Kiss The Girls Goodnight by Mark Gado

Author:Mark Gado [Gado, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7953-2448-2
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2012-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

Onondaga Co. Sherff’s Office

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Detective Schmidt and the Sheriff’s Office were lacking one crucial piece of information. Because Jamelske’s third victim, Celeste, reported her abduction to the City of Syracuse Police, OCSO investigators were not aware of any previous abduction that had similar details. They did not know Celeste had described a prison that was virtually identical to the one in which Denise was held captive. As a result, Denise’s kidnapping was treated as if it were a one-of-a-kind event, when, in fact, it was part of a series of crimes committed by the same suspect.

Captain Rick Woolley, the former supervisor of the APU, said investigators immediately checked for similar reports and did not find any. “As far as we were concerned,” he said, “it was the only case of a woman being abducted and held in a concrete prison. And remember, the first two victims never reported their abductions.” Woolley, a 27-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department who had also worked in forensics and homicide investigation, saw a few inconsistencies in Denise’s recollection of events. “We did everything we could to investigate the complaint,” he said recently. “Looking back now, I am confident that we could not have done anything differently.”

Detectives took Denise out into the streets and drove her around for hours in an effort to trace the route she took to the suspect’s house. She looked through department mug shot books in an attempt to identify a suspect. Police tried to find the suspect’s vehicle, as Denise had described it, through DMV records. All their efforts failed to produce a workable lead.

“I was suspicious of her story,” Schmidt later admitted. “This sounded so remarkable. I don’t want to say I didn’t believe her, but at the same time a lot of things were running through my mind.”

Denise described the house that Jamelske had taken her to that night in May and provided many details about the concrete prison. She said that she thought she might have been in a city other than Syracuse, but could not be sure because she did not know her way around. When she described the dungeons, however, she was very specific. She told Detective Schmidt about the tub and the garden hose, the chair-toilet, the Styrofoam bed and all the graffiti in the rooms. She was adamant about one phrase that she saw—a few words scribbled in thick red letters across the wall by the bed. It looked as if it had been written with an unsteady hand, because the letters were crooked, uneven and tilted on an angle pointed up to the right. For her, it evoked terrible images of underground dungeons and medieval tortures, and when she said the words aloud, it made her shudder in fear.

“WALL OF THUGS,” it said.

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