|
NYC DA Cyrus Vance Jr. Obstruction of Justice
Allegations in
Dorothy Kilgallen Murder
Sent to U.S. Attorney’s Office for Investigation
|
|
|
Recent admissions by NYC DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s Office that it never interviewed the main suspect in Dorothy Kilgallen’s murder during a bogus 2017 investigation and proof that the DA made a false statement to the general public about her death knowing it to be false, a violation of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, amount to Obstruction of Justice. These allegations have been forwarded to Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, for his investigation. He has also been asked to conduct an independent probe of Dorothy’s death.
|
|
March 27, 2019
Mr. Geoffrey Berman
United States Attorney’s Office
1 St. Andrew’s Plaza
New York, New York 10007
Re: Did NYC DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. and ADA Eugene Hurley Obstruct Justice via a 2017 Bogus Investigation into Investigative Reporter Dorothy Kilgallen’s 1965 Death?
Dear Mr. Berman,
As an investigative reporter, author, and a member of the California Bar (inactive) living near the Stanford campus where you earned your law degree, I believe it is important to report possible obstruction of justice by government officials regarding criminal activity. This is important even if the crime itself took place more than 50 years ago since the victim of a homicide has rights regardless of the time lapse especially when she was denied justice despite their being mysterious circumstances surrounding her death.
The crime I speak of, as your office will hopefully conclude, involves the November 1965 death at the age of 52 of important historical figure Dorothy Kilgallen, best known for being the star panelist on the long-running CBS television program, What’s My Line?, but whose reputation as a legendary investigative reporter resulted in Ms. Kilgallen being a media icon like few before or since. In fact, it was her dogged 18-month investigation of the JFK assassination to discover the truth about what happened to her friend, the president, that ultimately put her in peril.
Details of Ms. Kilgallen’s life and times, her JFK assassination investigation (she was present at the Jack Ruby trial and the only reporter to interview him among other accomplishments) and her death, are memorized in two books of mine, the bestselling “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen,” [TRWKTM] published in late 2016, and “Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History,” [DOJ ] released in November 2018. The latter, my 25th publication, is enclosed for your interest.
More about Ms. Kilgallen, whose inspiring, yet tragic story, has touched the emotions of readers around the world, including videotaped interviews with those who are important witnesses to her demise may be learned at thedorothykilgallenstory.org. A presentation I gave about her case at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco this past December is available on YouTube. To date, nearly 40,000 people have watched this video and another presentation I gave about TRWKTM when it was released.
The potential obstruction of justice involves NY District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., former Assistant District Attorney Eugene Hurley, and the D.A.’s office’s investigation of Ms. Kilgallen’s death in 2017. Announced with much fanfare in the media (235,000 readers of the NY Post online article alone), the decision to investigate was apparently due to Vance Jr. and Hurley’s belief that the conclusion reached in 1965 that Ms. Kilgallen accidentally died of a drug overdose combined with alcohol warranted an investigation since none had been conducted following her death. In the article, Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman for Vance Jr., is quoted as saying, “a staffer has read the book [TRWKTM], and reviewed a letter from author Mark Shaw citing new leads, medical evidence and witnesses overlooked when Kilgallen, 52, died suddenly on Nov. 8, 1965, at the peak of her career,” confirming the DA office’s strong suspicion there was foul play involved in her death.
With this proclamation and additional information in mind, at the heart of the possible misconduct arguably amounting to government corruption is a statement the DA’s office issued to the public through the media when it made an abrupt decision to suddenly terminate the Kilgallen death probe in August 2017. It reads:
Following a thorough, eight-month-long investigation
into the death of Dorothy Kilgallen, the [NY County]
District Attorney’s Office has found no evidence from
which it could be concluded that Ms. Kilgallen’s death
was caused by another person. We would like to thank
those who advocated on behalf of Ms. Kilgallen,
because the information provided by her supporters is one
of the reasons why an investigation commenced 51 years
after her death. This office remains dedicated to the
investigation of cold cases and, if new evidence comes
to light, we will review it appropriately. We will decline
further comment on this matter.
Doing so raises the question of whether Vance Jr. and ADA Hurley authorized and circulated a false statement they knew to be false. Important to note are the words “a thorough, eight-month long investigation,” and “has found no evidence from which it could be concluded that Ms. Kilgallen’s death was caused by another person.” Since there are considerable facts in opposition to the investigation being even close to “thorough” and a mountain of evidence to the contrary regarding her death being accidental, by this letter I am respectfully requesting that your office review conduct by Vance, Jr.’s office from the moment the D.A. accepted the responsibility to investigate the death in January 2017.
