Actually, after nearly 60 years, how can much of anything be confirmed? I saw a name and forgot to erase unnamed [silly me] So this Dr Helpern just went ahead and sluffed off all the weird stuff huh?
Mr Scully likes to delve into news articles of this type...say perhaps exploring the mysterious disappearance of Warren Commission member and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs...a victim of the infamous Alaskan Triangle [so they say]
Jerry, I regard you as a curious mix of CT and authoritarian. Please read the seven page .pdf at this link.:
https://web.williams.edu/Psychology/Faculty/Kassin/files/Kassin%20(2017)%20-%20Kitty%20Genovese.pdf
The Killing of Kitty Genovese: What Else
Does This Case Tell Us?
Saul M. Kassin - John Jay College of Criminal Justice - 2017
.....At (Alvin) Mitchell’s first trial, Moseley
recounted his depraved spree of violence—including the
step-by-step account of the late-night walk through the
Kralik house and murder. However, this time he refused
to talk: “I didn’t do it,” he testified, “and I don’t intend to
go into any explanation why.”
Mitchell could not catch a break. At 1:35 a.m. on March
12, 1965, after more than 11 hours of deliberation, the
jury convicted Mitchell—not of murder, but of firstdegree manslaughter. He served 12 years and 8 months
before being released. According to Mitchell, he was eligible for parole before then but was denied because he
would not express remorse.
At the time of his death in 2016, Moseley was at the
Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Three
years ago, embedded in a letter to Moseley from a former
inmate and friend of his, I asked him about the Kralik
murder. In light of all that I had uncovered, I had two
questions: Did you kill her, and why at Mitchell’s second
trial did you refuse to repeat the confession you had
given in excruciating detail five times before? ....
This is what the seven page paper excerpted above hints to me, about Jerry. Author Mark Shaw who filed the motion in October, 2019 to exhume the remains of Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar, claimed in the motion it was not clear why a Brooklyn Asst. M.E. had been assigned to perform the Kilgallen autopsy, since she had been found dead in Manhattan. However, the autopsy report describes the place of the autopsy as the 520 First Ave., Manhattan office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
I think Jerry and author Mark Shaw wish for something that did not exist in the 1963 - 1965 period, not in Dallas, and in the details documented in the link in the quote box above, very likely not in NYC, either.
Another excerpt:
...... Determined to defend Mitchell’s prior
confession to Kralik, police were relieved when Moseley
appeared to misstate how Annie Mae Johnson was killed
1 month earlier. He said he shot her twice in the stomach
and four times in the back with a .22-caliber rifle before
sexually assaulting her and setting fire to her house. But
the Medical Examiner had concluded that she died of
puncture wounds from an ice pick or some other sharp
object.
Moseley was confronted with this apparent inconsistency, but he stood by his story. To discredit him, and
thereby preserve the Mitchell prosecution, authorities
flew to Ms. Johnson’s home state of South Carolina,
where she was buried, and exhumed her body. To everyone’s astonishment, however, the local coroner confirmed
Moseley’s account. Ms. Johnson was shot six times with a
376 Kassin
.22 caliber rifle—just as he had said. Four bullets, detected
in X-rays, were removed from her body.
Although Moseley’s culpability in the Johnson murder
was beyond dispute, the Queens District Attorney never
prosecuted him for it—even while citing this gruesome
crime in a letter opposing his parole 47 years later. In that
letter, the Queens District Attorney’s Office described
Moseley as a “predator” with “an overwhelming compulsion to commit acts of violence” (Testagrossa, 2011).
Also astonishing is that despite Moseley’s newly demonstrated credibility (with confessions confirmed for
both Genovese and Johnson, he was 2 for 2 in baseball
terms), the already shaky prosecution of Mitchell for the
Kralik murder continued unabated. This decision was a
difficult one as the local press was suspicious of the
case. (For a retrospective first-hand account from the
prosecutor who convinced a reluctant D.A. to proceed,
see Skoller, 2008.) .....
Twenty-five years later, the conduct of police and prosecutors had not improved much, if the abuse of the Central Park Five is any guide.
Yet Donald Trump, who Jerry Freeman supports, Trump who was the most prominent prejudiced influence against the five at the time, still insists they deserved to be taken advantage of by authorities and have their lives ruined, despite the evidence as we now know it.
Dorothy Kilgallen was born on second base, Donald Trump, on third! My research informs me that members of organized crime and privileged individuals such as Kilgallen or Trump were among the few who were not taken advantage of by police and prosecutors because these accused were among the very few with resources and know how to contact timely representation by competent attorneys.
I had a close, late friend who was a NY State BCI senior investigator, forensics, who during his career participated in 800 murder investigations. Experiences he shared with me, along with details I linked to in the quote box above, influence me to say it is understandable why JFK's SS detail drew their guns rather than submit JFK's remains to local Dallas authorities and that Oswald never made it out of DPD's basement, alive!
If anything, FBI and federal prosecutors of the 1960s were likely more professional and motivated to seek and arrest those, in fact, guilty, than municipal or state police in most states.
Dorothy Kilgallen was a troubled person in 1965, in an unhappy marriage and abusing alcohol and prescribed depressants. The odds against her death being competently investigated, at the scene, during the autopsy, or later were astronomical.
@ 1:40...My research indicates the autopsy was likely the most improved component, after she was found dead in a bed she never slept in.
NYC cops and prosecutors wanted to clear cases, not seek new ones they likely intentionally tried to avoid a need to thoroughly investigate.The rest: of the April 1, 1964 article I posted the first column of in a recent post.....
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/01/archives/autopsy-report-on-slaying-erred-indicated-a-woman-shot-to-death-had.html
Dorothy's final episode:
