Miscellaneous
Willowbrook State Hospital is mentioned in the 2009 documentary movie Cropsey, as having reportedly housed convicted child kidnapper Andre Rand, who had previously worked there as an orderly. One of Rand's supposed victims, Jennifer Schweiger, was found buried in a shallow grave behind the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook State School which was built under the same design as Pilgrim State Hospital. In 2011, a former resident of Willowbrook State School, a savant named Anthony Torrone wrote a Christian prayer book titled Anthony's Prayers that was inspired by his time and the abuse he experienced at the school.
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