As your reputation as a man of the truth who believes injustice in any form cannot be tolerated is well known and respected, I also request that your office launch an independent investigation of Ms. Kilgallen’s death perhaps through the convening of a grand jury so that she finally receives the justice she deserves denied to her in 1965 and 2017. This will permit witnesses never interviewed by DA Vance’s office to appear and will expose documents hidden by the office essential to understanding what happened to her, among them, a critical 1965 "DD 5 Supplementary Complaint Report," also known as a "Request of Cause of Death," created by either the New York Medical Examiner's Office or the NYPD, which has been proven to exist.
Details in both books and in my March 14, 2018, and November 16, 2018 letters to Mr. Vance, Jr., enclosed for your interest, provide the overall basis for my request. Interaction with the DA’s office after it accepted the Kilgallen case for review resulted in my sharing vital evidence about her death with Detective Richard Ramos, assigned as a chief investigator for Ms. Kilgallen’s case. That a former homicide detective was selected to probe her death is significant since other investigators were available who had no such experience leading to the conclusion that Ramos was assigned because the DA’s office believed this was a criminal case.
For several months, Ramos and I corresponded by email (copies in DOJ) leading to my meeting with him on June 2, 2017, in his New York City office. At that time, I presented Ramos with a seven-page “Evidence Report” (enclosed) which included more than 25 witnesses along with contact information and the listing of 33 “relevant factors” as to why Ms. Kilgallen did not die accidentally. This conclusion was specifically due to fresh forensic evidence never exposed before along with witness statements and documents relating to her death but hidden from the public.
During our meeting, Ramos, who said he had read TRWKTM and “really enjoyed it” while watching “more than 50 interview videos about Kilgallen’s life and times and her death,” talked about how excited he was to be investigating her death. He also said he had already sent out subpoenas to retrieve important documents related to the death, and most importantly, repeatedly called her the “victim” of a crime. Ramos also said he would share the evidence provided with the ADA assigned to the case, who turned out to be Eugene Hurley.
All seemed to square with Ramos complimenting me on my cooperation (“I appreciate all of your hard work”) as I continued for several months to share with him via email new evidence compiled for DOJ. This included statements by Ms. Kilgallen’s butler’s daughter Brenda DeJourdan that Ms. Kilgallen had been killed, and admissions by Ms. Kilgallen’s daughter Jill to the effect, “My mother was murdered” (confirmed by two witnesses). Most importantly, Ramos was made aware of the admissions by journalist Ron Pataky, Kilgallen’s confidant and romantic interest (still alive and living in Ohio), whose less than truthful statements about his relationship with Ms. Kilgallen indicated complicity in her death. He also made incriminating remarks to family members including, “I was the last person to see Dorothy alive. I was at her apartment the night she died; the last one to leave the building,”
Based on these disclosures, Ramos not only questioned Pataky’s involvement in Ms. Kilgallen’s demise but agreed with me that if Pataky were confronted with the plethora of evidence pointing to his guilt including the false and conflicting statements and incriminating admissions, he might very well confess. Ramos also wondered if “Pataky may have sold Ms. Kilgallen’s JFK assassination evidence to the wrong people,” and why “he did not attend his best friend’s funeral,” an indication that little doubt existed Ramos suspected Pataky was somehow involved in her death, that indeed it was a homicide. (It is this author’s opinion that Ramos did not agree with the DA office’s decision to stop the 2017 investigation. Interviewing Detective Ramos, who left the office in 2018 and has been evasive since is a real key to probing Vance Jr. and Hurley’s conduct, and whether the August 2017 statement terminating the investigation into Ms. Kilgallen’s death was false and known to be false yet disseminated to the public.)
Ramos was also made aware of Pataky’s violent background including several arrests involving alcohol abuse, his firing a gun at a former NFL player during a dispute, and that he admitted attending an “Assassin’s School” in Central America after flunking out of Stanford where he was arrested for drunkenness. All of this compelling evidence connected to, as Ramos was well aware, Pataky’s publication of two incriminating poems in the 1990s about Ms. Kilgallen included in both of my books. The first is entitled, “Never Trust a Stiff at a Typewriter,” an obvious reference to Ms. Kilgallen being silenced. It reads:
There’s a way to quench a gossip’s stench,
That never fails,
One cannot write if zippered tight,
Somebody who’s dead can tell no tales.
