NEW YORK STATE POLICE,  PAMELA, NEW YORK

INTERROGATION

During the interrogation, all I could think about was the pain that my girlfriend went through nine years ago. I asked several times where my girlfriend was. They kept telling me that they didn't know where she was.  Finally I asked how they could not know with the way they communicate with each other. There was no answer from either investigator. 

While this was going on, my girlfriend was taken, without my knowledge, to Oneida, NY, for a polygraph test (she was actually already gone before I got to the police barracks in Pamelia--so they had no intention of releasing her at that time, but told me I could pick her up, just to get me there). I guess the investigators didn't like her story of what happened; even though, it was consistent with what she told nine years before. She was finally taken home at around 11:30 p.m.  She was kept from home for 13 hours.

During my interrogation, I kept telling the investigators, Lazarus and Dence, that I was concerned about the whereabouts of my girlfriend, the children, and the care of my 4 year old son. They gave me no answers.

I was told that a statement was needed. That I could be charged with manslaughter or criminally neglect homicide, but the statute of limitations had run out on both of them.

So, I gave them the statement of the child falling off the steps. They told me that it was wrong and that something happened on the lawn mower ( I had been mowing the yard that day) and that was the statement they wanted. They kept insisting that the baby was shaken violently and thrown from the lawn mower. This was the first time that I heard of shaking a baby and the comparison of a car accident of more than 40 miles an hour or falling off a 2-story building.

I was under the impression that I couldn't leave until they were satisfied with a statement. I had just picked up my teenage son from Massachusetts in Fultonville, NY, to spend the rest of the holiday with. I was worried about my girlfriend and what she was going through. And I was worried about the children being home alone with the 4-year-old.

After the investigators kept insisting that I couldn't be charged with anything, I didn't really care what they thought of me, as long as I could go home and get my girlfriend home. So I signed their statement, even if it was wrong.

I sat there for about an hour with BCI investigator Patrick Hathaway. I asked him why I was still there. He told me that the  DA needs to look at the statement. The next thing I know I'm being finger printed, handcuffed and taken across the parking lot to be arraigned in Pamelia town court.

I was being charged with depraved murder (murder 2). After which I was taken, by Patrick Hathaway and another State Trooper, to Jefferson County Jail. On the way there, I asked Hathaway how they could arrest me when I gave them the statement that they (Lazarus and Dence) wanted me to give. 

I ended up spending twelve days in jail because of someone's theory and opinion.

During the interrogation, my family members were desperately trying to call the State Police to get through to me. But, the police kept putting them off and finding excuses for them not to talk to me.  They even had obtained an attorney, but couldn't get through to me to let me know. When police did finally let me talk to them, it was too late.  I told my sister to bring my insulin to the courthouse in Pamelia.

Later, my sister, Donna, called the State Police to ask where my girlfriend was and they still wouldn't tell where she was. So she told them that she would like to file a missing persons report. Then they finally admitted that they had her and said she would be home soon.

It amazes me how much they lied.

  WHILE IN JAIL