Adam and Elena Emery articles

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: POLICE: R.I. BONES NOT MISSING MAN'S
Author: Associated Press
Date: November 7, 1994
Section: METRO
Page: 35

PROVIDENCE -- Two human leg bones pulled from Narragansett Bay in July are not
the remains of Adam Emery, who has been missing since being convicted of murder
last year, state police said. A Houston specialist compared the bones to a 1991
X-ray of Emery and determined they did not match, Detective Kevin Hopkins said
Friday.Dr. William Murphy examined the bones at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
at the University of Texas, where he heads the division of diagnostic imaging.

The Rhode Island medical examiner's office shipped the bones, a right tibia and
fibia, to Murphy after conducting its own examination.

Hopkins did not rule out the possibility that the bones may be the remains of
Emery's wife, Elena, who disappeared with him. The Warwick couple's car was
found atop the Claiborne Pell Bridge, and officials theorized the two faked
their suicides and fled.

The medical examiner's office announced in September that a skull dredged up
from waters near the bridge was that of Elena Emery.

The bones examined in Texas will be sent to a forensic anthropologist in
Washington, who is analyzing two human hip bones and a human left leg bone also
brought up by fishermen near the bridge.

"We're trying to do what we can for the families to make some closure,"
Hopkins said.

Author: Associated Press
Section: METRO
Page: 35

Copyright 1994, 1998 Globe Newspaper Company

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Paper: Newsday (Melville, NY)
Title: FATEFUL CROSSING
Author: William F. Powers. The Washington Post
Date: October 10, 1994
Section: PART II
Page: B01

One summer night four years ago, two nice young men who didn't know each other
went out driving, each in his own car, each with a few friends. Neither expected
any momentous events to befall him, for each lived, in his own way, a quiet,
unremarkable life.When they met that night on the Rhode Island shore, it was
purely by chance, and they barely spoke. But within minutes one man had killed
the other, and both were careening into the annals of crime, tragedy, celebrity
and, now, folklore.

Their story has everything a story could ask for: impulsive violence, mistaken
identity, rage, love, a suicide pact, a mysterious disappearance. When you've
heard it once, you have no choice but to tell it. If we still learned our most
amazing tales from troubadours, rather than from "Hard Copy," right now all over
the land we would be listening to "The Ballad of Adam and Elena."

The first stanza would mention Rocky Point, a tidy little amusement park on the
coast of Narragansett Bay. There, on Friday night, Aug. 31, 1990, Adam Emery, a
handsome 27-year-old junior executive, and his accountant wife, Elena, were
sitting in their car, next to the darkened bay, eating clam cakes and chowder
and drinking beer with Elena's sister and brother-in-law.

It was an informal celebration of Adam and Elena's second anniversary. They were
still in love, dizzily so. And going to Rocky Point in the summer to eat greasy
food and look out at the water is a ritual for many Rhode Islanders, especially
those from working-class families.

Suddenly there was a jolt from behind. Another car had rammed into the rear
driver's side of Adam's black 1985 T-Bird, which, like his home and his desk at
the office, he kept in immaculate condition. When they looked up, the other car
was speeding away, disappearing around the corner of a building. Adam started
his car and, at the urging of his companions, gave chase. When he rounded the
building, there was a shabby, reddish-brown 1975 Ford LTD in front of him, and
Elena was shouting, "That's the car!"

He followed it out of the park and pursued it through the streets of a modest
neighborhood called Conimicut. He would later testify that his purpose was to
get the other car's license plate, in order to report it to police.

After nearly two miles, the LTD either pulled over on its own or was forced to
the roadside by Adam, for here the stories begin to diverge. These things are
clear: Adam left his car, taking with him in his pocket, at the urging of his
wife, a survival knife. He approached the other driver, a 20-year-old named
Jason Bass. Jason gunned his car into reverse and tried to roar away, with Adam
hanging on the driver's door. Either in anger or in fear for his life - this
is in dispute - Adam withdrew the knife and stabbed Jason in the heart,
killing him.

This is not in dispute: Police would later determine that the damage to Adam's
car was not caused by Jason's car. Paint samples did not match.

Adam Emery had chased, and killed, an innocent man.

Three years later, after a sensational trial in which Adam expressed no remorse,
a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. The verdict was delivered last
Nov. 10, Adam's 31st birthday.

