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Ivan, I am very sorry to hear of the deaths. Such news is always devastating, especially when it's within one's community. I think it is police procedure to not release much information about cases under investigation. The rationale, as I understand it, is that information about an investigation released to the public via various media gives the perpetrator(s) an advantage and may actually help them elude capture. The same thing happened in Bellingham last summer when a young woman was found murdered on a mountain road in the area. There was no release of information until the suspect was identified. Once that happened and it became a search, of course the public was given a full description of the suspect and details of the crime. Unfortunately, the murderer has not been apprehended. Best wishes, Rick Hermann >Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 02:28:36 -0400 >From: Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: 2 frightening deaths - details suppressed? > >^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) > Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) > Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 50 deg. F :-) >******************************************************************** >I am sorry to not be as available to the List as I have been. Two gay >men hae been killed here recently. One was probably strangled, and the >other may have been strangled as well. We in the gay community still do >not know enough about the exact circumstances. No suspects have been >revealed or named by the police. > >One was a friend of many here in Portland, who was a Jewish architect. >He was very talented, and well-liked. His body was found behind a >dumpster, frozen in the snow, 60 miles away, in Augusta. We are told he >committed suicide with a gun. Yet an eyewitness insists that he was >strangled. Noone here could imagine him buying a gun. > > We do not know the name of the other man yet. His body was found in >his Augusta apartment after he had been followed. Stories are circulating >that he was mugged and killed shortly after leaving a gay-owned business. > >Tomorrow is my gay men's scrabble and cards night, so maybe I'll hear >more. > >Ivan >