A 25 year old Mexican national was arrested, Monday January 4 for the stabbing death of Bennett "Ben" Bradley.  Jose Fructuoso now sits in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, after confessing to killing Bradley, who was his lover. 

This is better than any play produced by the Fountain.  The sordid and lurid details about what happened the night of the murder and the full extent of Ben and Jose's relationship will probably never come out because he confessed, but the possibilities, from a playwrights stand point are endless. 

I suspected that this may have been the scenario when I first heard Ben was stabbed to death, because stabbing is pretty common among crimes of passion.  Also, I've know two other gay men who have died in the exact same fashion.  They were all in the theatre and all found dead, by the hands of their paramours.  One was in Ibiza and the other was in Harlem, he frequented bath houses, in Harlem there are still bath houses, at least there were when he was murdered about ten years ago. 

What a dramatic end to Ben's seemingly uneventful life.  I'm sorry I didn't delve deeper into his story when I had the chance.  But then again, perhaps the most intriguing part of some lives are not the beginning and the middle but the end.  This story is definitely one that would hold more interest if it began at the end.