Several hours later, he and Elena disappeared. To the surprise of many here, the
judge had let him remain free on bail pending sentencing. His family and Elena's
had put up three houses as bail.

That evening, the couple's car was found abandoned on the Claiborne Pell Bridge,
which rises 215 feet above Narragansett Bay, and carries traffic to and from
Newport. In the car was the clothing they had worn to court, some of their
personal effects, and a receipt from a purchase they had made that afternoon at
a sporting goods store. Investigators later learned that they had bought two
black, hooded sweat suits and two sets of exercise weights designed to be worn
on the wrists, ankles and waist. After leaving the store, they had a meal at a
nearby Burger King.

Suicide notes from both Adam and Elena arrived in the mail a few days later, but
the police and just about everyone else - except the couple's family and
friends - concluded it was all a ruse. Too many of the details didn't jibe
with suicide. Adam had quibbled with the store manager over the price of the
clothing. It was a busy hour on the bridge, yet no one had seen them jump. And,
perhaps most persuasively: Burger King for a last meal?

Few watchers of the case doubted that the Emerys had skipped town, perhaps gone
into hiding in Elena's native Italy.

Then, several weeks ago, the unwritten ballad acquired a new verse: A fisherman
working the waters just north of the bridge pulled a skull into his net.
Forensic tests were conclusive: It was Elena's.

This story will not support many more implausible twists. If this is a tragedy,
and it's hard to argue that it's not, then it's time for catharsis and
resolution, for the cosmic meaning of it all to emerge.

But does it have one?

Jason Bass' blood was American Indian: his mother is half Cherokee, his father
mostly Cherokee and Mohican. You can see it in his morgue photo, which the
prosecutor held up to the jury during Adam's trial - the high cheekbones, the
beardless skin.

This fact has nothing to do with Jason's murder, but it's one of the innumerable
details from this story that stick with you somehow. When a person dies in
unusually senseless, or even absurd, circumstances, you find yourself wondering
which little parts of their life conspired in odd, undetectable ways to bring
them to the spot where it all ended.

Among other such facts, one learns that Jason had dropped out of school at age
16 and worked at a number of food service jobs, including flipping meat at
Burger King. His great goal was to open up a restaurant of his own. Just days
before he was killed, he had quit his most recent job, as a food concession
manager at Rocky Point.

A few days after Jason's death, says Cindy Bass, Jason's sister-in-law, she
accompanied Jason's mother to a local discount store, to buy a suit for his
burial. They told the salesclerk that it was for a family member who had been
murdered, and related the basic story as they knew it. Suddenly Jason's mother
found herself face-to-face with Melinda Apollonio, one of Elena's sisters, who
was in the store buying Catholic-school uniforms for one of her sons, and had
overheard the conversation.

"Why don't you tell the truth," Melinda fiercely demanded, "that your son
dragged my brother-in-law, that they tried to kill him?"

She was referring to Adam's version of events: that he had not intended to harm
Jason Bass at all. Concerned that Jason was about to run down his
brother-in-law, who was now standing in front of Jason's car, Adam had leaned
into the LTD to turn off the ignition. Jason had taken off in a frantic backward
zigzag, dragging Adam 1,300 feet as he hung from Jason's door. Adam said he had
feared for his life, and felt he had to make Jason stop the car. The stabbing,
he contended, was in self-defense.

The Basses say they have an especially hard time trying to understand why
Elena's family, particularly her brother Domenic, displayed such enmity toward
them during the trial. When the verdict was announced, Domenic DiRocco, a
strapping 27-year-old, shouted at them, "You [expletive] scumbags, we're going
to get you!" The Basses were escorted home that day by police and had squad cars
outside their house, just in case, for days afterward.

Raymond Bass pops in one of the videos he has collected and searches for the new
footage of the skull. He is on the couch with the remote control when he finds
the image he wants. The skull is tumbling out of what looks like a bunch of wet
kelp.

"There it is!" he shouts. "I've got a close-up somewhere . . . I've got so many
videos." He gets up to change tapes. Now he is standing right next to the
screen, using his finger as a pointer. "There's no lower jaw. And see how badly
decomposed it is? Nine months in the water and it would look like that? I just
don't believe it. It's what they want us to believe. And it's such a
coincidence, isn't it, that the skull was found so close to the date when the
Emerys and the DiRoccos were supposed to give up the properties they put up for
the bail? I'll go to my grave not believing it, unless someone proves it to me."