The second reads:
Since, as a fresh investigation will confirm, the forensic evidence included in Ms. Kilgallen’s autopsy erroneously noted her being poisoned by only one barbiturate, Seconal, as reported to the media, but actually, the drug Tuinal was also mentioned but hidden from public view. A subsequent blood analysis by ME toxicologists never reported before added Nembutal to the deadly mix with the evidence squarely pointing to her being poisoned by the insertion of three barbiturates, not one, into her cocktail during the last night of her life by a “bartender” who may have very well been Pataky who admitted he was the last person to see her alive. Of note are the words, “I’m spilling my guts,” a possible reference to his having leaked Ms. Kilgallen’s JFK assassination investigation evidence to the “wrong people” as Ramos surmised, and her accusing him of doing so which led to Pataky’s stating, “She is driving me nuts.”
The forensic evidence, proven through expert witnesses, rules out either an accidental death or suicide and was contrary, as Ramos was aware, to the conclusion reached by the NYC Medical Examiner despite no investigation conducted by him or the NYPD. Regarding the latter, no probe occurred even though little doubt existed that the death scene had been staged with Ms. Kilgallen discovered in her townhouse bedroom that she never slept in and wearing bedclothes she never wore to bed with her earrings, hairpiece, false eyelashes, and makeup still in place. Other irregularities also existed including her body having been moved from where it was originally located according to the eyewitness account of Ms. Kilgallen’s hairdresser Marc Sinclaire as noted in his videotaped interview at thedorothykilgallenstory.org.
More importantly, as Ramos was advised, the second poem indicates Pataky obviously has knowledge of how Ms. Kilgallen was poisoned (“make one of ‘em poison,” referencing one of the drinks) that only the killer or one knowing how she was killed, could know, one of the homicide detectives’ best friend for solving crimes. This rings true since none of this inside information about the three barbiturates was ever reported until TRWKTM was released in late 2016, with the book exposing for the first time Kilgallen’s autopsy report gleaned from the National Archives.
When interviewed by me on two occasions (audio recordings are available), Pataky denied writing the poems about Ms. Kilgallen despite facts to the contrary. However, Ramos was aware that Belva Elliot, Pataky’s first cousin, had stated, “Ron admitted the poems he wrote, about the poisoning, about one called ‘one who cannot write is zippered tight,’ were about Dorothy.”
With the strong evidence I had provided Ramos clearly pointing to Ms. Kilgallen being killed and Pataky the main suspect, confidence arose that an August 2017 a phone call from Ramos and ADA Hurley to me set up by Ramos “to update the investigation” would finally provide the justice she deserved. I expected that, at the very least, Pataky had been interviewed along with many of the witnesses provided especially Ms. Elliot. In addition, I was certain that the subpoenas issued by Ramos had resulted in securing several documents of interest including the DD-5 Death Report that I was sure existed after interviewing a retired sheriff’s detective (available for interview) who knew the main NYPD detective handling Ms. Kilgallen’s case.
Instead, I was stunned when Hurley said that they were terminating their “thorough” investigation since they had discovered no harm to Kilgallen when she died. I stumbled in confusion as to how this could be possible and then began asking very pointed questions of Hurley. Upset, he finally said, “I am not going to argue with you, Mr. Shaw,” and besides, we don’t know who did it” before realizing his mistake and hanging up. These words made little sense since they were contradictory to no harm having come to Ms. Kilgallen. During the conversation, Ramos never spoke causing me to believe he did not agree with the decision.
Immediately suspicious that the investigation was anything but “thorough,” I contacted five important witnesses and each confirmed through email lack of the DA’s office contacting them. These witnesses included Kilgallen’s daughter Jill’s friend Robert Schulenberg who told me Jill had said, “My mother was murdered,” a statement confirmed by Brenda DeJourdan, who had not been interviewed either despite her insight into Ms. Kilgallen’s private life, her JFK assassination and her death since DeJourdan and her parents in lived in the townhouse.
In addition, Ramos knew, along with Hurley, that DeJourdan had informed me of a startling revelation that needed following up, that FBI agents had swarmed Ms. Kilgallen’s townhouse shortly after she died. DeJourdan said the agents “took her papers and documents, clothing, everything” away” with these documents, which went missing, chronicling Ms. Kilgallen’s JFK assassination investigation. Regardless, Ramos never interviewed DeJourdan.
