JUSTICE FOR LAURA JUSTICE FOR LAURA JUSTICE FOR LAURA JUSTICE FOR LAURA JUSTICE FOR LAURA

The above is a picture of my daughter, victim of a homicide in the 108th Precinct, which occurred on December 22, 1991 in a vacant lot adjacent to the Brooklyn, Queens Expy. and South of 34th Ave in Woodside, Queens, New York between the hours of 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM.

Laura was 23 years of age, her height was 5'9" and weighed between 130-135 lbs. with short brown hair and brown eyes.


If anyone has any information regarding this crime please e-mail me by clicking below or you can call the 108th Detective Squad at 718-784-5441/5442. All information will be kept confidential. There is a REWARD waiting for the person(s) who brings forth information that will lead to an arrest and conviction of the person(s) involved in this crime.

Best viewed in MSIE. Please be patient for the wave sound to download. It is a song recorded by a friend of Laura's, Mary Henn. If you read this page Mary, thank you so much for this lovely song, I only regret I could not get in touch with you to tell you personally.

If there is anyone out there who might have any information, please do not be afraid to e-mail me or call the police at the 108th Precinct. Please, if you can, help me and the police to resolve this crime.

I have received a lot of responses from people and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support and prayers. Some of you suggested I add some more information to my page. Unfortunately, there is not much more to tell. Bottom line, my daughter left to buy milk around 9:00-9:15 Sunday morning after she walked her dog. She was never seen alive again. She was found strangled to death. There are no apparent motives. She was not robbed or molested. She did buy milk and that was found next to her body, trampled. The milk carton was traced back to that bodega on 64th St. and Broadway. However, when questioned, the owners denied seeing her that morning. This I find hard to believe, since that store is not exactly swarming with customers at that time of day on a Sunday morning. I am not saying that they were involved directly in any wrongdoing, but I feel they could know more then they are letting on. Possibly because they do not want any trouble with the police for reasons of their own.

Her pocket was turned inside out but it is not known if that was done by the killer looking for money; or by inexperienced cops who first arrived at the scene. It is believed that the initial investigation was done carelessly as the cops erroneously thought that my daughter was a druggie who overdosed. It was not until closer investigation that they realized this was a homicide and my daughter was not a drug addict. I probably will never know the true answers to what really happened with the investigation that morning. My question is, "what happened to my neighbor who lived a couple of houses down from me? At one point, around mid-morning, I saw him arrive home, drunk or stoned, and he glared at me in a strange way?" Laura and I had words with him in the past. Could he have had a vendetta against my daughter? Where was he coming from at that time of morning. My suspicions are that he hung out up by that bodega. Why was he never thoroughly questioned by the police? By the time the police were ready to question him, he was already in jail for another crime and his lawyer would not allow the cops to interrogate him. That was 5 years ago, and as far as I know he was never questioned about his whereabouts that morning. I know Laura spoke to his wife on a couple of occasions. They did not know each other but they did speak briefly. I know this because Laura has remarked that she was a very sweet lady. Could Laura have, unwarily, said something to this woman about her husband's behavior in the past? Could this have caused trouble between her and her husband? Maybe vengeance was the motive that day? Or, maybe it was someone in a uniform that Laura felt safe with and walked with that person willingly under false pretenses? Maybe it was a stalker who secretly admired her and made a pass and became angered when she refused; since the police feel that Laura's murderer could have been someone she knew and/or trusted, or a person who could have had feelings for her. I am not at liberty to say, but there was evidence leaning toward this theory at the scene. Some of you may wonder why I cannot reveal all that I know. The reason being, that there is still an on-going investigation and I do not want to do anything to undermine this investigation.

I also questioned what happened at the coroner's. There was (so I was told) hair found on Laura's jacket but it is not known whether it was Laura's hair or even her dog's hair (or maybe the killer's hair?) Why was this not investigated, at least through process of elimination i.e., rule out the dog's hair if it was not his, etc.

Do I feel that, even though there may be a lot of questions that remain unanswered, there will be a resolution one day? The answer to that is "yes", I believe very strongly that this crime will be resolved. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the perfect crime, and I have faith that time will prove this to be true. I do not believe that the person who did this to my daughter kept it to himself. Somewhere, somehow he/she must have either confided in someone or inadvertently revealed his guilt. I believe that one day that person will do the right thing and come forward with any information that they have. I will continue to pray for that day to come soon.

Below are copies of an article which appeared in "Redbook Magazine". If you are interested in reading this article you can click on the picture to increase the size.