Carter and Burbach Records

Kip's research (Session 7) into the two clockwork marionettes shot down in the night-floors hallway. The wallet IDs — Eric K. Carter (1953) and Ronald Burbach (1955) — resolve into two real men: decorated WW2 and Korea veterans from New York City, murdered together in 1955. Sources: internet, city criminal records, military records, and a single printout from the CDT.

The Murder — 9 SEP 1955

City criminal records hold two files.

The first: Ronald James Burbach was arrested 1 JUN 1953 at the American Museum of Natural History for breaking and entering. He admitted nothing, was jailed, and a week later was ordered released by NYPD Commissioner Francis William Holbrooke Adams — sole reason listed: "decorated veteran." All charges dropped.

The second: the 9 SEP 1955 murder of R. Burbach and E. Carter at an unnamed New York City hotel. A single typewritten page, thin on detail. One black-and-white crime-scene photograph shows two men laid out in heavy military jackets, the skin of their faces carefully removed — blood and muscle exposed — beside a pile of old gas masks and shotguns. Person of interest listed: Griffith, Virgil, U. (White Plains, NY).

The Crew Watched This Murder Re-Performed

Carter and Burbach were **run down and shot by gas-masked gunmen** in the night-floors hallway (Session 6), then found as marionettes. Now the record: two vets **actually murdered together in a NYC hotel in 1955**, laid out with **gas masks and shotguns** — the exact weapons the crew saw — **and their faces skinned off.** The night floors are not inventing scenes; they are **re-staging a real 1955 killing** on a loop, with the victims rebuilt as puppets. The **skinned faces** are almost certainly the **"faceless people"** David warned about.

Gas Masks, Shotguns, and the WW2 Thread

The murder weapons/props — **gas masks and shotguns** — tie the 1955 killing to the case's running **WW2 motif** (the WW2 Backpack Radio, the gas-masked gunmen). Both victims were combat veterans; whatever happened in that hotel used the imagery of the war they fought in.

The Legal Brief — 12 FEB 1956

A digitized legal brief, Antonia Sclara Carter (Widow) v. Eileen Carter, dated 12 FEB 1956, confirms Eric Kristos Carter was murdered in an unnamed NYC hotel in 1955. His widow Antonia and his mother Eileen sued each other over his personal effects and Army pension. The document is a summary only — the outcome is not recorded, and nothing further on the case exists online or off.

Military Records

Eric K. Carter (1924–1955): drafted 1943 at 19, served the European Theater. Late in the war his file goes spotty — he moved all over Germany as part of a special SS-hunting detachment granted rare "theater-wide" clearance (free movement across the entire ETO). Returned 1946 as first lieutenant. Re-upped 1950 for Korea; came home after a year with "battle fatigue."
Ronald Burbach (1924–1955): volunteered for the Marines in 1944 at 20. Spent a year-plus staging for the planned invasion of Japan on Itik Atoll. Returned 1946 as corporal. Reactivated with the 1st Marine Division for Korea, landed at Incheon (1950), was injured, sent home to convalesce.
No indication the two served together — but both were NYC men, both drafted at 24-years-of-age cohort (b. 1924), both broken by their second war, both dead in the same hotel in 1955.

Carter's SS-Hunting Detachment

A **special detachment hunting SS** across Germany with **theater-wide clearance** is an unusual posting, and the file **thins out** exactly there. In a case that welds the **Goetic apparatus** (Hygromanteia), the **Yellow Sign**, and **dream-built architecture** together, a soldier with unexplained free run of occupied Germany at the end of the war is worth a second look — cf. the Decraig Box and the case's occult-provenance thread.

Open Questions

Who is Virgil Griffith of White Plains — the only named person of interest, and the sole lead on who skinned and killed the two vets?
Is the "unnamed NYC hotel" of both the murder file and the legal brief the McAllistor Building — or the Hotel Broadalbin?
Why was Burbach breaking into the American Museum of Natural History in 1953 — and why did the police commissioner personally spring him? (Museum + occult-object motif; cf. the Dallas museum and R. Pickman.)
Did the case (widow v. mother, 1956) ever resolve — and where did Carter's effects and pension go?