Dismayed at the DA office’s lack of a “thorough” investigation, I immediately wrote DA Vance Jr., a letter requesting that his office reverse its decision to terminate the probe into Kilgallen’s death. There was no response.
As noted, a copy of DOJ is enclosed for your interest. It provides further details of the DA’s bogus investigation beginning in Chapter 38 on page 423. New, however, to the accusations of improper conduct on the part of Vance, Jr., and Hurley are two recent admissions by the DA’s office in response to the enclosed FOIL request I filed in February 2019. Of special interest is the statement that “the investigation into the death of Dorothy Kilgallen is a sealed criminal proceeding.” This triggers the question as to why the case was designated a “criminal proceeding” in 2019 when the DA’s office announced there was no crime both in the 2017 media statement and when it denied a previous FOIL request later that year.
This said, two specific February 2019 FOIL requests are quite essential to probe. They are:
The response from ADA Susan Roque reads as follows regarding #’s 36 and #37
Logically, it may be concluded that based on this statement (“those documents are not in DANY’s possession”), there was no contact or investigation of any kind, not even an interview, of Pataky, the main suspect in Kilgallen’s death. Failure to interview the more than twenty witnesses who shed light on her death, especially those with direct knowledge including Pataky’s family members who said he admitted to writing the incriminating poems and to being the last person to see Kilgallen alive, appears to go completely against the grain of a district attorney’s duty to search for the truth during an investigation. But not probing Pataky, a pathological liar with psychopathic tendencies as proven in DOJ, appears to fly in the face of any sense of a “thorough” investigation by the DA’s office adding to the weight of Vance Jr. and Hurley making the false statement to the media in August 2017.
Regarding Pataky, who had the motive (Kilgallen exposing his leaking of her JFK assassination investigation evidence would have ruined his career), means (he was a trusted ally and admits being in her Manhattan townhouse on previous occasions), opportunity (met her on the last night of her life at the Regency Hotel near her residence), and benefit from the crime (may have received money for leaking her JFK evidence as Ramos suspected), it is critical that your investigation involve interviewing certain witnesses as soon as possible based on their advanced age but for certain Pataky. His contact information is Ron Pataky - 4800 Knightbridge, #230. Columbus, Ohio 43204, 614.933.0654 or 614.457.6440. Email address is Rons.place@yahoo.com. Contact information for other witnesses is supplied in the aforementioned Evidence Report.
Based on these disclosures, two disturbing points of interest about the DA’s statement in 2017 terminating the Kilgallen death investigation seem undisputed – by no stretch of the imagination was there a “thorough” investigation of any kind since witnesses provided by this author were never contacted (email exchanges in DOJ). Also, the supposition that there was “no evidence from which it could be concluded that Ms. Kilgallen’s death was caused by another person” appears false on its face since the facts point to the DA’s office not even making a solid effort to discover such evidence, which surely exists.
Certainly, a fresh investigation will determine whether Vance, Jr. and ADA Hurley issued the false statement to the media knowing it to be false amounting to obstruction of justice but if so, these actions deprived Ms. Kilgallen of the justice she deserved since the DA’s office undertook the responsibility to conduct a thorough investigation of her death as it would do with any victim of what was obviously, based on strong and apparent evidence, a homicide. The issuing of such a false statement is in violation of Rule 8.4 of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct. In part, it states that misconduct occurs if a lawyer “engages in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” or “engages in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice.”
These violations appear to fit the conduct of Vance Jr., Hurley and the DA’s office’s handling of the Kilgallen investigation not only because what they did was at the very least misrepresentation, but at the worst dishonest and deceitful regarding the facts about her death. By doing so, the public was led to believe that the DA’s office had done its job in a professional manner and therefore determined that Ms. Kilgallen died accidentally of an overdose of deadly barbiturates resulting in further defaming of her good name. With your office looking into the matter, the question as to whether this conduct is “prejudicial to the administration of justice” for the victim of a crime may be resolved. This is true whether the victim is a famous woman like Dorothy Kilgallen or Dorothy Doe.
Deciding whether the DA office’s conduct is rendered prejudicial must also involve considering the end result here – that Pataky, the man most likely to have been complicit in her death (a viable scenario as to how he may have orchestrated it is noted in DOJ), remains free. Interviewing Ramos as to his reasons for suspecting Pataky of selling Ms. Kilgallen’s JFK assassination evidence and other matters causing Ramos to view Pataky as a suspect may open the door to further proof Ramos discovered implicating Pataky.
