FL FL - David 'Donny' Pichosky, 71, & Rochelle Wise, 66, Hallandale Beach, 10 Jan 2013

[nitsirk]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/03/06/toronto-florida-hallandale-beach-couple-police-update-asphyxiation.html

Florida authorities say a Toronto couple found dead in their Hallandale Beach home in January were asphyxiated, and police are looking for at least two suspects involved in the homicide.

Hallandale Beach Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy also announced in a Wednesday press conference a $51,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the deaths of Rochelle Wise, 66, and her husband, David Pichosky, 71.

 

[nitsirk]

The article has been updated with a timeline

Police have since put together a timeline tracking the couple's whereabouts on the day before their death. Flournoy said Wise and Pichosky were at the local Jewish temple in Hallandale Beach on January 8.

Later that evening, the couple went to WalMart, which police confirmed using surveillance video from the store, the chief added.

On the morning of January 9, the couple spoke to a family member via FaceTime video calling on their iPhone, said Flournoy. On January 10, the couple's bodies were found.

Last month, police released video from a neighbour's surveillance camera hoping to identify a woman seen walking to the rear of the couple's home on Jan. 9.

Hallandale Beach Police said Wednesday they are still hoping to identify this person, but haven't received much information or any leads.

 

[Snoopster]

OK, this case totally confounds me now. (as many are apt to do )

According to the cbc article linked above, the crime scene evidence shows that more than one perp was involved. Since they state that the victims were asphyxiated, what kind of evidence would show that? That doesn't imply blood and footprints.

Also, LE says it is obvious that the crime was senseless yet they also say they don't have a motive so how do they know it was senseless?

Finally, why did they release the timeline from the day before they were last heard from? Do they suspect that they bumped into some random people the day before who followed them home?

So many questions. :waitasec:

 

[matou]

Flournoy said investigators have determined that more than one person was responsible for the killings. He wouldn’t speculate how many killers were involved, and wouldn’t comment of the genders of those responsible.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...phyxiated_in_condo_florida_police_reveal.html

 

[Snoopster]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/06/3270023/hallandale-beach-snowbirds
Although the police chief declined to release any information about the evidence, he did say investigators were sure there was more than one person involved, and he was hopeful a “less culpable” person would be willing to step forward in exchange for a lesser sentence.

“Your freedom is short-lived but your incarceration may be diminished if you come forward now,” Flournoy said to the killers.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/06/3270023/hallandale-beach-snowbirds-were.html#storylink=cpy

Sorry for the poor linking but I haven't figured out how to copy and paste properly from my tablet.

 

[colette]

My guess is that they were tied up then sufficated with plastic bags like Lisa Straub and John Clarke were. It's quiet, the murder had to be quiet in that apartment complex full of old people. If nothing or very little is missing then I vote for paid hit. Someone conned their way in, then an accompliace helped in the murder. Possibly a man and woman killer team. With LE saying it was "sensless" I get the idea that not much was taken. I wonder more about the woman on the video since she hasn't come forward. Then again she may not look at the news.
I don't think it was someone connected with Rochelle but probably with David, the older of the 2. Rochelle's children are in Florida trying to assist in the solving of the murders.

 

[Hazel]

This surveillance image shows David Pichosky and Rochelle Wise
at a Walmart on Hallandale Beach Boulevard on the evening of Jan. 8, 2013.
( Surveillance provided by the Hallandale Beach Police Department. / March 6, 2013 )​

full article including VIDEO clip showing Wise's son and the couple's friend talking to reporter:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/hallandale/fl-hallandale-canadian-homicide-update-20130306,0,5185001.story

 

[Hazel]

another VIDEO clip showing:

• R. Wise's son and her best friend P. Gladman being interviewed
  
  
• Surveillance video showing the couple at a Walmart on Jan. 8th (around the 01:05 to 01:15 mark)
  
  
• Image of back area of the couple's home (around the 01:32 mark)

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/51000-Reward-Offered-in-Killing-of-Canadian-Couple-in-Hallandale-Beach-195601341.html

 

[Dushi]

WOW Le says he expects it to be solved but perhaps not until his retirement?

If it wasn't robbery... what was the motive?

