Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss

Author:Joe McGinniss
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Non-Fiction, Thriller
ISBN: 9781101608647
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

On the morning of Thursday, September 27, New Jersey and Philadelphia newspapers carried the news of Myers’s indictment by an Ocean County grand jury. News of the arrest itself several days earlier had not been reported. So September 27 was the first day on which the public knew that genuine progress in the investigation was being made.

It was on the same morning, after news of the indictment had been printed and broadcast, that the Ocean County prosecutor received a phone call from attorney Anthony Trammel, who was representing Felice Rosenberg.

In the words of the report prepared by the prosecutor’s office, Trammel “suggested” that detectives “respond to his law office” in Trenton for the purpose of reinterviewing Mrs. Rosenberg, whom, he said, “may possess certain information which would be helpful to the investigation into the death of Maria Marshall.”

Upon their arrival in Trenton, detectives were required to go through a preliminary screening with an associate of Mr. Trammel’s before being permitted in Mrs. Rosenberg’s presence. As McGuire wrote in his report, he “assured [Trammel’s associate] that Mrs. Rosenberg was not a primary target of this investigation.”

This was a little different from having the Skyhawk flagged down on the parkway and being dragged into the prosecutor’s office in Toms River and being fingerprinted and booked.

Whether in return for the heightened degree of courtesy and respect extended to her, or simply because she felt that as a responsible citizen it was her duty to assist law enforcement personnel in the performance of their duties, Felice in Trenton on September 27 was far more forthcoming than she had been in Toms River three weeks earlier, before Raymond DiOrio’s brief involvement in the case.

She began by saying that Rob had become “very nervous” the previous Friday night, after being asked by McGuire whether he knew L’Heureux or Grandshaw.

The next day, she said, she had gone with him to meet with his new lawyer, Carl Seely. Also present had been a private investigator named Gary Hamilton, whom Seely was employing for this case. The meeting had lasted several hours, she said, during which time she’d been required to remain in Seely’s kitchen so she could not overhear what was being discussed.

On the way home, Marshall, who had been extremely tense and subdued before the meeting, seemed almost exuberant. He told her that Hamilton, the investigator, would soon be leaving for Shreveport to “come up with alternative reasons” for any contact he’d had with “Ernie Grandshaw.” He told her he could not elaborate further because Seely had insisted that he not share “Shreveport information” with her.

The next day, she said, Rob had received the message from Roby on her answering machine about the urgent call from “Grandshaw” in Louisiana. She said he “became visibly shaken and turned pale.” He told her he “didn’t know what to do,” but thought he should speak to Seely before returning the call. She said she had become “concerned” over his “obvious distress” and had asked him why he was so upset.

The story he told her was the story of the bet on the NBA games.

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