Cobra Killer by Conway Peter A. & Stoner Andrew E

Author:Conway, Peter A. & Stoner, Andrew E. [Stoner, Andrew E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Magnus Books
Published: 2012-05-24T05:00:00+00:00

Attempting to “interview” Harlow and Joe

Detectives Higgins and state police detective Daniel Yursha were sent in to attempt to question Cuadra, while state investigator Leo Hannon and FBI Special Agent James Glenn met with Kerekes.

Cuadra was in no mood to talk. “He said, ‘I have an attorney, I want an attorney, I have Barry Taylor,’” Higgins recalled. “We said, ‘OK, but we’re going to read, if you want, we’re going to read these charges to you.’”(4)

That done, questioning of Cuadra stopped and Higgins and Yursha left the room to prepare to book Cuadra at the Virginia Beach lockup to await extradition to Pennsylvania. “What I remember the most is that we left the room and when we were going back in, (Cuadra) says to us, he looks up at us and says, ‘Joe didn’t do this.’ He just volunteers this as we walk in the door to tell him he is going to go to the lockup and that he would be hearing from us again,” Higgins said.(5)

Prevented from questioning him further because of his request for an attorney, Higgins told Cuadra that if he and his attorney decided they wanted to make a statement, Pennsylvania detectives would return immediately to Virginia. “I told him, ‘We would love to sit down with you and hear your side of the story,’” Higgins said. That never happened.(6)

In the short time they did spend together, Higgins came away unimpressed with Cuadra. “He is a male prostitute, and he comes across as soft, by the way he speaks and his mannerisms, but I can see right through that,” Higgins said. “I can see him for what he is, he is a prostitute. He acts like that to get people to do what he wants, to manipulate people.”(7)

Hannon and Glenn would fare no better with Kerekes, though there were more fireworks. Kerekes would later describe the exchange as a “soap opera” as he and his lawyers successfully sought to suppress statements the always talkative Kerekes made to the officers. He said his first and only words to investigators were, “I want a lawyer.”(8)

Hannon and Glenn filed a report reflecting a very different type of meeting. Their report shows they first approached Kerekes in an interview room at the Virginia Beach Police Department at 8:20 P.M. and continued talking to him, on and off, until at least 10:04 P.M. that spring evening.

Hannon said he followed his normal procedure, informing Kerekes that he was under arrest, read him his Miranda rights, and informed him that he intended to read him the actual charge from the court. “I told him I didn’t want to hear it,” Kerekes would later say. “I just put my head down and he went on (reading).” Kerekes insists no one read him his rights, and they ignored his twice repeated requests for an attorney. “I asked twice for a lawyer, I never once interrupted…my head was down, I was just listening,” Kerekes said.(9)

During a July 2008 suppression hearing on the matter, Hannon testified

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