Category Archives: crime
911 call transcript from grandmother who killed herself yesterday
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 … Continue reading
Filed under 911 calls, crime, Public safety
Timeline fuzzy on Cheshire killings
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Cheshire, Cheshire murder, crime, News, Petit, Public safety
Cheshire murders
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Cheshire murders, crime, Petit, Public safety
Girl under the stairs
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.
Filed under crime, Public safety
Home invasion on Exeter Avenue last night
See The Hartford Courant story.
Filed under crime, police, Public safety
Stupid guy from Bristol
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Bristol, car theft, crime, News, Public safety, self-defense, West Hartford
West Hartford is home base for campus security professionals
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 … Continue reading
Va. Tech and school security
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 … Continue reading
Filed under crime, education, Public safety, school security, school shootings, Schools, Va. Tech, Virginia Tech
Cars vandalized in Elmwood
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 … Continue reading
Filed under crime, Elmwood, Public safety
Blood and gore in West Hartford
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 … Continue reading
Filed under crime, Hartford Courant, News, police, Public safety