If it is determined by your office that the statement by the DA’s office that “it found no evidence from which it could be concluded that Ms. Kilgallen’s death was caused by another person,” was known to be false, and yet made available to the media and thus to the public at large is arbitrary and capricious, then Vance Jr., and Hurley’s conduct is completely contrary to the duty of a prosecuting attorney “to do the right thing.” This is one of the foundations of the Rules of Fairness and Ethical Conduct as provided in the Rules of Professional Conduct codified at Title 22, Part 1200 of the New York Code of Rules and Regulations. In the article, “The Right Thing: Ethical Guidelines for Prosecutors,” “doing the right thing” is defined as:
“[Prosecutors] must seek the truth, tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. It means [prosecutors] have a duty to know the ethical rules that govern our conduct and to remain alert to the myriad of and often subtle ethical challenges that arise in our work. It means that district attorneys and their senior staff must set the tone, emphasize the primacy of ethical conduct, instruct junior prosecutors in these principles, and monitor their compliance.”
A decision by your office that Vance Jr. and his colleagues did not “seek the truth” by acting in not only an unethical manner but perhaps an illegal one as well by suppressing evidence, hiding evidence the public should view, then you have the opportunity to right the wrong. This can happen by investigating Vance Jr. and his office regarding its incomplete investigation of Kilgallen’s death and to properly and professionally probe that death using all of your investigatory powers including the potential to convene a grand jury.
So as to gain an independent evaluation of the Kilgallen case in tandem with her investigation of the JFK assassination, former federal prosecutor and the United States Congressman Robert Livingston was enlisted to provide an opinion. He concluded:
After reading “Denial of Justice,” your follow-up to “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much,” I find that you’ve made a convincing case that the Warren Report covering the assassination of President Kennedy is woefully incomplete and possibly misleading. Clearly, evidence exists to imply that Oswald and even more likely, his killer Jack Ruby, were acting in concert with others. Moreover, you’ve shown that Dorothy Kilgallen was investigating and had likely uncovered much of that evidence when she was discovered to have suffered an untimely death at her home in 1965. Finally, because of your most thorough examination of the confusing facts surrounding her death, one is left with convincing evidence that she died neither from natural causes nor suicide. In short, she was murdered and the circumstances of her death appear to have been covered up. Why and by who is still open to speculation, but you have provided an exhaustive list of possibilities and potential assailants.
As a former prosecutor, I cannot say that you have solved the case “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But you surely have provided sufficient “reasonable cause” to convene a grand jury for a thorough investigation. That said, the case is 50+ years old and limited resources available to government investigative authorities might provide them with reason to “put it on the back shelf” but for the connection to the most horrendous crime of the past century, to wit: the killing of President Kennedy.
There are still a number of potential witnesses alive today. Because of your work, they could be subpoenaed to testify and such proceedings should not take too much time to definitely answer some of the questions yet unanswered.
Mr. Berman, at a time when there is so much turmoil in the world, politically and otherwise, I realize your office has a fistful of priorities regarding upholding the laws across the state of New York. This said, Dorothy Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who rose from being a college dropout to being, among other things, the most credible reporter to have investigated the JFK assassination, cannot defend herself. As people around the world who have championed her cause tell me on a daily basis (more than 1000 emails to date), she was a true patriot, a woman of integrity who risked her life to tell the truth about what happened to the 35th president of the United States and in the end, as the evidence clearly indicates, paid the price for attempting to print that truth.
Without question, Ms. Kilgallen, through her breakthrough research as presented for the first time in both of my books, has provided a new lens with which to view through her eyes JFK’s tragic death. Following up on my end based on her probe has permitted me to expose the most important assassination documents in history, the Jack Ruby trial transcripts for the first time permitting the public to realize what she was going to expose in a “tell-all” book she was completing for Random House. It would have proven who killed JFK and who covered up arguably the biggest lie in American history, that Lee Harvey Oswald alone assassinated the president.
How do we know? Because Ms. Kilgallen, from her front row seat at the Ruby trial listened to the eyewitness testimony pointing to a definite plot to kill JFK to the extent that Ruby actually watched the assassination as it took place from a Dallas Morning News office window facing Dealey Plaza, admitted that he “He would be there” when Oswald was transferred and that he “made like a reporter to get into the DPD basement” where he shot Oswald, etc. Thousands of people have viewed the shocking testimony on the original trial transcript pages embedded in DOJ and on my website, markshawbooks.com.
