AN IMPOSSIBLE EVENT

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE,
SINCE THE KILLER USED A HAMMER,
and a steak knife,
BUT HE HAD NO GUN.


Bloodbath & burgers

Pa. cops call son Mr. Cool

BY ADAM NICHOLS in Lancaster County, Pa.,
and WARREN WOODBERRY JR. and HELEN KENNEDY in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

As the bludgeoned corpses of three generations of his family lay
moldering inside their picturesque Amish country house, confessed killer
Jesse (Jay) Wise took his girlfriend to McDonald's for hamburgers.

"He was happy. He didn't seem like anything was wrong," Jackie Boots, 16,
told the Daily News.

Wise, 21, whose family divided their time between Brooklyn and rural
Pennsylvania, spent four days carrying on as normal in the cottage-
turned-slaughterhouse after allegedly murdering six relatives - including
the grandmother who raised him and a 5-year-old cousin - on Saturday.

"He stopped over a few times. We went to McDonald's a few times," said
Boots, who has an 11-month-old daughter, Shanique, with Wise. "He
called on Tuesday and said he may [stop by] because he had the baby's Pampers."

Jay Wise, who had a history of run-ins with the law, told police he
wrapped the bodies in blankets and dumped them in the basement,
according to cops. He didn't say why.

He stayed in the white clapboard house with green shutters on Main St. in
tiny Leola, Pa., though walls and ceilings were splattered with blood and hair.

Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Gary Kirchner said five of the victims -
grandmother Emily Wise, 64; her daughters, Wanda Wise, 45, and Agnes
Arlene Wise, 43; and their children Skyler Wise, 19, and Chance Wise, 5 -
each died of a single bash on the head "of incredible force."

"They would have died immediately. It was a vicious blow," he said.

The sixth, Jessie James Wise, 17, was stabbed in the neck and chest with a steak knife.

Family patriarch Jessie L. Wise, 60, was in Brooklyn waiting for the family to visit.
He kept calling the house asking where they were, but his grandson gave
him the runaround.

"The last time I spoke to him was on Wednesday," Jessie Wise said. "I said,
'Nobody showed up,' and he said, 'Poppy, that's not good.' Jay lied to me,
and that's why I feel he did it."

Later that day, Jessie Wise asked a relative in Pennsylvania, Sean
Adams, to go to the house.

Adams, who arrived with a cop, found Jay Wise with a woman named Angie.
"He was acting cool and calm, like nothing ever happened," he said.

Wise and the woman left, and then Adams found little Chance's body. "I
told the police, 'He's a suspect. You need to go get him,'" Adams said.

Police stopped Wise in his car a few blocks away.

His grandfather, Jessie Wise, founder of New York's Federation of Black
Cowboys in Howard Beach, Queens, sought comfort with fellow cowpokes yesterday.

Standing in a long duster, warming himself by a campfire in the rain, he
was utterly numb. "That's my family," he said. "That's all I had. That's
what I worked 40 years for."

He said he and his wife took in their grandson at birth when his son was
unable to take care of him. "I raised him," he said. "Jay has never raised
his voice at his grandmother or me. For 21 years, I never had to raise my
hand at him and that's what's so amazing about him."