True Crime novel Betrayal in Blue; Stories that didn’t make the book part 4
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Betrayal in Blue: The shocking memoir of the scandal that rocked the NYPD
Bizarre deaths
Working in the seven five precinct as a police officer handling a job that involves death becomes common place.
On a day tour in the early morning my partner and I received a call for an aided case. Aided cases usually involve some kind of injury or sickness which requires an ambulance. Many times in a poor neighborhood like the seven five people called 911 for a free ride to the hospital. Instead of driving themselves or calling a taxi for a simple sickness that would normally go to your family physician. Unfortunately this would tie up emergency services for people in a real need of help.
The call came over elderly female states elderly male needs an ambulance. Caller hung up and no further information was available. My partner and I arrive on the scene, knock on the front door of a private home in the North end of the precinct. The woman answers the door and states “he’s in the basement”.
Not expecting anything more than a difficulty breathing or a fallen and I can’t get up case, we head down the stairs. On the far end of the basement is an elderly man sitting in a lawn chair. His head is slumped down with his arms hanging over on each side. On the floor below his left hand is a gun. He is shot in the chest! Not once but twice! There’s two bullet wounds clearly in this mans chest and he’s most definitely deceased.
The woman claims she didn’t hear or see anything. She went down to do laundry and found her husband like that. “He must have committed suicide. He’s been very sick for a long time.”
She didn’t seem one bit sadden by the scene in front of us. Either she killed the poor bastard or he had balls of steel to muster the strength to shoot himself twice in the chest. We called for the squad (PDU, precinct detective unit) and the coroner after the EMT’s pronounced him deceased.
As a patrol unit we never found out what the true outcome was. Detectives took the case and we head off to handle more 911 calls.
Another bizarre death involved a call for an elderly woman who fell in the courtyard of an apartment building. Upon arriving on the scene we are directed to a woman D.O.A. with her head split open lying in a huge puddle of blood.
We’re told by the people who called 911 that she tripped and fell. The hole in her head seemed way too violent for that. We’re thinking she was assaulted and robbed. We ask if anyone knows her name or where she lives. That’s Mrs. Smith (not her real name) she lives on the third floor.
I look up and on the third floor there’s a little two by two fucking window with the mini blinds mangled and hanging out. I look at my partner and he’s like “no fucking way she crawled through that little window.”
EMT’s arrive on the scene and my partner and I head upstairs to the apartment. The door is broken in and we’re thinking ok someone broke in, killed her, then shoved her through the window. The neighbor outside the door said the other cop kicked the door in. We go inside and there’s a scooter cop going through the bedroom dresser draws. The woman’s purse is emptied out on the bed. In plain sight are medical cards and an empty wallet. He blurts out I’m just looking for her I.D. We tell him he’s making a possible suicide look like a break-in.
This woman got herself into the tub climbed up into this little chest high window and somehow squeezed herself through to end her life by jumping head first. What a sad way to end ones own life.
By now the boss arrives on the scene and blows his top because he hears the same story from the neighbors that another cop kicked in the woman’s door.
I get on the radio and tell central the scooter unit is handling the job. We’re available for other calls.
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Eurell teamed up with award winning author Burl Barer and Frank Girardot to co-author the hard hitting true crime novel titled:
Betrayal in Blue: The shocking memoir of the scandal that rocked the NYPD
Ken Eurell 