Further reading of Joseph Kallinger:
Edge of Madness – The Story of Joseph Kallinger (A True Crime Quickie Book 4)
Joe Palczynski was a body builder and electrician with a lengthy list history of domestic violence and closely related crimes. For years he was in and out of both prison and mental institutions he had been in a standoff in Idaho that lasted 16 hours, but that wasn’t enough to put him away for good.
In March of 2000 in a quiet suburb of Baltimore, and area not acquainted with violence or many crimes, Joe’s ex girlfriend, Tracy Whitehead, was staying with George and Gloria Shenk, she had just left him and was planning on getting a place of her own. It was at their house that Joe came and kind napped Tracy and shot and killed both George, Gloria and their neighbor David Meyers.
For ten days Joe was able to stay under the radar as a manhunt for him began. He murdered a fourth victim, Jennifer Mcdonnel as he tried to hijack her car, a bullet ricocheted and struck her, she died in front of her family. Along the way Whitehead was able to escape her captor while at a hotel, she saw police and took off running to them for help.
Joe’s spree came to an end, when he was able to make to Tracy Whiteheads parents house where he took both her parent and her younger brother hostage for 97 hours. Joe ignored the police and negotiators, firing shots at random. The neighborhood was evacuated people were told to see shelter at local schools etc. In the end Whitehead’s parents took control of the situation, they laced a drink for Joe with Xanax and he fell into a deep drug induced sleep. They then escaped out the window, leaving behind their young son asleep on the kitchen floor, fearing for the boys life police broke into the home and shot him numerous times killing him.
The shoemaker…
Joseph Kallinger’s story starts off as the kind where you just really want to feel bad for the guy, then you hear all the horrible shit he does to people and you think, nope, dude is a total waste. Kallinger was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and had a very troubling history with domestic violence.
That is why it is so much worse that his children were involved as both victims of his murders and as his partner in crime. Its a start to finish horrid story of abuse and murder.
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