Vincent LaMarca is an American former

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. His story was adapted to the film ''

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'', in which he was portrayed by

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. When Vincent was 11, his father,

Angelo LaMarca Peter Weinberger (June 2, 1956 - July 12, 1956) was a one-month-old infant who was kidnapped for ransom on July 4, 1956, in New York state. The case gained national notoriety likely due to the circumstances of the kidnapping and the victim's ...

, was executed for the murder of Peter Weinberger, the result of a botched kidnapping; Angelo had stolen Weinberger from a bassinet on the porch of the baby's home, panicked, and ditched the child near a freeway exit where he died of suffocation in a honeysuckle patch. His family was 'adopted' by the local police department, and LaMarca eventually ended up joining the same police force that had captured and helped in the prosecution of his father. In 1990, his son, Joey (who he hadn't seen in years), murdered a drug dealer, James Winston, whom he was trying to rob, later claiming that murder was in his genes.

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