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[Update] Sentinel 10.08.05
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Holyoke Case Closed
By JEREMY CLARIDGE
The police department today announced that it is closing its investigation into the murder of Old Town entrepreneur Bernardo Holyoke. Holyoke was found dead in the bar he owned, the Five of Cups, in late April of this year.
Police Detective Helen Frye said that the police had followed through on every lead they could dig up, but that no further evidence as to the identity of the murderer had been found. "Of course we'll reopen the file if fresh evidence should turn up, but for now, we've run out of resources," she said.
She added that the department truly regretted its failure to produce results in the case. "Unfortunately, even the best forensic work has its limits. Ultimately, all of our leads just evaporated," she said. According to Frye, no witnesses gave testimony leading to suspects, and hard electronic forms of evidence at the scene were either damaged or nonexistent.
One of the case's most promising leads, concealed equipment alleged to be stolen from the Academy, has turned out to be more innocent than originally believed. Frye said that the items stolen from the Academy were simply automobile parts, and that some pieces were in fact obtained lawfully through a mechanical design class Holyoke had attended at the Academy in recent years. The other items were easily-obtained boards and motors one could find at most hardware retailers.
"We have discovered some information and made a few arrests," related to what appears to be a small-time fencing operation Holyoke was running out of his establishment, Frye said. But Holyoke was in no way the spotlight into the city's underworld that police had been hoping.
The police still have not been able to contact Holyoke's estranged wife, Kostka (formerly Jessica), who now resides in a Reconstructionist compound. "It looks like Kostka and Holyoke had not had regular contact for months before his death," Frye said. "We no longer believe she could give us helpful testimony."
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:14 am
tanner
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i scent a cover-up
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:21 am
Reason
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definitely, I mean why would he go to so much trouble hiding automobile parts with an EM baffler?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:34 am
Mosestrotsky
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I agree that it is definietley a cover up but maybe he was seeling car parts on the sly. Illegal parts stolen from vehicles. Not that I believe what I just wrote anyway.
Been thinking - should we ask to take out a personnal ad in the Sentinel to ask for The Advisor?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:55 am
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Reason wrote:
definitely, I mean why would he go to so much trouble hiding automobile parts with an EM baffler?
Likewise. And we know from Pietro's logs that some of the equipment was definitely *not* automotive parts - I mean, where in a car would you use a set of Klebold plates or a Reynolds ioniser (the latter of which is military tech?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:56 am
tanner
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so the police have been bought? or otherwise persuaded?
and by whom?
everything leads to more questions
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:18 am
WolverineFan
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Macavity wrote:
I mean, where in a car would you use a set of Klebold plates or a Reynolds ioniser (the latter of which is military tech?
Unless they somehow "accidentally" confused a muffler with a Reynolds Ioniser
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:19 am
Mosestrotsky
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Could the militray tech be off a military vehicle?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:30 am
cassandra
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well, it could be just to throw the cube theft group off the scent. Oh yeah, case closed, come out and relax!
PS. Dear Sentinel: It's Helena Frye.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:31 am
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There's definitely something fishy happening here. Almost certainly someone has been bought off and the case has been buried. However, that is not to say that Holyoake was NOT dealing in automobile parts. Perhaps it's a link to the accidental death of the Perplexian man who was run down by a malfunctioning Automatic car? (An Auto-Auto??)
Perhaps the car was serviced using parts obtained from Holyoake? Or am I pushing possible links too far?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:53 am
tanner
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sledgecallier wrote:
There's definitely something fishy happening here. Almost certainly someone has been bought off and the case has been buried. However, that is not to say that Holyoake was NOT dealing in automobile parts. Perhaps it's a link to the accidental death of the Perplexian man who was run down by a malfunctioning Automatic car? (An Auto-Auto??)
Perhaps the car was serviced using parts obtained from Holyoake? Or am I pushing possible links too far?
he sold some dodgy cheap Klebold plates to a dodgy second hand car salesman
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:58 am
Flidget Jerome
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So, how far does the cover-up go? Forensics obviously have to be in on it, at the very least.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:01 pm
sledgecallier
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Perhaps equally important, who is behind the cover up?? We know that there have been stories about the influence of the Recons but with all that has gone on before hand I feel that this is a little too obvious and we may be being led down that route as a diversion?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:05 pm
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actually, a coverup may extend fFrom the police PR department outward. It may not persist very fFar inward. That is, everyone who did the work on the case knows all about what is going on. But they tell the PR department to tell the media "nothing to see, move along." It's not that unusual, you know. Hold back some of the fFacts till you have more info to deal with.
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:06 pm
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