 

[Hazel]

It looks to me that that woman is feeding the birds. She does act as if she is trying not to attract too much attention to herself, walking close to the buildings. Perhaps she feels a bit uncomfortable walking behind people's houses in case she isn't welcome, but wants to walk along the waterway, where the birds are. The gap that she walks through isn't even the closest one to the victims' townhouse.

Here's a map showing the location where I think the video was shot and where the victims' townhouse is specifically located (926 NE 25th Ave).

http://goo.gl/maps/vKNXG

Perhaps the woman was staying at a townhouse just on the other side of the tennis court and that was the most direct path to the water.

I suspect that LE just wants to know if she saw anything at all at the back side of the townhouses.

Thank you Snoopster for the Google map link

When on Google Street View ( link ), I see there is a white arrow on the road (in chalk) pointing either to the couple's parking space or the house. Of course it means nothing, but thought it was odd.

Also, using the navigation arrows, you can see that is the only house with the tallest palm tree. :waitasec: not really sure what I am getting with this, perhaps thinking along the lines that if it was a paid hit, like Collette suggested in her post # 66 , the perps could have been given that detail as reference.

 

[colette]

LE says the couple likely did not know their attackers.


Police had assured neighbors in the immediate aftermath of the murders that they were in no danger related to the case.


Sounds more and more like a hit.


http://forward.com/articles/172535/slain-jewish-snowbirds-neighbors-in-florida-condo/

 

[terin]

It also sounds like a hit to me. Either they were involved in something illegal or could it be that they decided to change their will and somebody in the family was not going to get anything or much less as a result of it?

 

[dotr]

Welcome to WS terin!

 

[ceecee30]

It also sounds like a hit to me. Either they were involved in something illegal or could it be that they decided to change their will and somebody in the family was not going to get anything or much less as a result of it?

I tend to agree with you on the hit aspect and also it being related to family but that's only my opinion!

 

[nitsirk]

Rochelle Wise's wedding band — valued at $16,000 — was missing from the couple's condo in Hallandale Beach, Fla., investigators said.

The ring is described as platinum finish with five half-carat white diamonds in a half moon shape and police said it may be engraved with the letters DCC on the inside.

The band has an unusual locking mechanism that allows it to open and close so that it can fit over a knuckle, they said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/04/04/toronto-slain-toronto-couple-florida-investigation.html

 

[matou]

I wonder if they had a cleaning lady?

 

[dotr]

Close up pics of the ring..
http://www.citynews.ca/2013/04/04/robbery-may-be-behind-murder-of-toronto-couple-in-florida/

 

[dotr]

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/04/florida-police-search-for-murdered-toronto-womans-wedding-ring
“We checked with the family and with about 50 (area) pawn shops,” Quinones said. “But the ring is nowhere to be found.”

Police have released photos of the ring and they are urging anyone who recognizes it to come forward"

 

[colette]

I am surprised took this long to come out about the ring. Rochelle was known to always wear the ring. Maybe someone who wanted the ring followed them home and made some excuse to get them to open the door at some point. They have not identified the woman walking around their apartment.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/04/0...ble-motive-in-deaths-of-hallandale-snowbirds/

 

[dotr]

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/786285/unsolved-florida-murders-leave-canadian-family-broken/

"Nearly eight months since the investigation began, the murders remain unsolved — and so many of Wise’s questions unanswered. On Wednesday, in his first extended interview, he said he wanted to bring attention to the baffling case, and the lives snuffed out by a seemingly random crime.

“Someone has to be held accountable. Justice has to be served for my mom,” he said. “I can’t change what happened. But she doesn’t have her life, so whoever did this shouldn’t have their freedom.”

No details have emerged about the case since the spring, when police revealed that Pichosky, 71, and Wise, 66, died by asphyxiation, in an apparent robbery that involved at least two perpetrators, who most likely did not know the retirees. (Wise’s $16,000 wedding ring was the only item taken from the property.)

Despite a $51,000 reward issued by CrimeStoppers in March, it has been more than a month since investigators received a new lead, according to Hallandale Beach Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy.

After analyzing more than 100 pieces of evidence from the scene, police have reached out to other U.S. agencies for help with the forensic analysis, an attempt to “re-energize” the investigation, Flournoy said.

“Right now we’re kind of rehashing our old leads and testing out our theories again,” he said"