Cops Keep Digging for Evidence
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' ‘ "'5isr^' j ^ f®anrliFBtrr IferalJi ^ Manchester — A City ol Village Charm 30 Cents Thursday, Nov. 26, 1987 Cops keep digging for V evidence 0 Bv Andrew Yurkovsky from an arionymous informant on Manchester Herald May 28 that a body had been buried there. H^yor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. Police plan to continue to work said Wednesday morning that through the holiday digging on Pine police are searching for the re Hill Street for the body of a person, mains of what may be a child. probably a child, believed to have DiRosa said his information been murdered about 35 years ago, came from the Manchester Police Manchester Police Capt. Joseph H. Department, but Brooks would not Brooks said Wednesday. confirm or deny DiRosa’s “ We’ll stop when we’re done with statement. the area we’ve targeted,” Brooks Police have named no suspects in said. the alleged murder. Pollceuncoveredbone fragments At the request of Manohester St 24 Pine Hill St. on Tuesday, but police. Hartford Superior Court Judge J. Morgan Kline sealed the tests by the state medical examin Ftaginild PInUVMtnchwter Harald er’s office determined the frag police affidavit for the warrant in ments were not human. Dr. Ira order to protect the informant. continue to search for the remains of a possible murder Kanfer said Wednesday. A slaugh Kline said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert D. Lannan, left. Town Manager terhouse was once located where The circumstances of the alleged Robert B. Weiss and police Capt. Joseph H. Brooks victim who may have been buried in the yard of the home the home at 24 Pine St. now stands. crime are contained in the sealed confer at 24 Pine Hill St. Wednesday afternoon. Police about 35 years ago. Meanwhile, a source has told the affidavit. Manchester Herald that the police DiRosa said that police had not were tipped off about the alleged ruled out the possibility that more murder by an older woman, who than one body may be located in the said she saw someone carrying a area of the Pine Hill Street home. Quiet street under media giare body 35 or 40 years ago. Digging at 24 Pine Hill St. began ’Tuesday afternoon, when police The source did not give any busied themselves by Interviewing around for a while,” said the other executed the search warrant. A Bv Andrew Davis along the right side of the house was information about the sex of the obstructed by the steep angle of the neighbors and themselves. One neighbor. He said that he was an statement issued ’Tuesday by Po Manchester Herald victim, or about the person who was after the other, reporters knocked exception because the army of lice Chief Robert D. Lannan said land. carrying the body. The source said Parking on the block also was on the same doors of residents over reporters did hot bother him. that police were going to execute a It could be described as a media the informant may have come and over again. warrant for “ an alleged homicide circus. difficult. The steep, narrow street Police and town officials were forward after so many years New Haven’s WTNH-TV, Chan that occurred approximately 35 Reporters, photographers and was lined with cars and drivers besieged by reporters early in the because the incident was bothering nel 8, sent a reporter and a years ago.” Police, however, re television cameramen lined Pine trying to maneuver their vehicles. day. Jta jp r Peter DiRosa arrived her. The views were-so bad that a cameraman phis a remote vehicle .. The source said the informant’s leased no additional information Hill Street looking- f<P‘elues In a at 11:85 ia.m. and, within the span of 35-year-old alleged homicide that cameraman from WFSB-TV, Chan for live broadcasts. WVIT-’TV, a few minutes, as he provided some story could be supported by the fact until Wednesday. Channel 30. also sent a reporter and Brooks said the digging could reportedly Involved a child. nel 3. walked onto the property of of the first official details of the that a child was reported missingat a cameraman. continue for several days. Two There are only 11 houses on the one house on the street for a better investigation, he was interviewed the time. The intrusion obviously bothered detectives at the scene Wednesday dead-end street and the hour-after- view Wednesday, despite the pro twice by newspaper reporters and Brooks would not comment on some of the neighbors, who moved night said that they would stop hour of digging by police and the tests of an obviously perturbed participated in a live broadcast for who informed police about the in and out of view as quickly as digging for the day at midnight. watching and waiting by reporters German shepherd. A