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letter, well, that could be fabricated, right? It was very easy
to type a date from the past.
    What
made Maurice suspect Baldwin Borough more was the two phone calls he
received. Both calls were anonymous, but the two callers said the
same thing: Michael was arrested by Baldwin Borough Police
Department. On the first call, which took place before the discovery
of the car, Maurice hung up, thinking that it was just a prank.
    But
on the second call, which was placed after the car’s discovery,
Maurice became suspicious. And he became even more suspicious when on
July 15, 1980, Baldwin Borough Police Department issued a warrant of
arrest for Michael Rosenblum. The warrant was for armed robbery which
happened in April, two months after Michael was reported to be
missing.
    The
composite sketch issued by the police resembled Michael in some way,
but when investigator Stephen Tercsak made his own interviews with
the witnesses, they gave a different description. According to the
witnesses, the robber was a “white man”, who wore
“aviator mirrored sunglasses” which reached the top of
the eyebrows and extended down to the bridge of the nose.
    With
these descriptions, it was apparent that the only visible features of
the robber was his forehead and his chin. If that was so, then why
did the composite sketch include a man WITHOUT sunglasses, and why
did it resemble Michael? For Tercsak, the composite was made from one
of the flyers featuring Michael’s picture.
    And
as if caught in the middle of something, Baldwin Borough dismissed
the arrest after one week of its issuance. No explanation was given.
    This
made Maurice seek more help. He wanted to know if Baldwin Police had
something to do with Michael’s disappearance, so he asked for
the help of Attorney General LeRoy Zimmerman. However, Zimmerman only
cleared the suspicious police department.
    He
also said that the notice for Lisa must have been lost in the mail.
Their statement said 1) Whatever happened to Rosenblum was still
unknown, 2) there was no evidence of foul play, and 3) Baldwin
Borough Police did not violate any rule, as well as the Streets Run
Auto Boyd which towed and impounded Lisa’s car.
    But
if the following information is considered, Baldwin Police certainly
violated some rules: 6 and a half years after Michael disappeared,
Maurice received an anonymous letter that encouraged him to talk to
Margaret Haslett because she knew something about the incident with
Lisa’s car. Maurice did just that: he contacted Margaret and
she did have a disturbing revelation.
    According
to Margaret, two or three months after the vehicle was towed and
impounded, the chief of police, Aldo Gaburri asked his clerk, Fred
Cappelli to write a notice addressed to Lisa about her car. He also
asked Fred to backdate the letter to February 15. When Maurice asked
Fred Cappelli, he corroborated Margaret’s story. He said that
at that time, he thought nothing of it.
    The
chief was his boss, after all. He also added that Aldo Gaburri asked
him to deliver the letter to Chester Lombardi (the Senior Officer at
the River Road during the scene-- he was the one who found Lisa’s
car) and have him sign it. Chester didn’t agree to sign the
letter because it was backdated. When Fred told the chief about it,
he just asked him to sign the name of Chester, and not send it. Just
keep the letter there.
    Angered
by this information, Maurice demanded an investigation. When the
hearing was over, Gaburri was dismissed from his position, but he
contested it. Frustratingly so, he was reinstated and was supported
by the Civil Service Commission. For them, there was no “misconduct”.
The transcript of the hearing was never released, but it was very
clear that they chose not to believe Fred Cappelli.
    According
to Fred, it could be because Gaburri had friends in the council.
Civil Service admitted that there were “innuendos” on how
the case was handled, but the decision was based from what was
presented