Grosse Pointe residents aren't shocked Bob Bashara is behind bars
1:17 PM, June 26, 2012
Many in the Grosse Pointes say they aren’t surprised Bob Bashara is behind bars today, regardless of whether they think he is guilty of any crime.
“It’s a little surprising the way it happened – that’s all they could get him on,” said Clem Fortuna, who owns the piano shop on the next block from Bashara’s Grosse Pointe Park rental property on Mack Avenue. “I guess I wasn’t completely presuming him guilty before. But this latest piece suggests he’s the type of person that would have somebody killed. That certainly can’t be good for his case.”
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Angela Lasher, who’s owned the Sunrise Sunset Saloon on Charlevoix and Beaconsfield in Grosse Pointe Park for 22 years, said she’s been surprised to see Bashara come in to the bar/restaurant since his wife was strangled in January. He's been there at least a dozen times to play euchre on Tuesdays or to have dinner with his mother. Lasher said she can’t imagine doing the same if someone killed her husband, calling the crime devastating.
“I’d go to the other side of town where no one knew me,” Angela said. “I wouldn’t want to be around people for quite a long time.”
John Cavataio, 60, who’s lived at Nottingham and Vernor, a couple blocks from Bashara’s property, for 37 years, said the twists and turns of the Bashara case – the sex dungeon, Bob’s affair with another woman, the murder -- left him feeling uneasy.
“I feel very naive in my neighborhood,” he said as he took his pair of German shorthaired pointer dogs to Platz Animal Hospital on Mack, next door to Bashara’s property. “The S&M crap shocked me. Bob, he fooled everybody. And when you have someone who does that, you’re shocked for a moment, and you realize people are people.”
Cavataio said he doesn’t want to presume anything in the case.
“Is he guilty?” Cavataio said. “Sure don’t look good. That’s for a jury to decide. If he did do it and he’s declared innocent, karma will get him someday. He already threw his family away. It’s started already.”
Grosse Pointe Park resident Molly Susalla, 47, who hears friends talk about seeing Bashara around the Pointes, said she feels bad for his family.
“I just feel sad for his children, to be honest,” Susalla said today as she ran errands. “People just see him all over the place, walking around like nothing’s wrong. You’d think you’d be hiding in your den with the blinds closed. I think a majority of people think he’s done something wrong and needs to be accountable for it – not walking around.”
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