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They then started ransacking the apartment. Knight was a strong, muscular man and didn’t give in easily, but the intruders, using belts, ties, and socks, eventually tied his legs and hands behind his back and gagged his mouth. Melendez and the third accomplice, Salvatore Soli, forced Knight to his bedroom and began to beat him. According to a statement made later by one of the men, 25-year-old Steven Maleno, the man who made the call was Isais (“Felix”) Melendez. Knight eventually opened the door, and the man pushed past him, followed by two other men. The caller pleaded with him and made a ruckus in the hallway. Knight explained he couldn’t let him in - he was entertaining guests. A half hour later, the doorbell rang, and Knight answered: it was the phone caller. Knight explained to McKinnon that the caller was someone who procured women for him. Her husband and Knight drank brandy and reminisced ahout college days.
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Everyone had a nice glow on but no one was drunk, and “the evening was one of the most pleasant imaginable.” Around midnight, the Janensches said goodnight, took Ellen Roche to her car, leaving Knight and the McKinnons free to return to his $1050-a-month apartment at the Dorchester on Rittenhouse Square. According to Janensch, there was just enough to drink. McKinnon and Knight had been roommates at Harvard). If the dinner had a purpose, it was to celebrate the McKinnons’ visit to Philadelphia (Dr. Paul Janensch (Janensch was Knight’s boss and is the managing editor of the Philadelphia Daily News), and Dr. Knight had been to South Dakota a few weeks before - he was a huntsman and had shot pheasant and arranged for four of the birds to be roasted and served in a wine sauce. The evening started with a dinner at La Truffe, a fine French restaurant on Front Street. The killing took place on a Saturday night. Knight’s death was shocking, the circumstances behind the killing macabre, and the underlying social implications horrifying. And just now, the tragic, senseless death of a friend and fellow newspaperman has left me baffled, bitter, and shocked.” “The last thing I wanted to see was a murder mystery with frivolous comic overtones … Never have I felt that killing was amusing. Now that he’s dead, I have come to know that he was more complex than that.” Jonathan Takiff, the News‘s theater critic, panned “Murder Among Friends” which opened the night following Knight’s death. Larry McMullen claimed, “I made him too simple. Columnists at the Daily News who knew young John wrote odes. Knight and the only grandson of 81-year-old John Shively Knight, newspaper patriarch, modern day Citizen Kane, whose empire of 35 publications is the largest in the country. Knight III was the 30-year-old son of the late John S.
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But if the killing was an act of passion precipitated by jealousy and the victim’s gayness, or a get-rich-quick scheme to rob a closet homosexual, what else do you call it? Parcheesi? No matter how you slice it, the Knight murder comes out gay. If the motive was robbery and, lo and behold, the victim happened to be homosexual, I can see it strictly as a case of murder. “Police sources said they found photographs of nude young men along with a diary that recounted ‘intimate homosexual encounters between Knight and various male prostitutes and hustlers.” Since when has the Advocate been so moralistic about nude young men and hustlers’? Another quote by a tambourine thumper in the same story was “No one knows the number of gay people who will be negatively affected by the murder.” Could that mean turn heterosexual? Give up fucking? Let the dishes pile? The Los Angeles Advocate, which, in the January 14 issue ran 238 classified ads for”model/masseurs,” headlined a news brief “Murder Probe Angers Gays.” Later on, we learn the anger was at the revelation by police of the homosexually incriminating evidence in Knight’s apartment. An angry article in Gay Community News quoted a media spokesman as saying “Knight’s interests were not the normal average interests of a gay male at all.” I wish somebody would tell me what those normal average interests are. As expected, the gay press underplayed the Knight murder.