The state's chief medical examiner, Elizabeth Laposata, says she has no doubt
about the identification. Elena had had extensive dental work, exactly matching
that on the upper jaw of the skull.

Their friends and family are certain Adam jumped with Elena, that his remains
are in the bay too, and will turn up soon. Several leg bones and a hip bone have
recently been found by fishermen in the waters around the bridge, and the police
are having them analyzed to see if they are Adam's.

As long as the bones, or at least the questions about the bones, are still out
there, people will focus on them. Bones are solid; they are easier to think
about and search for than answers to such questions as: What is really in a
man's mind when he kills another person, or when he kills himself?

This is very much a seemingly hedonistic couple," says local radio talk show
host Mary Ann Sorrentino. "Liked to dress up, liked nice cars, liked each other,
were good to their families. So how do you get from that to suicide? . . .
People like that don't just say, `Okay, we find ourselves in this trouble, let's
jump off a bridge.' "

Or do they?

Many observers of the trial were struck by Adam's public lack of remorse. He
truly seemed to believe that he was as much a victim that night as Jason had
been. In pretrial negotiations, he refused to plead guilty to manslaughter in
exchange for a 20-year sentence. He thought he should and would be exonerated.

"He never said he was sorry," observes Marie Roebuck, a lawyer who assisted lead
defense attorney John F. Cicilline. She is sitting at a picnic table in a small
courtyard of Providence Superior Court, next to Cicilline, who is probably the
state's best-known criminal lawyer. Sometimes while he speaks, Cicilline, who
has represented some of Rhode Island's most notorious crime figures, reaches
down and picks weeds from between the paving stones of the courtyard.

"If Adam had said he was sorry, would it have been different?" Roebuck asks
Cicilline.

"It's impossible to get a guy who doesn't think he did anything wrong to say
`I'm sorry,' " Cicilline says.

Assistant attorney general Jack McMahon's view, meanwhile, that suicide was a
further example of Adam's refusal to acknowledge guilt. "Jumping off the bridge
is consistent with the murder," he says. "He's escaping responsibility again."

Many people note that Elena was the dominant figure in the Emery marriage. "I
don't want to lay blame on anybody," Cicilline says, "but the whole event
ultimately came to involve his wife and her reaction to the event. I'm not
saying she caused it, but she was more emotional in her reaction to it . . .
When he got out of the car, she handed him the knife, or made sure he had it."

The Providence Journal reported that when the verdict was announced, Elena,
"sitting behind her husband, squeezed her eyes shut and whispered `It's my
fault.' Then her face grew tense, she clenched her teeth and uttered, `I'm going
to . . . kill someone. There's . . . hell to be paid.' "

She also spoke a few sentences to Adam, urgently and inaudibly, but with the
cameras rolling. After their disappearance, the state police hired a lip reader
to watch the videotape and decipher what she had said. According to this
interpreter, her words were: "We will do what we originally said. You promised
me. We should have done this before."

"If there was a suicide plan," concludes Cicilline, "she was the architect of
it."

In Rhode Island, second-degree murder carries no mandatory penalty. The judge
could have imposed anything from zero years in prison to life. Had she come down
somewhere in the middle-20 years, for example-with time off for good behavior,
Adam would probably have served eight or nine years.

Elena was never charged with any crime. She faced no time in jail, just time
away from Adam.

Is that enough reason to kill oneself?

By all accounts, they were as one, intensely in love with each other and
determined to make a good life for themselves together - and well on their way
to doing that.

He was a solid, quiet, honorable man, raised in a middle-class family in
Cranston. On graduating from Rhode Island College he took a white-collar job
with a local plastics manufacturing company. The character witnesses who
testified for him in the trial, including a police officer friend and the
president of his company, were effusive about his integrity, efficiency and
organization, and his basic goodness as a person. As customer service manager
for his company, he had shown particular skill at dealing calmly with irate
people.

Pat Scavitti, a close friend of 25 years who also testified, says in an
interview that the two of them were once driving down a Providence street when
Adam stopped the car to help a homeless man he had spotted, and afterward
cultivated a friendship with the man.

When Scavitti, a law school graduate, once asked Adam whether he would agree to
a plea bargain, his friend replied: "Pat, I don't think I did anything wrong . .
. My name would be ruined."

