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Golden State Killer: These links will bring you through a multi-year manhunt for the Golden State Killer via Los Angeles Magazine

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http://www.lamag.com/thejump/editors-note-a-manhunt-begins-anew/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/the-five-most-popular-myths-about-the-golden-state-killer-case/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/the-evidence-locker-inside-the-case-of-the-golden-state-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/profile-of-a-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/in-the-footsteps-of-a-killer-the-writers-cut/ http://www.lamag.com/longform/in-the-footsteps-of-a-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/hear-the-golden-state-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/digital-data-mining-101/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/golden-state-killer-the-making-of-a-manhunt/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/update-in-the-footsteps-of-a-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/new-evidence-investigators-release-a-third-recording-believed-to-be-of-the-golden-state-killers-voice-nsfw/ http://www.lamag.com/thejump/golden-state-killer-update-one-victims-family-responds-to-our-coverage-of-the-cold-case/ http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/update-investigators-have-a-new-lead-on-the-golden-state-killer/ http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/update-was-the-golden-state-killer-a-cowboy/ http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/dna-golden-state-killer/ Continue reading Golden State Killer: These links will bring you through a multi-year manhunt for the Golden State Killer via Los Angeles Magazine

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Louise Pietrewicz: After 51 years the truth of a disappearance surfaces

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Remains believed to be those of Louise Pietrewicz, a Cutchogue farmer’s wife who vanished suddenly in October 1966, were unearthed Monday in the basement of the Southold house her married boyfriend, former Southold police officer William Boken, shared with his wife and children. After digging last Thursday and finding nothing, Southold police and county investigators returned to the home on Lower Road, this time armed with more specific information as to where the remains were, and dug deeper than before. By late morning they came upon a burlap bag wrapped around skeletal remains and the brightly colored remnants of a … Continue reading Louise Pietrewicz: After 51 years the truth of a disappearance surfaces

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Louise Pietrewicz: For a daughter, there is peace and closure after mother’s remains found

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by Steve Wick | 03/23/2018 6:00 AM For Sandy Blampied, the news that arrived Monday — that remains believed to be her mother’s were discovered buried in the basement of a house in Southold — has brought peace. “Oh my God, this is indescribable,” she said. “This was something we had always hoped for, but when it happened I could not believe it was true.” After hearing the news, she spoke to her uncle, Leo Jasinski, her mother’s sole surviving sibling. “He just wept,” Ms. Blampied said. “He is 92. We always wanted him to know something before he passed. … Continue reading Louise Pietrewicz: For a daughter, there is peace and closure after mother’s remains found

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After remains discovered, still more must be done-Louise Pietrewicz Can Rest in Peace

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Caption: William Boken, center, with fellow Southold Police Department officers in a photo that has long hung on the wall at police headquarters in Peconic. The truth arrived in Southold Monday morning when Suffolk County investigators and town detectives dug deep into the basement of a house on Lower Road and found skeletal remains wrapped in burlap. A woman’s skeletal remains. They could see the remnants of a brightly colored dress she had worn on the very last day of her life. The home was once owned by William Boken, who up until the fall of 1966 was a Southold … Continue reading After remains discovered, still more must be done-Louise Pietrewicz Can Rest in Peace

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Cold Case But Not Forgotten-State Police BCI Investigator Tom Cioffi Hunts for the Killer of Katherine Kolodziej

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Clues still being sought in death of college teen more than 36 years ago By BRYAN FITZGERALD Special To The Times Union Published: 12:00 a.m., Monday, January 3, 2011 COBLESKILL — The life of Katherine Kolodziej is divided into three cardboard boxes. Her last name is written on each in black marker. Two are at the State Police barracks in Rotterdam, the other at their station in Cobleskill. Inside are photos of the 17-year-old blonde, blue-eyed Long Island native smiling for her class picture, along with her public records and letters she received from her mother. So is Kolodziej’s autopsy … Continue reading Cold Case But Not Forgotten-State Police BCI Investigator Tom Cioffi Hunts for the Killer of Katherine Kolodziej

