Marcia Maglisco, 62, was caring for her 2-year-old grandson in West Hartford when the boy drowned last week.
Here’s the Transcript of her 911 Call To West Hartford Police On Oct. 5, 2007
Williams: West Hartford Police Fire Dispatcher Williams
Maglisco: Um, yes, um I’m at 14 Foxridge Road. I need the police to come and arrest me, [...]
One of the most perplexing aspects of the Petit murders in Cheshire is the seemingly slow response of local police.
Part of the reason there’s such rampant speculation that the police botched the job – and perhaps lost the chance to save three lives – is that authorities are inexcusably withholding key information, including 911 calls, [...]
I’ve been reading every scrap about this awful, awful massacre of Dr. William Petit’s wife and two daughters. It fills me with disgust, and worries me, too, because I can’t see that anyone screwed up in letting these two animals out on the streets. Despite criminal pasts, they’d never been charged with anything violent. They [...]
Talk about a weird, troubling tale. This is awful on more levels than I care to contemplate. I hope those who played a role all wind up rotting behind bars forever.
Stealing a car with a bad muffler was 25-year-old Samual Ramos’s first mistake, but hardly the biggest.
Ramos, a Bristol resident, stole the 1984 Buick LeSabre in Bristol but came to the attention of West Hartford police when he refused to pull over after officers noticed the loud muffler, according to a weekend story in The Hartford Courant.
He dumped the car near [...]
It turns out that the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators is based right here in West Hartford.
Here’s its statement in the wake of the Va. Tech massacre:
IACLEA President Healy’s Statement on Virginia Tech Shootings
Statement of IACLEA President Steven J. Healy
WEST HARTFORD, CT (April 16, 2007)– The shootings at Virginia Tech University today are [...]
I have spent enough time at Virginia Tech in years past to feel particularly saddened by the nightmare that unfolded there yesterday. I’ve read about the dead, learned the disturbing details we are gradually finding out about the killer, and contemplated what anyone could, or should, have done to prevent it.
I’m afraid the answer is [...]
Channel 3 reports today that crooks smashed windows and stole all sorts of stuff out of cars along an entire block in a residential section of Elmwood.
Resident Jan Sweeney told the tv station that ”she never locks her car but will begin to do so now. Sweeney said that her ATM card was stolen out of [...]
Blood is sprayed on the apartment walls and flecked across the beige carpet. Bloody smears and handprints stain the hall and a child’s bedroom door. Wide swaths of gore smudge an ivory-colored couch. The phone on a nearby end table is spattered with blood, and there’s more around the corner in the master bedroom.
James Cheyne [...]