Elena had emigrated from Italy as a young girl. Her parents, who had struggled
to make a life for themselves in a small central Italian village, had come here
pursuing the classic vision: the good life. To get it, her mother worked long
hours in a soap factory where she is still employed. Her father toiled just as
hard as a construction worker. Eventually the family was able to move into a
comfortable house in the hills of western Cranston, an area full of prosperous
people with Italian surnames. Elena kept the books for a construction company,
and was working on her college degree. She and Adam lived in an apartment in a
house her parents had once lived in, and still own, a plain multi-family
structure in an unattractive section of Warwick. Across the street are the Quick
Arms gun shop and the Warwick Rollermagic Skating Center.

They were just starting out, but they were beginning to acquire the
accoutrements of success. In the file on Adam's case, now stored in the
Providence Superior Court building, there is an envelope containing the physical
exhibits from the trial. In addition to the knife, the morgue photo of Jason,
and some other items, there are photos of Adam's car.

What you notice about the picture is that the damage was much greater than
prosecutor Jack McMahon portrayed it in the trial, when he said Jason had died
for a broken taillight. The hit-and-run driver who got away left a large dent in
the T-Bird's side.

Does that person, who was never found, know today what events he set in motion?

When Bertha and Alton Emery, Adam's parents, are asked if there are any lessons
to be learned from what happened to their son, Alton Emery's first response is,
"The one thing that goes through my mind is hit-and-run. I don't know what the
penalty is, but I think it should be harder."

Bertha Emery adds: "If it hadn't been the wrong car, Adam probably would have
been found innocent. How do you get across to people that Adam didn't know it
was the wrong car?"

This is the first interview the Emerys have given since Adam's troubles began.
They were the quiet element on his side of the courtroom. Elena's family had let
their emotions fly, but the Emerys just watched and listened.

They are anguished by portrayals of their son as a cold-blooded killer. Bertha
Emery says her son felt much private sorrow over the killing, though no guilt.

She produces a yellow lined piece of paper on which she has written out
highlights from Adam's "28 years of good conduct," the first of which is: "12
years of school without being in trouble."

She also shares a photocopy of the handwritten letter the family received from
Adam three days after the car was found on the bridge. The letter reads in part:
"I was at a total loss about what happened in court today . . . are not afraid
to die & we look forward to it-Free at last. . . . I write this letter with a
clear conscience."

Bertha Emery says she has concluded that "there was a reason for all the tragedy
that happened." But she doesn't know yet what it is.

Melinda Apollonio, Elena's 37-year-old sister, says that for three years
afterward, she lit candles in church for Jason Bass.

She is sitting with her younger brother Domenic, at a long dining table in their
parents' house. Out back the DiRoccos have a vast garden, a half-acre, with row
after row of tomato plants, which they harvest to make their own sauce. Their
father sells much of the produce, which brings in enough to pay the taxes on the
house.

Both say they believe that Adam and Elena settled on suicide as the only way to
tell the world they were innocent, and to clear their names.

"They were all in the wrong place at the wrong time," says Melinda of Elena and
Adam and Jason. "I truly believe that this was their destiny, all of them . . .
I truly believe that when God needs us more than our family needs us, He's going
to find a way to take us."

"The best thing you can do is not try to make sense out of it," says Domenic.

"Exactly," says Melinda. "You go nuts."

A Sunday afternoon in September, a group of women walked down the grass toward
the sunny shoreline underneath the Pell Bridge. Several were dressed in black,
among them Bertha Emery and Angelina DiRocco, the mothers of Adam and Elena. No
one said much, for they all knew the ritual.

First they added pots of fresh flowers to a memorial they have built-stones
arranged in a rectangle-in the grassy area above the beach. In the front row of
this plot, among the mums and lilies, stands a jam jar, inside of which is a
wedding photo of a handsome young couple.

Then they walked down to the rocky beach, where the wind was vigorous and noisy.
They held their hands over their eyes, squinting out across the gunmetal waves
and the whitecaps, toward Newport. The cars on the bridge above made whiny
metallic clinks as they traversed its joints.

Next, the two mothers climbed up to the edge of the rocks and with swift,
practiced motions, pitched small bunches of roses into the choppy water.

Then they turned back to the rocky beach, and began doing what they have been
doing week after week: scanning the shore for something solid to hold on to: The
bones of their children.

Author: William F. Powers. The Washington Post
Section: PART II
Page: B01

Copyright (c) 1994 Newsday, Inc.