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2013 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. Continue reading 2013 in review

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Three Billboards, One for Each Decade

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From Newsday By JOSEPH MALLIA         joseph.mallia@newsday.com Nearly four decades after a Ronkonkoma teenager was found stabbed to death near her upstate university campus, police are once again seeking the public’s help in solving the case. Police have put Katherine Kolodziej’s picture on a billboard facing a busy two-lane highway, not far from where her half-clothed body was found in 1974. “If the person who did this is still alive, I want him to know we haven’t forgotten what he did,” Schoharie County Sheriff Anthony Desmond said last week. “It’s been 38 years, but we’re putting it out there again, continually hoping a lucky break will come … Continue reading Three Billboards, One for Each Decade

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2011 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. Continue reading 2011 in review

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Sherrie Anne Carville

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Sometimes, in the course of writing/posting to this blog I get the privilege of corresponding to the family and friends of  people I write about.  Many people have responded to my posts regarding the unsolved murder of college student Kathy Kolodzej. I lived in the same town, and was an acquaintance of Kathy’s, and her untimely death haunts me.  My good friend Ramona was a close friend of hers.  Sherrie Anne Carville’s sister Susan, and I started a correspondence regarding my posts about Kathy.  She was kind enough to share some memories about Sherrie, which I’ll post further on.  Sometimes the focus is about how someone died … Continue reading Sherrie Anne Carville

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Sherrie Ann Carville and Joanne Pecheone Murderer Linked to Kathy Kolodziej

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Case closed: Johnstown man likely murdered teen in 1972 Saturday, February 12, 2011 By Jim McGuire (Contact) Gazette Reporter JOHNSTOWN — Oneida County authorities have closed a 1972 murder case, concluding that Fulton County’s only known serial killer, the late John W. Hopkins of Johnstown, raped and then repeatedly stabbed 19-year-old Joanne Pecheone and left her body tied to a tree along a wooded path in East Utica. Oneida County District Attorney Scott D. McNamara issued a 13-page news release Friday detailing the evidence tying the case to Hopkins, who committed suicide in March 2000 while serving a sentence of … Continue reading Sherrie Ann Carville and Joanne Pecheone Murderer Linked to Kathy Kolodziej

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Katherine Kolodziej

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By ROCCO LaDUCA Observer-Dispatch http://www.uticaod.com/news/x1343503902/Pecheone-case-prompts-police-to-look-at-unsolved-74-murder Katherine Kolodziej, 17, of Long Island, was a SUNY Cobleskill freshman when she disappeared Nov. 2, 1974, and was found stabbed to death in a field about five miles away on Nov. 28, 1974, less than 90 minutes southeast of Utica. State police continue to investigate her unsolved murder, and have not yet ruled out serial killer John W. Hopkins as a possible suspect after he was recently linked to the 1972 murder of Joanne Pecheone in East Utica. Investigators may not have heard the last of local serial killer John William Hopkins. Hopkins may … Continue reading Katherine Kolodziej

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Possible lead in LI woman’s ’74 killing- Katherine Kolodziej

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From Newsday By SOPHIA CHANG AND GARY DYMSKI AP Photo     William John of the state troopers appealed to anyone who had known Kolodziej from Connetquot High School to contact the New York State Police. She was found stabbed to death 36 years ago, her body carefully arranged atop a stone wall in a field near upstate Cobleskill. Now, with the recent disclosure that a nearby decades-old killing had been solved, the unsolved murder of Ronkonkoma teenager Katherine Kolodziej is getting fresh attention. Last week, law enforcement officials said serial killer John William Hopkins was responsible for the 1972 … Continue reading Possible lead in LI woman’s ’74 killing- Katherine Kolodziej

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Cold Case But Not Forgotten-State Police BCI Investigator Tom Cioffi Hunts for the Killer of Katherine Kolodziej

