From CGI member oldmaninthedesert:

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Two more from Maury Terry's 'The Ultimate Evil'....

At 11:30 P.M., on a cloudy, moonless night, Starkey, Jim, Hank, his two companions and I sneaked into the eerie darkness of Untermyer Park. Jim insisted on letting Cinotti and his friends lead the way. "Somebody could get shot or beaten to death tonight," Jim warned. "I don't like this at all. Somebody might shoot first and worry about it later. I got enough problems—I don't need something like this on top of them."

Don Starkey was also on edge. "If anyone's meeting here, I just want to observe them. I'm not looking for any confrontations," he emphasized.

For ninety minutes, we searched the woods near the pump house and walked along the aqueduct. Each time an animal stirred in the bushes we froze expectantly. Then, shortly after 1 A.M., it began to rain heavily, and we abandoned the stakeout.

"Never again," Jim said later. "Not under those circumstances. I don't give a shit if Charlie Manson himself was going to be slitting a dog's throat, I just don't know how Hank and those guys he brought would react."

Jim, already skeptical of Veronica Lueken, as was I, now echoed Tom Bartley's distrust of Cinotti. My own faith in the detective wavered, and for several months I didn't speak to him. Our investigation of Rockman also ceased.

In April, I testified at Jim's pre-trial hearing at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where I repeated my limited knowledge of the Mitteager-Clarke-Berkowitz relationships. Since the Gannett Westchester Newspapers were now involved in the investigation, they sent a reporter to cover the hearing, as did other New York City media (but not the Post). In my testimony, I referred to John Carr and the conspiracy hunt, as did Jim, and our comments were reported by the press. We were still trying to get the message out.

On cross-examination, prosecutor Tom McCloskey thought he'd make a big point about clandestine operations by demanding to know if I attended the Marcy interview. Until he saw me in court, I don't believe he knew it was me, by name, who participated in the Berkowitz interrogation. McCloskey attempted to suggest I'd somehow cloak-and-daggered my way into the maximum-security facility. I managed to deflect his allusion by answering: "You know I was at Marcy, Tom. We saw each other there, remember?" McCloskey immediately dropped the subject.

Also that spring, Michael Carr, who had blossomed into a top suspect although he didn't know it, naively sent a press release to the Yonkers Herald Statesman. Editor Dave Hartley, who didn't publish it, forwarded the item to me. Dated April 29, it said:

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