It was the early afternoon of July 20, 1941 when a vacationing Philadelphia family went out crabbing in Skunk Sound, a tributary off Cape May harbor. Seeing a bundle half protruding from the water they investigated. "It looked like something in brown wrapping paper," the family patriarch recalled. "It stuck up about a foot out of the water. We rowed over and felt it. And what we felt was a human foot."
The foot belonged to fifty-two year old Philly gangster John "Chink" Goodman, who had a record dating back to 1903 when he was arrested for being a pickpocket. Since that time he had been picked up about 20 times in his home city as well as others for everything including murder. He served time for grand larceny and passing counterfeit money. He was also a member of Mickey Duffy's gang back in Prohibition times.
Authorities stated that Goodman ran a string of disorderly houses as well as running numbers and bootlegging. Cause of death was an extreme blows to face and head. His body was then trussed up in an army tent and bound with sash cord and clothes line. His killers drove the body to the Cape May area and tossed the grisly package off of a bridge. Though there was a concrete block attached. Air filled out and the shroud rose high enough in the water for the crabbing family to discover.
John Chink Goodman
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