When he is served a plate of Mediterranean vegetable pasta by the charming French chef, he thanks her profusely and leaning towards the Polishman opposite him asks if he would kindly pass the salt?
He was unabashed in his mannerisms aman who seemed to live so fully inside this hexed world of suicide that he had little time for polish or polite chitchat or getting-to-know-you.
Conrad Zdzierak, a 30-year-old Polish immigrant, used one of Slusser's masks to disguise himself as a black man during a series of Ohio robberies last spring.