As such, Kilgallen, whose exhaustive JFK assassination investigation has cleared up many distortions of history, deserves better than an inadequate investigation into her death. My hope is that you will, at long last, provide her with a “thorough” investigation by doing the “right thing” in accordance with the powers of your office. The potential for this to happen, I believe, is strong based on a statement by Mary Jo White, the chair of the Securities Exchange Commission under President Obama, who was the U. S. attorney in the early 1990s when you were an assistant. When asked about your integrity, she wrote, “Doing the right thing, and acting on the merits completely, that may sound naïve, but it is the steel spine of that place [your office]. Geoff has that.”
The “steel spine” Ms. White notes about your moral and ethical makeup gives me hope to believe justice will prevail here since Ms. Kilgallen, who was a bastion of truth once called the “the most powerful female voice in America” by the New York Post, is a symbol of those who cannot scream for justice themselves but must look to those in power to protect their rights. To that end, a full investigation of her death, as well as an investigation of Vance Jr. and Hurley’s conduct, should be provided to make certain her voice is heard and that Ron Pataky is brought to justice, if the evidence warrants that conclusion once his involvement in Kilgallen’s death has been thoroughly probed.
Doing so will answer large and looming questions that need answers based on transparency: What is the real reason the DA’s office suddenly pull the plug on the investigation when it was being conducted in the spirit of full cooperation between Ramos and me? What prompted that decision; what may be hidden from public view and most puzzling, why did Vance, Jr. and Hurley, seasoned prosecutors for sure, decide to issue the media statement based on falsehoods instead of simply closing the investigation in a quiet, orderly and professional manner? That would have made sense but instead, they projected the image through a media statement to the world that due to a “thorough” probe on their part, Ms. Kilgallen was not the victim of a crime. Dishonest? Deceitful? Misrepresentation? Your office must decide since, in all likelihood, the chances for justice for Ms. Kilgallen stop at your doorstep.
Shortly before she died, Ms. Kilgallen told her hairdresser and confidant Charles Simpson, “If the wrong people knew what I know about the JFK assassination, it would cost me my life.” She said to the second hairdresser and friend Marc Sinclaire, “I am afraid for my life and my family and I have bought a gun.” (both interviews at thedorothykilgallenstory.org.). Her concern was understandable since Ms. Kilgallen had challenged the power of the government and the ludicrous J. Edgar Hoover “Oswald Alone” theory in her columns and articles, the only reporter to do so.
Quotes like these exemplify what Ms. Kilgallen’s courage in the face of danger was all about. Like you, she sought justice and another remark of hers is as true today as it was 50+ years ago. She said: “Justice is a big rug. When you pull it out from under one man, a lot of others fall, too.” Pull out the rug from under the office of Cyrus Vance, Jr. with regard to the investigation into her death, Mr. Berman, and who knows what you may find.
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you and promise to cooperate in any way possible including meeting in NYC with your staff. I am sure you will agree that victims of a crime have rights whether they died five days ago, five years ago, or fifty-plus years ago. Now you can give her those rights, be her paladin, be the one to stand up for Kilgallen when so many have failed to do so.
Best wishes,
Mark Shaw
P. S. You, and your staff may wonder what are my motives here, chasing justice as I have for a dead woman I never knew, going on six years? I have been accused of just trying to sell books, untrue, and seeking personal glory for my actions on behalf of Ms. Kilgallen. I have gotten threats that I should leave the case alone; my email and Facebook pages have been hacked and yet I continue on. Why? Because my defending people who cannot defend themselves goes back to my early days as a public defender when I represented the downtrodden like they were my brothers and sisters. In this case, I believe Dorothy picked me to be her voice, and as such, I am doing everything I can to see that justice is served. As it should be.
Enclosures:
Copy of “Denial of Justice.”
March 14, 2018 letter to Cyrus Vance, Jr.
November 16, 2018 letter to Cyrus Vance, Jr.
February 8, 2019 response letter from ADA Susan Roque re FOIL request
Evidence Document proving Kilgallen Victim of Homicide
Evidence Document proving Ron Pataky complicit in Kilgallen’s death
2017 “Evidence Report” Provided to DA Chief Investigator Det. Richard Ramos
|
|
|
|
|
|
