Feel Good February 22, β March 27, was an American criminal, businessman, and sexual predator , who was arrested for paying thousands of boys and young men for either engaging in anal and oral sex or for giving him their dirty underwear and feces , which he kept in pizza boxes in his apartment. The Savitzes ran an amusement arcade in downtown Philadelphia. Ed ranked first in his class of students at West Philadelphia High School , and voted most likely to succeed.
He won a full scholarship to study economics at the University of Pennsylvania , but dropped out after two years. In , also after two years' study, he quit Temple University's graduate school of music. In , he married his high school girlfriend Judith Widman, who later became a lawyer specializing in family law. They were divorced 10 years later. In , his brother Joseph, a lawyer who once served as a Deputy Pennsylvania Attorney General , used barbiturates to die by suicide.
Ed Savitz had an apartment on Rittenhouse Square and for years was known by the male youth of the area through word of mouth as a quick source of cash. From as far back as , he offered teenage boys money, concert tickets, and football tickets for their soiled underwear and various sexual acts including: oral and anal sex; slamming his penis in a door; penis sword fights; urinating on him; vomiting in his mouth; and defecating in his mouth through a potty chair.
He reportedly kept the feces in pizza boxes in his apartment. He told the boys to eat cheese to make the feces taste better. Savitz mostly targeted boys from the Schuylkill neighborhood and even had a St. John Neumann High School yearbook which he used like a catalogue, circling the pictures of boys he wanted to see and promising referral fees for bringing them to him. Savitz was first arrested in on an indecent assault charge.
His record was expunged after he completed a rehabilitation program. In , he was found not guilty on charges relating to the purchase of a minor's soiled underwear. The neighbors in his high-rise apartment building complained of young boys entering and leaving his apartment at all hours of the day and night. One neighbor described the boys she saw as mostly " heavy metal types," who wore black leather clothes and chains and had long hair.
