THE EASTBOUND STRANGLER

Teacher Jack is an expert camper. He loves camping in extreme weather, but the most extreme conditions that he faced was in the swamp of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Teacher Jack began camping there in 1999. He was searching for the treasure of Blackbeard. ” According to my mathematical calculations, the treasure of the pirate called Blackbeard lies in the forgotten swamps of Atlantic City and not Brigantine as many tourists and residents there believe.”-Teacher Jack. Teacher Jack set up camp in a small grove of trees surounded by swamp. He gambled at night and slept during the day. In the afternoon, he searched for Blackbeard’s treasure. He was a regular and an icon at the Club True and Studio Six and Brass Rail (a gay bar underneath Studio Six). Teacher Jack dated all the Black transvestites there. Mortimer Spreng, a bartender and drag queen at Studio Six, remembers Teacher Jack well . He was a witness to everything Teacher Jack did in those clubs in Atlantic City. When the Eastbound Strangler claimed his four victims, Teacher Jack knew who it was. ” I know the identity of the Eastbound Strangler.”- Teacher Jack. Teacher Jack knows this because of his extensive camping experience in the swamps of Atlantic City. During winter, Teacher Jack relied on his Coleman Black Cat heater inside his tent with his sleeping bag and cot. He cleverly connected his Coleman Black Cat heater to a large propane tank. This lasted for months. However, when the propane tank was depleted he often slept at the Golden Key Motel and a few other motels along that strip. He enjoyed this time because he socialized with as many people as possible there. They all loved him there. He would purchase a case of beer and play spades with prostitutes and criminals for cash. ” All the girls were chasing crack cocaine and I was just drinking and having fun.”- Teacher Jack . It was here that Teacher Jack played spades with, who he alone believes, was the Eastbound Strangler. “He was an army vet who suffered a brain injury in a helicopter crash. He shared a room with a Black guy whose girlfriend was a lifelong prostitute. The prostitute thought I was so handsome and the guys liked to play spades with me. The army vet had to take antipsychotic medicine to keep himself from going crazy. I always sat close to the door when we played spades in case he did. He always wore a green wife beater shirt and just looked crazy. He was a White male about age 55. He had short light brown hair and would stare often. His Black friend did everything to keep him from going crazy because the army vet was getting a monthly check from the US government. They used this money to buy crack cocaine and then sell it, I think. A lot of White girls would come and go. That is how I recognized the victims. The police made the mistake of calling this a serial killing, it just showed how incompetent they were. Atlantic City does not work that way. If you get hurt or killed, then you ripped somebody off. In my opinion, these four girls ripped them off and paid the consequences. “-Teacher Jack. Teacher Jack’s own campsite was less than a hundred yards away from the crime scene in a place that Eric, who had a Nazi swatstika on his right forearm and worked for Atlantic City Public Works, called “Hollywood Bowl”. Eric and his girlfriend would play Texas Hold’em with Teacher Jack and his wife on Thursday nights. They knew each other from Kelly’s Corner Pub where Teacher Jack’s nine piece blues band performed for the first time. Teacher Jack detested Eric’s Nazi tattoo on his forearm, but Eric defended it , saying it was his German heritage. The two were actually friends who should have been enemies and chose to simply quietly agreed to tolerate each other. Teacher Jack’s campsite still remains there. “I was not alone back there, there was someone else. One winter night, I came back to my tent and it was gone. In its place was a cross stuck in the ground. All my stuff inside the tent was gone too. I was terrified because I was alone at night in the woods/swamps and I had no weapons of any kind on me. So I moved my campsite to a better place, following the railroad tracks to Atlantic City Convention Center. I do hope that they catch the killers so that I can retrieve my stuff and that closure is brought to the families of the four victims. In my tent you will find: one Colemen Black Cat heater, one large propane tank, one pay stub from Atlantic City high school, a small collection of teacher’s shirts and ties, many old casino cards including one from the Sands, $8,665 dollars in Taj Mahal and Borgata casino chips and an Ak-47 assault rifle with 8 magazines. Near the train bridge that crosses over to the Convention Center you will find an inflatable raft with paddles. Beware in any attempt to locate these items because the area is absolutely tick infested. “-Teacher Jack.