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  Clues still being sought in death of college teen more than 36 years ago By BRYAN FITZGERALD Special To The Times Union Published: 12:00 a.m., Monday, January 3, 2011 COBLESKILL — The life of Katherine Kolodziej is divided into three cardboard boxes. Her last name is written on each in black marker. Two are at the State Police barracks in Rotterdam, the other at their station in Cobleskill. Inside are photos of the 17-year-old blonde, blue-eyed Long Island native smiling for her class picture, along with her public records and letters she received from her mother. So is Kolodziej’s autopsy report, thousands of … Continue reading Cold Case But Not Forgotten-State Police BCI Investigator Tom Cioffi Hunts for the Killer of Katherine Kolodziej

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Body of Lies CBS 48 Hours Mystery Transcript

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Courtesy of CBS News Jeami Chiapulis seemed to have lived quite the amazing life – highlighted by military combat, from Afghanistan to Iraq. He even had a photo of the elite Ranger unit he had served in. It all appealed to single mom Leisa Hurst and her father, Lynn. “I was impressed with him and everything else because of my military background,” Lynn Hurst tells “48 Hours Mystery” correspondent Maureen Maher. “He seemed like a very nice man,” Leisa’s mother, Debbie Welch, agrees. A man who sensed Leisa’s kids, Ashlyn and Tyler, were the way to her heart. “He knew … Continue reading Body of Lies CBS 48 Hours Mystery Transcript

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Jeami Chiapuli and Joyce Fransson Convicted of Murdering Leisa Hurst

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Leisa Hurst was reported missing to the Police Department after the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department discovered her orange/rust colored Honda Element abandoned in the area of Olive Street and Second Street in Hesperia. Her cell phone records show it was last used 10:54 p.m. on a Thursday night near the area of a cell tower at 11500 Mariposa Road in Hesperia. Hurst had not been seen or heard from since. Jeami Chiapulis, a 36-year-old Helendale, CA resident, had a romantic relationship with Hurst. But he had been living a double life, dating Joyce Fransson, a woman he met while … Continue reading Jeami Chiapuli and Joyce Fransson Convicted of Murdering Leisa Hurst

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Sprint Problems

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My 1st email to dan@sprint.com I went to my local Sprint store to complain, once again, about the 3rd phone line I was pressured into buying.  I received a phone call in March 2008 from a Sprint rep located, I assume because of the heavy accent, in India.  After quite a while on the phone he convinced me to get a third line.   631-41X-XXXX.  I already had  631-38X-XXXX and  38X-XXXX.  I basically took the extra line because this guy would not let me off the phone. I was told that I could cancel at any time if I was not … Continue reading Sprint Problems

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Troy Kenneth

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After my brother’s birthday lunch me, my sister-in-law, my mother and my partner took a ride to an Asian grocery store my sister-in-law wanted us to see.  Afterwards, we decided to take the long way home, as usual, since we like to explore CT’s back roads, and it was a beautiful day.  I was in CT from Long Island, where I live. I was driving, heading down Route 165 and had just crested a hill.  A young man was in the road, waving me around what looked like a motorcycle part.  I slowed.  Took in the scene.  A few parts … Continue reading Troy Kenneth

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Great Spangled Fritillary

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DSC_0289, originally uploaded by radioactv915. Great Smoky Mountains. While walking through the park a woman passed me with this butterfly on her shoulder. I admired it and she asked me if I wanted him/her. I took the butterfly and it stayed with me all during my walk. When I was leaving I placed the butterfly on a tree but the butterfly perched on my hand again. I had to “give” the butterfly to another person as it wanted nothing to do with being placed on any bushes, branches or fences…. Continue reading Great Spangled Fritillary

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Martin Tankleff Will Not Be Prosecuted

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From Newsday July 2008 http://www.newsday.com/ Parts of Exerpts BY ALFONSO A. CASTILLO The case of People v. Tankleff is over. The decision by the special prosecutor, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, ends the prosecution of Martin Tankleff for the 1988 murder of his parents. But it does not remove the cloud of suspicion. Cuomo’s staff said that there’s evidence of Tankleff’s guilt, but not enough to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And they said there’s no clear evidence to prosecute those identified by Tankleff’s defense team as the real killers. So Jerry Steuerman, a business associate of Tankleff’s father, … Continue reading Martin Tankleff Will Not Be Prosecuted

