On November 19th, with "John Doe Duffel Bag" being sought by police detectives, but "not as a suspect," other law enforcement sources were telling the media that "The shooter appears to be well-trained... [p]rofessionals sometimes use .22s, which make less noise and, because it has less firepower, it does a lot of internal damage” --- at about the same time a police sketch of a thin-faced black man with sunglasses, the same sketch as a suspect being sought since August, was republished in the media
After over a day in police custody, and lots of interrogation, somebody who was "not a suspect," but who had some connection to the victims and the murder scenes either confessed or made some "incriminating statements" that led the police to their new pet in the case, the now-infamous "Duffel Bag." That "Duffel Bag" was identified sometime after the third serial killing on November 16th and before November 19th when "John Doe Duffel Bag" was announced with great fanfare and videotape. Low and behold one day later almost all of the physical evidence for the solution of three murder cases turns up in the previously trumpeted "Duffel Bag," The timelines of the statements by and about the suspect Sal Perrone, and about the "evidence" in the case -- ballisitcs, "Duffel Bag" at girl-freind's apartment, search warrants "sawed-off" Ruger 10/22 rifle, just don't jibe.
These are problems that should come back to haunt Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and Bay Ridge State Senator Martin Golden because each of them are responsible for a lot of the loose ends in the case. Kelly, Hynes and Golden are all now tied into "getting" Sal Perrone to be their guy for these crimes -- or according to one of Hynes' ADA's, to at least one of the crimes. The problem is that if Sal Perrone is the guy for all THIS --- why wasn't he caught shortly after the first killing on July 6th -- the one of the crimes that happened to be the first [or was it?].
[More about State Senator Golden, some of those reasons that it took three killings to track down "John Doe Duffel Bag" and the 2012 elections in a later post.]
Yesterday, one of ABC's top crime reporters Jim Dolan did a human interest piece about the aftermath of the killing of the first of the alleged victims of "John Doe Duffle Bag." ( A post at ABC New York's web page entitled "Son of murder victim struggles to keep store open" links to the Dolan video.) The tenor of Dolan's report is that "John Doe Duffel Bag" was the killer of the proprietor of Valentino Fashion in Bay Ridge, Mohammed Gabeli. However, Dolan's interview with the victim's son, Moe Gabelli, shows that he is apparently a little incredulous that this so-called "John Doe Duffle Bag," identified by Dolan as "accused serial killer Salvatore Perrone" could have done the heinous deed that had such tragic outcomes on Gabeli's father and the family business.
"Why did he do it? Why did he do such a thing like that?" a distraught Moe Gebeli asked Dolan. Moe's father, Mohammad Gebeli had owned Valentino Fashions in Bay Ridge and had bought merchandise for his store from Perrone, who was a salesman. The victim's son said he has known the man accused of killing his father for a long time, about fifteen years. According to the son of the victim, "My father had known him longer than that. We treated him so nice every time he comes here. I mean we treated that guy so nice, and my father treated him so nice too." Then Moe Gabeli went even further, "Police say there was no apparent disagreement between the two and Perrone didn't gain any money or business from the murder. The two were friends." In answer to Jim Dolan's question, "If I'd have asked you six months ago what you thought of that guy, what would you say?" -- the victims's son answered, "I would have said he's a nice, he comes here, we joke with him, we laugh with him, we take whatever he got and buy it off him."
Shop owner Mohamed Gebeli was killed inside Valentino Fashion in Bay Ridge on July 6; Isaac Kadare, 59, was killed on August 2nd at Amazing 99-cent Deals in Bensonhurst; and Friday, November 16th, Rahamatollah Vahidipourlast was killed at She-She Boutique in Flatbush. After the August 2nd killing, police and local business groups had a description and a composite sketch of a smallish young black man wearing sunglasses at night -- that sketch and description was still being circulated right up to the time that Sal Perrone appeared on the scene. Law enforcement also were describing the shootings as "professional" up to the time that "Duffel Bag" Sal Perrone appeared on the scene. In fact, everything since the time that "Duffel Bag" toting Sal Perrone appeared on the scene sounds like a happy hairshirt fairy tale by law enforcement.
The Three Irish Guys, Kelly, Hynes and Golden have to come up with a better tenor -- this act won't get the critic's nod -- and if it falls apart, the public will hate all of it as well.
2 comments:
Don't Marty Golden have any more contact with this 'Son of Sal, John Doe Dufflebag Salvatore Perone' character than any the papers said yet. The Home Reportr said that Perone was a regular sales man that sells his stuff all over Fifth Avnue in Bayridge for years. Don't Golden have all the 5th Avnue store marchents in his asossiation. The Home Reporter says that Sal Perone even had his own cloths store on Fifth Av right by the first murder. Also he was a Knights of Colmbus guy in the place on 13 AVnue and 86 STreett where Golden always went to talk. They got to know each other from somewhere.
Dennis Hamil said this duffelbag guy is some kind of lone wolf wacko, some cops say he looks like some kind of professional hit man. All of it looks like their trying to set this guy up.
Irregardles of any of that half the people who know him love the guy and the other half hate him. He has a girlfriend and goes out dancing a lot. So he's nothing like some knid of "lone wolf wacko" like Dennis Hamil says.
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