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Paper: Washington Post
Title: A LEAP OF FATE - A CAR CRASH, A KILLING, A SUICIDE. THE TALE OF ADAM &
ELENA CUTS LIKE A KNIFE TO THE HEART.
Author: William F. Powers
Date: September 25, 1994
Section: STYLE
Page: f1

One summer night four years ago, two nice young men who didn't know each other
went out driving not far from here, each in his own car, each with a few
friends. Neither expected any momentous events to befall him, for each lived, in
his own way, a quiet, unremarkable lifeWhen they met that night, it was purely
by chance, and they barely spoke. But within minutes one man had killed the
other, and both were careening into the annals of crime, tragedy, celebrity and,
now, folklore.

Their story has everything a story could ask for: impulsive violence, mistaken
identity, rage, love, ambition, class resentment, a suicide pact, a mysterious
disappearance, and just a few weeks ago, the skull of a once-beautiful woman
turning up in a fisherman's net.

When you've heard it once, you have no choice but to tell it. If we still
learned our most amazing tales from troubadours, rather than from "Hard Copy,"
right now all over the land we would be listening to "The Ballad of Adam and
Elena."

The first stanza would mention Rocky Point, a tidy little amusement park on the
coast of Narragansett Bay. There, on Friday night, Aug. 31, 1990, Adam Emery, a
handsome 27-year-old junior executive, and his accountant wife, Elena, were
sitting in their car, next to the darkened bay, eating clam cakes and chowder
and drinking beer with Elena's sister and brother-in-law.

It was an informal celebration of Adam and Elena's second anniversary. They were
still in love, dizzily so. And going to Rocky Point in the summer to eat greasy
food and look out at the water is a ritual for many Rhode Islanders, especially
those from working-class families.

Suddenly there was a jolt from behind. Another car had rammed into the rear
driver's side of Adam's black 1985 T-Bird, which, like his home and his desk at
the office, he kept in immaculate condition. When they looked up, the other car
was speeding away, disappearing around the corner of a building. Adam started
his car and, at the urging of his companions, gave chase. When he rounded the
building, there was a shabby, reddish-brown 1975 Ford LTD in front of him, and
Elena was shouting,

He followed it out of the park and pursued it through the streets of a modest
neighborhood called Conimicut. He would later testify that his purpose was to
get the other car's license plate, in order to report it to police.

After nearly two miles, the LTD either pulled over on its own or was forced to
the roadside by Adam, for here the stories begin to diverge. These things are
clear: Adam left his car, taking with him in his pocket, at the urging of his
wife, a survival knife. He approached the other driver, a 20-year-old named
Jason Bass. Jason gunned his car into reverse and tried to roar away, with Adam
hanging on the driver's door. Either in anger or in fear for his life -- this is
in dispute -- Adam withdrew the knife and stabbed Jason in the heart, killing
him.

This is not in dispute: Police would later determine that the damage to Adam's
car was not caused by Jason's car. Paint samples did not match.

Adam Emery had chased, and killed, an innocent man.

Three years later, after a sensational trial in which Adam expressed no remorse,
a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. The verdict was delivered last
Nov. 10, Adam's 31st birthday.

Several hours later, he and Elena disappeared. To the surprise of many here, the
judge had let him remain free on bail pending sentencing. His family and Elena's
had put up three houses as bail.

That evening, the couple's car was found abandoned on the Claiborne Pell Bridge,
which rises 215 feet above Narragansett Bay, and carries traffic to and from
Newport. In the car was the clothing they had worn to court, some of their
personal effects, and a receipt from a purchase they had made that afternoon at
a sporting goods store. Investigators later learned that they had bought two
black, hooded sweat suits and two sets of exercise weights designed to be worn
on the wrists, ankles and waist. After leaving the store, they had a meal at a
nearby Burger King.

Suicide notes from both Adam and Elena arrived in the mail a few days later, but
the police and just about everyone else -- except the couple's family and
friends -- concluded it was all a ruse. Too many of the details didn't jibe with
suicide. Adam had quibbled with the store manager over the price of the
clothing. It was a busy hour on the bridge, yet no one had seen them jump. And,
perhaps most persuasively: Burger King for a last meal?

Few watchers of the case doubted that the Emerys had skipped town, perhaps gone
into hiding in Elena's native Italy.

Then, several weeks ago, the unwritten ballad acquired a new verse: A fisherman
working the waters just north of the bridge pulled a skull into his net.
Forensic tests were conclusive: It was Elena's.

This story will not support many more implausible twists. If this is a tragedy,
and it's hard to argue that it's not, then it's time for catharsis and
resolution, for the cosmic meaning of it all to emerge.

But does it have one?

Conspiracy of Circumstances

Jason Bass's blood was American Indian: his mother is half Cherokee, his father
mostly Cherokee and Mohican. You can see it in his morgue photo, which the
prosecutor held up to the jury during Adam's trial -- the high cheekbones, the
beardless skin.

This fact has nothing to do with Jason's murder, but it's one of the innumerable
details from this story that stick with you somehow. When a person dies in
unusually senseless, or even absurd, circumstances, you find yourself wondering
which little parts of their life conspired in odd, undetectable ways to bring
them to the spot where it all ended.

Among other such facts, one learns that Jason had dropped out of school at age
16 and worked at a number of food service jobs, including flipping meat at
Burger King. His great goal was to open up a restaurant of his own. Just days
before he was killed, he had quit his most recent job, as a food concession
manager at Rocky Point. Bass's half brother Raymond, 36, is the family
spokesman. He lives with his wife and two children on the left side of a small,
white duplex house in a working-classsection of East Providence. Welcoming a
visitor, he is shirtless, wearing just jeans with a belt buckle depicting an
Indian chief. One of his tattoos is of an Indian woman, and the house is full of
Indian-theme knickknacks.

Like virtually all the members of all three of the families involved in this
story -- Jason's, Adam's and Elena's -- Raymond Bass and his wife, Cindy, are
friendly, hospitable and generous with their time, eager to help someone who
wants to hear them tell once again a saga they have told hundreds of times.

Raymond Bass is now on a first-name basis with reporters and television
producers from all over the country. Any day now, he says, he is expecting a
package from "Eric from 'Unsolved Mysteries.' "

Like all the other family members, Raymond and Cindy have been chewed up by the
grief, anxiety and responsibilities of the last several years. Four months after
Jason's death, he had a nervous breakdown and spent a few weeks in a mental
hospital. He had been a private security officer, but he hasn't worked a regular
job since.

A few days after Jason's death, Cindy says, she accompanied her mother-in-law --
Jason's mother -- to Ann & Hope, a local all-purpose discount store, to buy a
suit for his burial. They told the salesclerk that it was for a family member
who had been murdered, and related the basic story as they knew it. Suddenly
Jason's mother found herself face-to-face with Melinda Apollonio, one of Elena's
sisters, who was in the store buying Catholic-school uniforms for one of her
sons, and had overheard the conversation.

"Why don't you tell the truth," Melinda fiercely demanded, "that your son
dragged my brother-in-law, that they tried to kill him?"

She was referring to Adam's version of events: that he had not intended to harm
Jason Bass at all. Concerned that Jason was about to run down his
brother-in-law, who was now standing in front of Jason's car, Adam had leaned
into the LTD to turn off the ignition. Jason had taken off in a frantic backward
zigzag, dragging Adam 1,300 feet as he hung from Jason's door. Adam said he had
feared for his life, and felt he had to make Jason stop the car. The stabbing,
he contended, was in self-defense.apping 27-year-old, shouted at them, "You
{expletive} scumbags, we're going to get you!" The Basses were escorted home
that day by police and had squad cars outside their house, just in case, for
days afterward.

Raymond Bass pops in one of the videos he has collected and searches for the new
footage of the skull. He is on the couch with the remote control when he finds
the image he wants. The skull is tumbling out of what looks like a bunch of wet
kelp.

"There it is!" he shouts. "I've got a close-up somewhere... . I've got so many
videos." He gets up to change tapes. Now he is standing right next to the
screen, using his finger as a pointer. "There's no lower jaw. And see how badly
decomposed it is? Nine months in the water and it would look like that? I just
don't believe it. It's what they want us to believe. And it's such a
coincidence, isn't it, that the skull was found so close to the date when the
Emerys and the DiRoccos were supposed to give up the properties they put up for
the bail? I'll go to my grave not believing it, unless someone proves it to me."

The state's chief medical examiner, Elizabeth Laposata, says she has no doubt
about the identification. Elena had had extensive dental work, exactly matching
that on the upper jaw of the skull.

