{"id":467,"date":"2008-09-19T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T21:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:32:33","slug":"this-is-what-jean-sanseverino-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"This is What Jean Sanseverino Looked Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I noticed that from time to time people look for pictures of Jean Sanseverino. Jean was murdered on State Street in Brooklyn on March 8, 1951. \u00a0The following is from my book (a DD5 is the name\u00a0of the forms the detectives use to document what they do):\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There were 243 murders committed in New York in 1951, and 65 of them took place in Brooklyn, where Jean was murdered …\u00a065 is not a lot of murders.\u00a0 When the 82 precinct [now the 76] caught the Jean Sanseverino homicide it must have been a big deal, but the investigation was over quickly.\u00a0 The last DD5 where someone actually did something on the case was 1956, but significant activity ended within a month.\u00a0 A month.\u00a0 \u201cIf you don’t have the God damn thing solved in a couple of days you’ve got a problem,\u201d Deputy Inspector Vito Spano explains.\u00a0 \u201cIn most cases, if you don’t have viable leads within a couple of days, this thing isn’t going to go.\u00a0 You’re going to get stuck with a cold case.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Jean’s file, every DD5 after 1956 until 1984 says, \u201cNo new developments.\u201d\u00a0 Proof that a detective touched the file, nothing more.\u00a0 After 1984 no one in the 82 bothered to even claim that.\u00a0Today, everyone involved, the detectives, Jean’s friends and family, and any suspects are all most likely dead.\u00a0 The Cold Case Squad isn’t interested in picking up the case.\u00a0 “I don’t have time to look for ghosts,” Lt. Panzarella snapped.\u00a0 He wants to catch the murderers who are still alive.\u00a0 The ones who might beat someone to death again<\/em>.\u00a0 Understandably, the detectives want to save lives, so they don’t care about murderers who are dead.\u00a0 No one anywhere in the NYPD is trying to solve her murder.\u00a0 Her relatives aren’t writing the Mayor or Police Commissioner.\u00a0 It’s over.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Fifty-two years later, the scant information about Jean’s life is fading on the aging DD5’s, which are still kept together with straight pins.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed that from time to time people look for pictures of Jean Sanseverino. Jean was murdered on State Street in Brooklyn on March 8, 1951. \u00a0The following is from my book (a DD5 is the name\u00a0of the forms the detectives use to document what they do):\u00a0 “There were 243 murders committed in New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-7x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}