Alexander declined to provide details on the two other slayings in which Spahalski may have been involved, other than to say they occurred in the city in the past 10 years or so. He said investigators are looking at other cases as well, both in Rochester and elsewhere. Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering, who called Spahalski "an incredibly dangerous individual," said he was not currently suspected of involvement in any other slayings in Webster.

Robert Spahalski has an identical twin brother - and that brother, Stephen J. Spahalski, made headlines when he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to prison in 1972 at age 17. That case involved the stabbing death of a store clerk in Elmira Heights.

After surrendering himself to police Tuesday morning, Robert Spahalski provided a four-page signed statement about the Grande killing. In that document, he asserted that Grande met him downtown and agreed to take him to his Phillips Road home and pay him $60 for sex, as they had done before.

But when Grande only wanted to pay him $40, Spahalski said he grew angry and Grande punched him. "He was very strong and I felt it but that wasn't going to keep me from getting paid," Spahalski's statement said.

He said he grabbed a nearby hammer and struck Grande in the head three or four times, bludgeoning him to death. Grande's nude body was found on his bedroom floor on Oct. 4, 1991. In his statement, Spahalski said he turned up the heat to aid decomposition.

The man's family knew of Spahalski's connection at the time but watched, frustrated, as police were unable to develop evidence to arrest him then.

"They didn't dare charge him unless the case was ironclad, which it was not. We knew, and he knew we knew, but there wasn't anything we could do about it, really - just wait for time to pass," Rose Van Dusen, Charles Grande's sister, said Wednesday.

"It's been 14 years. It's been a long wait, but it's finally over. There's no relief. I'm not happy or anything. But justice is justice, whether it comes in 14 days or 14 years. I'm glad that part of it is over," Van Dusen said.

In his signed statement, Spahalski said "I felt terrible" about killing Grande and prayed for him every day. He said he wanted to apologize to Grande's family. Two days before Grande's body was found, a man later identified as Spahalski had been pulled over in Rochester driving Grande's car, in the company of a suspected female prostitute. According to his statement, Spahalski presented Grande's driver's license to the officer and identified himself as the Webster man. Rochester police let him go but sent a report to Webster police.

After authorities learned Grande had been killed and determined he was not driving the car when it was stopped by police, Spahalski was located and arrested on a criminal impersonation charge. He was acquitted of that charge in a jury trial in August 1992, however. A Democrat and Chronicle story published in October 1992 said jurors felt the police officer's description of Spahalski did not match his actual appearance.

Pickering said Spahalski's admission in the Grande slaying came, apparently coincidentally, just as Webster police were preparing to present evidence against him to a grand jury.

He said Webster officials had asked the New York State Police cold case squad to look into Grande's unsolved killing this spring, and the State Police recommended some followup investigative steps several months ago.

Those actions - checking fingerprint and DNA evidence from the crime scene against modern computer databases - bore fruit two weeks ago, Pickering said.

Webster police were going to take the evidence to a grand jury "soon," he said. Pickering said he did not believe that Spahalski was aware that Webster police were closing in on him.

That area was the epicenter of a series of unsolved slayings of women. One victim, Victoria Jobson, lived in the same building as Spahalski. Another victim lived across the street. Several others lived not far away.

All told, more than 30 Rochester-area women were killed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Many of them were drug users or prostitutes whose presence on the streets made them especially vulnerable.

Eleven of those cases were closed with the January 1990 arrest of Arthur J. Shawcross, a paroled child killer living in Rochester. Police later ascribed an unknown number of other killings to Gates resident John White, who died of a heart attack in September 1994 without being criminally charged.

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