12 Facts About Ed Savitz

Ed Savitz was one of the four sons of Jewish Russian immigrants Paul and Ann Gechman Savitz.

Ed Savitz won a full scholarship to study economics at the University of Pennsylvania, but dropped out after two years.

Ed Savitz had an apartment on Rittenhouse Square and for years was known by the male youth of the area through word of mouth as a quick source of cash.

Ed Savitz reportedly kept the feces in pizza boxes in his apartment.

Ed Savitz told the boys to eat cheese to make the feces taste better.

Ed Savitz mostly targeted boys from the Schuylkill neighborhood and even had a St John Neumann High School yearbook which he used like a catalogue, circling the pictures of boys he wanted to see and promising referral fees for bringing them to him.

Ed Savitz was first arrested in 1978 on an indecent assault charge.

Ed Savitz's record was expunged after he completed a rehabilitation program.

Ed Savitz told neighbors that he was a social worker, helping the boys.

Ed Savitz was arrested again the next day when bail was raised to twenty million dollars after complaints involving two teenagers were verified.

Ed Savitz died of complications from AIDS in a prison hospice on March 27,1993, one week before the date his trial was set to begin, April 5,1993.

Former Philadelphia child prostitute Greg Bucceroni alleged that in 1979 and 1980 Ed Savitz took him to a fundraiser near Harrisburg for the Second Mile Foundation, which had recently been established by Penn State Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky.