Forgot to post the link.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-libody0217,0,141600.story
Thank you very much for the added information from the far-superior article than the one I posted here. I originally found the story at FoxNews, but knowing that FR required FoxNews articles to be heavily edited I looked further so that I could post the whole article for people's convenience. I hadn't run across the Newsday version, but I seem to recall that FR required Newsday to be heavily edited as well? It's hard to remember all of the sites that you can and can't post from!
Anyway, I appreciate the additional information that you provided. Apparently he did have a few aquaintances, but it sounds like he got to be a cranky person and didn't exactly provide a magnetic attraction for other people. It's a real shame.....and a situation that a religious affiliation would probably have prevented.