upset woman WTNH and a remote broadcast for alleged homicide, but he did say possible. Only two neighbors Town Manager Robert B. Weiss from across the state changed the who came to the back door of the WVIT. that police had determined that house was calmed by a Channel 3 watched the proceedings for an was at Pine Hill Street for about 10 quiet nature of the neighborhood. there were no missing persons at reporter and the quick exit of the extended period. Town Manager Robert B. Weiss that time in Manchester. minutes Wednesday, speaking with Police boundaries had confined was spared the news blitz, as most reporters to two views of the cameraman. “ Why don’t you guys give up?” Manchester police have said that police officials. He would not shouted one of the two neighbors. reporters had left the block by 1 comment on the investigation when digging at 24 Pine Hill St. A street Since the views to the digging left they sought a search warrant for much to be desired, reporters “ I guess you guys are going to be p.m., an hour before his arrival. the property after receiving a tip interviewed later. view revealed nothing, while a view Military advisers sent to aid with hostage crisis endanger the hostages.” the Pen federal authorities. “ They have me here outside and Negotiations were fruitless Wed United States and Cuba had agreed ATLANTA (AP) - The Pentagon tagon said. “ My patience is endless,” Mi they’re going to kill us if something nesday morning, but the fractious on deporting 2,545 Cubans, mostly dispatched military advisers to the A Pentagon official, speaking on chael Quinlan, director of the stupid is done. The Cubans are Cuban representatives apparently criminals and mentally ill people Atlanta penitentiary as rebellious condition of anonymity, said: Bureau of Prisons, said in Washing ready to put an end to all of us,” he were in no rush to conclude the who entered the United States in the Cuban inmates seized more hos “ We’re there to lend some advice ton. “ I think that the situation will said. episode. Mariel boatlift in 1980. tages Wednesday and one of the 94 The Pentagon announced Wed and possibly some equipment. captives here pleaded with authori go on so long as the hostages are Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospi “ We are willing to die here if you tal on Wednesday received four make any attempt to send us back nesday that some military experU There are some things that we have ties not to do “ anything stupid.” unharmed,” that the feds don’t. But this is a Prisoners in Atlanta were holding more inmates injured or ill in the to Cuba,” inmate Carlos Marrero- — reportedly a team of Army In Louisiana, a senator said civilian show. We’re not going to 94 hostages Wednesday, after seiz melee, said spokesman Jim Dris Gonzales told one of three television Special Operations Forces from Cuban inmates who held 28 hos Fort Bragg. N.C. — flew to Atlanta conduct an assault.” tages at a federal detention center ing 25 from a prison hospital early coll. One man was suffering from a crews allowed in the prison early gunshot wound, but Driscoll said Wednesday. overnight. Cuban authorities appeared would be willing to accept deporta in the third day of the siege eager to preserve the Immigration “ Don’t do anything stupid,” said his wound likely was suffered The revolt at Louisiana's Oak “ We will not comment on the role tion to other countries but not to agreement, announced Friday. a man who identified himself as a before Wednesday. Grady now has dale Federal Detention Center on of these advisers or the nature of Cuba. the advice they are providing, since Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Negotiations at both prisons guard in a conversation heard on treated 20 people from the prison Saturday and the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta on Monday followed the any comment on A e ir assistance stalled amid reports of disagree walkie-talkies used by inmates’ this week, including guards and announcement last week that the might exacerbate the situation and Please turn to page 14 ments among prisoners and among families outside the Atlanta prison. inmates. Race at 10, School officials say thanks game at 11 for a special 4-course feast ’The 51st running of the Manches ter Road Race answers the star placecards in the shape of Pil behavior modification program, ter’s gun today at 10 a.m. in front of Bv Nancy Pappas where students can earn points for Manchester Herald grims’ hats were cut and painted. St. James Church on Main Street, The menu was planned and ingre doing what’s expected of them. I let them use those points for time spent with a record field of more than When they sit down to their dients were purchased or 6 500 entrants anticipated.