electric chair at Trenton State Prison. Peter Kudzinowski was born on August 13, 1903, in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, to Polish immigrant parents Paul and Veronica. He is frequently and incorrectly referred to as Polish-born. He was the youngest of four boys and grew up in the Scranton area. Kudzinowski suffered a skull fracture in the sixth grade after diving into a shallow pool. This had a noticeable effect on his behavior and he refused to go to school anymore. He subsequently worked a stint in the Lackawanna Coal Mine and later held a job in the Lackawanna Railroad yards in Secaucus. After Kudzinowski was jailed for seven-year-old Joseph Storelli's murder in 1928, he also confessed to two other murders. Kudzinowski murdered 20-year-old Harry Quinn in Scranton on March 8, 1924. The two were friends and were traveling to Spring Brook Township, where Quinn was looking to land a job with the Spring Brook Water Supply Company. Kudzinowski had introduced himself as "Ray Rogers" and "Roy Lambert" to some of Quinn's family members on what turned out to be the last day they would hear anything from Quinn. After the two of them had gotten into an altercation over a bottle of whiskey, Kudzinowski crushed Quinn's head with a rock. Kudzinowski's older brother later recalled that Peter came to visit him, told him he had been in a scrape, and needed money to leave town, without mentioning what had actually happened. Not having heard from Quinn in a few years, his family members presumed he had abandoned them and had been looking to get in touch with him through newspaper advertisements. Kudzinowski also admitted to murdering Julia Mlodzianowski, a five-year-old girl from Jersey City, who was at a school picnic at Lake Hopatcong on August 19, 1928.