You know I have been on this subject for at least 8 years, yesterday was the first time I thought about what I wrote above.
The dead guy is a witness for the cops and signed up by the DA. He is now the responsibility of the district attorney to see that he is safe and try to develop a case with the information he has given them. It isn't like he was informing on some kids selling pot on the corner. He is giving up some serious criminals he did some serious crimes with.
Three weeks after he becomes known to the DA/Burke he goes to the 'command central' of a major crime ring in Suffolk County. Whether is was invited to come to the garage, or he stepped in on his own is unknown to me. We know the owner of the garage accused this fellow of being a 'rat' only one week earlier. Any person with an IQ higher than a midget's shoe size has to believe this guy is going there for information and he got there with cops accompanying outside.
The guy goes inside and goes out to the car to get something....according to the news reports. He gets shot in the head and dies. In those circumstances one has to wonder if the killer even has a brain to kill someone where the cops should have been secreting themselves monitoring their witness.
What is the obvious conclusion I draw from this: The killer(s) KNEW there were no cops in the area. The next question is: How would they know that? I don't think the shooter asked the victim if the cops were around and would believe him if he said no.
There are three prime suspects for this murder: Joe C, Rob S, and Eddie W. Eddie is most likely the killer. He is doing 40+ years in a federal prison for drugs and gun smuggling. He pled out to those charges. If he went to trial he might have gotten 50 years. He gained nothing by pleading out.
The next question is how did the killer(s) know the guy was informant and have enough information to kill him after he was only a cooperating witness for 3 weeks at that time. Lets think about Joe C and his Infamous Neighbor. The neighbor had to know the victim was cooperating. The neighbor shouldn't have let that guy leave the building without protection by hiding his witness. The neighbor would also know Joe C was a weasel and a rat. He ratted out others before and escaped jail time. If the cops got their hands of Joe C there is nothing he wouldn't have talked about to get himself a free pass.
When the cops went to Florida to bring back Joe C on a Material Witness order, Spota sent down his trust ADA Scott Prudenti to go with the cops. As an 'officer of the court', Prudenti could be counted on to protect the rights of a potential defendant and stop the cops from talking to Joe C if he asked for an attorney. And, that is exactly what Joe C did when he told them to speak to his lawyer, Ray Perini.
Joe C was lucky while Peter G was not. Joe was housed in area motels and hotels in Suffolk County for the better part of a year. He had to conduct his illegal mortgage/bank fraud scheme via telephone. They would not deprive him of his revenue source. They needed him to be a happy fellow. He hatched a scheme with Prudenti and Perini to sever himself from his previous crimes, but not two murders he may have been involved with. But he was never prosecuted for those murders.
When he was brought back to NY he had two things in mind: get out of the murder investigation and lie for the DA about my son in law, and to testify against Eddie W in his federal trial. HE was escorted to court each day by a SCPD detective and a ATF Agent.
Again, why do I tell you this on a LISK Board? I tell you this to give you some insight how these people work. They can't be trusted for anything, much less the investigation of 5 prostitues that were found dead on Gilgo Beach.