If it Walks Like a Duck …
A Boston cop was found dead in a snowbank outside the home of another Boston cop. I guess that made him a copsicle. The host of the party is connected to shakers and movers in the town of Canton, where the death occurred. It wouldn’t do inconvenience the local power structure with a murder investigation. The state police were brought in and soon focused on a safe suspect. The dead cop’s girlfriend. She was an outsider. The lead investigator, a statie, (a term of endearment for Massachusetts State Police), soon concluded that there were no nude photos of girlfriend on her phone. Then the investigation went downhill.
Howie Carr, among others documented the twists and turns of the subsequent investigation and prosecution of the girlfriend. At the conclusion of the trial the jury failed to reach a verdict. The DA says he’s gonna prosecute again.
Public opinion is divided into supporters of the defendant and those who support the prosecution. Some of the supporters of the defendant have been passing out and or planting rubber duckies around town. Carr’s column details the latest antics.
The local cops may not be any good at investigating a murder. But rubber ducky conspiracies? Five search warrants, more than a thirty-page single spaced typed report, hundreds of manhours all leading to multiple charges of littering, a misdemeanor.
Lurking in the background are the Feds. The controversy has caused the FBI and United States Attorney to look into the quality of justice within the jurisdiction of the local District Attorney. No word on what they have uncovered in regard to the copsicle.
However, they took a second look at a “suicide.” It seems the victim, a pregnant twenty-three-year-old refused baby daddy’s offer to pay for an abortion. Baby daddy was a Stoughton cop who met her when she was a police explorer at the age of thirteen. Take it a step further, not only had he been screwing her back then, but he passed her around to the boys in the squad room. After an exhaustive investigation into her death, the Stoughton cops, with the aid of the staties concluded that she had strangled herself. The DA reviewed the report and concluded that the report looked good to him.
Baby daddy and former Stoughton cop was recently arrested for murder by the Feds. Sandra Birchmore timeline: Key events in ex-Stoughton cop murder case (enterprisenews.com)
I’m so glad I had enough sense to leave Massachusetts over fifty years ago. No, I am not a Masshole. I was born in the south and went north to spy on those Yankee bastards. I would like to think that cops in Texas would never stoop as lower as evidenced by the cops in Massachusetts. But I figure I’m only deluding myself.
I was proud to be a cop for thirty years. But the modern-day version gives me pause. Ask me what I did, back then, now and I’d likely reply:
I was a piano player in a whorehouse.