When the Late Gere Rock Tried to KILL Your Editor with a Tire Iron --- D.A. Joe Early back then was the ADA, Gere Got 5 Years Suspended Sentence

 the Mad Slasher, Gere Rock, ex Playboy Bunny tried to kill me twice.

You can hear Mike McGlynn "I'm sorry she missed!"

Photo by Joe Caulfield

Story by the late Eugene A. Sylvester, Editor of the Wakefield Daily Chronicle  1988 

guilty" ( is the final word on the next column)

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I'll cut and paste some of the story, here's my perspective, from the victim's  pen:

Gere Rock was a piece of work.  Her husband said to me "Her sister is crazy too.  One of them is certified."   It was probably Gere's sister that was locked up in some asylum in Ohio, her hubby winding me up and insinuating that his crazed wife was the certified one.  

The court then "certified" her in 1989 (July 13) for her acts of violence with  2 1/2 years probation, a 5 year suspended sentence...she died on December 19, 1992 while still under the jail sentence.

This is when I managed the studio where The New Kids on the Block, Brad Delp of the band Boston and others recorded.  Gere came at me with a knife in Medford and with a tire iron in Westford, MA.  She attacked her own son with a knife (he died in England from a heroin overdose,) and her husband with a knife (he died in Colorado from alcoholism.)

The ex-girlfriend of Vic Damone, famous lounge singer from the 1960s who traded up and married Diahann Carroll...(safe move there, wouldn't you say?)  Gere terrorized many, many people.

 

Jo Jo and I were on the phone with her husband's mother when we heard of Gere's passing.   "Is it true?" we asked my good friend, Gere's mother-in-law. "She's dead" the woman said sarcastically and matter of factly.  Jo Jo started humming "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead."  

Few mourned Gere, perhaps her husband and her son Michael and no one else.

The planet had expelled a virus. 

It is said that her ashes were scattered over the Mystic River in Medford off the bridge to Somerville (heading to Assembly Square mall,) though I cannot confirm that.  

 

If so, the witch probably haunts the river to this day.

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From the article.  Do they put women in MCI CONCORD?  Or was editor Sylvester employing dramatic effect?

On August 10, 1988 - 33 years ago - she broke into my home atop the recording studio and stabbed Jo Jo Laine in the breast while she and her 5 year old son (who now calls himself my stepson, and who now has a child of his own as of this year, which makes me the wicked gay old grand stepdad or something) ...were sleeping in my apartment.  Two nights later on August 12, 1988 crazee Geraldine breaks into my bedroom and pulls a tire iron out of her blue jeans (neat trick if you can do it.)

We had a sliding glass door looking out into the Westwood forest and Geraldine had quietly walked up the stairs to the 2nd floor entrance.  Pulling the tire iron out of her pants she starts coming at me.

The 2 x 4 wooden block that locked the sliding door was to my right.  I picked it up and raised it over my head saying, and I remember exactly what I said "Come at me cxxt, you are in MY home where I can protect myself."   Old Gere thought about it for a moment or two and skedaddled out the back door and into the night.

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