A Murder Victim Found in His Bed Had a Colorful Past - Everyone had a story, some not worth telling, but few were as compelling as Guido Felix Brinkmann’s. Mr. Brinkmann, known as Felix, managed Adam’s Apple, a disco on First Avenue on the Upper East Side, and while others would boast of their money, sexual prowess and dancing skills, he could speak of having avoided death four times at Auschwitz, according to a close friend.
“Felix is one tough man who lived a life that people could only imagine going through,” said Richard Dietl, known as Bo, a private investigator, former police detective and a semicelebrity himself, who said he had been friends with Mr. Brinkmann since 1971.
On Thursday, July 30 2009, Mr. Brinkmann, 89, was found dead in his apartment at 435 East 65th Street by his building superintendent just before 6 p.m. Someone had called the superintendent because Mr. Brinkmann had not shown up at his job in the Bronx.