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Peter Buck R.E.M. Jones Beach 6-14-08

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IMG_1534, originally uploaded by radioactv915. Pouring rain, thunder, lightening. Drenched, soaking wet, cold-no matter, the show was great. BANG & BLAME If you could see yourself now, baby Its not my fault You used to be so in control Youre going to roll right over this one Just roll me over, let me go Youre laying blame Take this as no, no, no You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang, Blame, blame, blame You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang, Its not my thing so let it go. If you could see yourself now baby, The tables have turned The … Continue reading Peter Buck R.E.M. Jones Beach 6-14-08

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Hank Norris Eulogy For a Friend

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What is it that I remember when I think of Hank? I think everyone who knows him well would agree with me on this. It was his calm demeanor, his quiet intelligence and his sense of humor. He was the kind of person that would make you laugh at the absurdity of life’s situations. That is what I will truly miss about him. He could make me laugh when I was having a bad day. He always cheered me up when he knew I was in the middle of a bad day. Hank’s death was sudden. I remember when I … Continue reading Hank Norris Eulogy For a Friend

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Marty Tankleff On CBS 48 Hrs

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I saw a glimpse my friend and Marty Tankleff supporter, Bobby Olson, on 48 Hours last night. I emailed him this morning: The commentary below, is my and Bobby’s opinions and views. “Hey Bobby: I saw you on 48 Hrs. I’m glad you were there. Hope all is well.” He replied, “Thanks Tess! You have pretty good eyes. I was at most of the recent events but attempted to remain in the background. I am thankful for Marty for people like you who did a tremendous amount behind the scenes. As you know, Marty’s case is far from over. It’s … Continue reading Marty Tankleff On CBS 48 Hrs

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Marty Tankleff Conviction Vacated, New Trail Ordered

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God Bless everyone who worked so hard to get to this point. Decided on December 18, 2007 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT The People, etc., respondent,vMartin Tankleff, appellant. (Ind. Nos. 1290-88, 1535-88) APPEAL by the defendant, by permission, from an order of the County Court (Stephen L. Braslow, J.), dated March 17, 2006, and entered in Suffolk County, which denied, after a hearing, his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10(1)(g) and (h) to vacate two judgments of the same court (Tisch, J.), both rendered October 23, 1990, convicting him of murder in … Continue reading Marty Tankleff Conviction Vacated, New Trail Ordered

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Santeria or How My Friend Donna Lost It

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Santeria San Lazaro, originally uploaded by rapid eye movement. Esotericwombat writes in his blog that he talks to strangers. Me too. All the time. Something in my face attracts people to me. I don’t know why. This is not a post about talking to strangers, though. This is about a friend who became a stranger. For whatever reason, Esotericwombat’s post made me think of Donna, a girl I knew in the early 80’s. Or maybe what brought on the memory was listening to “Angie”, which was also posted there. I was living in Sayville, NY in a small apartment complex … Continue reading Santeria or How My Friend Donna Lost It

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Bob Seger at Mohegan Sun

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I always said that if Bob Seger ever played again I’d like to see him.  As I posted previously I’ve questioned some of my younger musical taste.  A few weeks ago I was searching through my album collection and wondered what the hell I was thinking as I scanned past a Flock of Seagulls album.  And as I said then, there must have been some kind of mandatory number of albums to pick when I joined, but never intended to pay for, the Colombia Record Club.  If I liked them way back then I’ll never admit to it.  A friend … Continue reading Bob Seger at Mohegan Sun

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Alex Chilton

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I just woke up so I have to get this dream down right away, I was in a deli, standing behind this guy when I realized it was Alex Chilton.  I said to him, “You’re Alex Chilton.”  He turned and smiled.  I said, “You wrote and sang The Letter, when you were in the Boxtops.  I have a later album of yours, when you were on your own.”  I tried to remember the name of the album but couldn’t.  He didn’t say a word and neither did the other guy he was with.  They just continued to smile.  Chilton was waiting … Continue reading Alex Chilton

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