Murder suspects allegedly ordered burgers as body lay dead in bathtub
October 25, 2018
"...After killing a young Connecticut man — who’s battered and bloody body lay in the bathtub — James Rackover, 27, and co-defendant Larry Dilione, 30, chowed down on organic burgers and chicken bites, according to prosecutors.
Rackover, who is on trial for the barbaric slaying of Joseph Comunale, allegedly ordered $78.82 worth of food from Bareburger at about 4 p.m on Nov. 13, 2016....
Earlier on
Thursday,
Det. Daniel Smith told jurors about the blood he found all over Rackover’s apartment, despite the men’s efforts to cover up their crime.
Rackover and Dilione allegedly murdered Comunale, who they had met for the first time that morning, after an argument, which prosecutors suspect was over cocaine.
Dilione will be tried next."
https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/murder-suspects-allegedly-ordered-burgers-as-body-lay-dead-in-bathtub/
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Crime scene cop identifies 'possible' blood stains throughout James Rackover's apartment at his murder trial
OCT 25, 2018
"The killers did a lousy job cleaning up after themselves.
James Rackover’s Upper East Side apartment was chock full of clues that Joseph Comunale had been killed there despite frantic efforts to cover up the evidence, a crime scene detective testified
Thursday at Rackover’s murder trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.
NYPD Det. Daniel Smith said blood and telltale signs of a physical altercation appeared to be present throughout Rackover’s one-bedroom pad in a luxury E. 59th St. building near First Ave., where prosecutors say he and pal Lawrence Dilione, 30, fatally beat and stabbed the 26-year-old Hofstra University graduate on Nov. 13, 2016, at the end of a late-night, drug- and booze-fueled gathering....
Earlier in the week, jurors saw a mountain of suspicious items Rackover and Dilione allegedly left in the building’s trash that led cops right to them...."
Crime scene cop identifies 'possible' blood stains throughout James Rackover's apartment at his murder trial - NY Daily News
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