A woman interviewed on the street by a television reporter says she thinks Adam
pushed Elena off the bridge and escaped; similar theories abound.

The two were so devoted to each other that, for those who knew them, this notion
is beyond preposterous. Their friends and family are certain Adam jumped with
Elena, that his remains are in the bay too, and will turn up soon. Several leg
bones and a hip bone have recently been found by fishermen in the waters around
the bridge, and the police are having them analyzed to see if they are Adam's.

As long as the bones, or at least the questions about the bones, are still out
there, people will focus on them. Bones are solid; they are easier to think
about and search for than answers to such questions as: What is really in a
man's mind when he kills another person, or when he kills himself?

If Adam's remains are positively identified, his attorney says he will move to
have the case dismissed, because the Emerys died before the judgment was final.
There is precedent for this move, which, if it's approved, would mean that Adam
will have died, officially, an innocent man.

In the eyes of the law, it will be as if nothing at all had ever happened.

'You Promised Me'

"This is very much a seemingly hedonistic couple," says local radio talk show
host Mary Ann Sorrentino. "Liked to dress up, liked nice cars, liked each other,
were good to their families. So how do you get from that to suicide? ... People
like that don't just say, 'Okay, we find ourselves in this trouble, let's jump
off a bridge.' "

Or do they?

Many observers of the trial were struck by Adam's public lack of remorse. He
truly seemed to believe that he was as much a victim that night as Jason had
been. In pretrial negotiations, he refused to plead guilty to manslaughter in
exchange for a 20-year sentence. He thought he should and would be exonerated.

It is tempting to think that when the verdict was announced, Adam was finally
hit by the enormity of what he had done, and that if he leapt from the bridge,
guilt was a factor in his decision. But those who knew him say that remorse
simply did not figure into it.

"He never said he was sorry," observes Marie Roebuck, an attorney who assisted
lead defense lawyer John F. Cicilline. She is sitting at a picnic table in a
small courtyard of Providence Superior Court, next to Cicilline, who is probably
the state's best-known criminal lawyer. Sometimes while he speaks, Cicilline,
who has represented some of Rhode Island's most notorious crime figures, reaches
down and picks weeds from between the paving stones of the courtyard. He and the
members of his firm, which includes two of his sons, spend so much time in the
court building that they have taken it upon themselves to plant little plots of
flowers and plants in the courtyard, and now he is further civilizing the space.

"If Adam had said he was sorry, would it have been different?" Roebuck asks him.

"It's impossible to get a guy who doesn't think he did anything wrong to say
'I'm sorry,' " Cicilline says.

Both note, as others do, that Elena was the dominant figure in the Emery
marriage. "I don't want to lay blame on anybody," Cicilline says, "but the whole
event ultimately came to involve his wife and her reaction to the event. I'm not
saying she caused it, but she was more emotional in her reaction to it... . When
he got out of the car, she handed him the knife, or made sure he had it."

The Providence Journal reported that when the verdict was announced, Elena,
"sitting behind her husband, squeezed her eyes shut and whispered 'It's my
fault.' Then her face grew tense, she clenched her teeth and uttered, 'I'm going
to ... kill someone. There's ... hell to be paid.' "

She also spoke a few sentences to Adam, urgently and inaudibly, but with the
cameras rolling. After their disappearance, the state police hired a lip reader
to watch the videotape and decipher what she had said. According to this
interpreter, her words were: "We will do what we originally said. You promised
me. We should have done this before."

"If there was a suicide plan," concludes Cicilline, "she was the architect of
it."

In Rhode Island, second-degree murder carries no mandatory penalty. The judge
could have imposed anything from zero years in prison to life. Had she come down
somewhere in the middle -- 20 years, for example -- with time off for good
behavior, Adam would probably have served eight or nine years.

Elena was never charged with any crime. She faced no time in jail, just time
away from Adam.

Is that enough reason to kill oneself?

By all accounts, they were as one, intensely in love with each other and
determined to make a good life for themselves together -- and well on their way
to doing that.

He was a solid, quiet, honorable man, raised in a middle-class family in
Cranston. On graduating from Rhode Island College he took a white-collar job
with a local plastics manufacturing company. The character witnesses who
testified for him in the trial, including a police officer friend and the
president of his company, were effusive about his integrity, efficiency and
organization, and his basic goodness as a person. As customer service manager
for his company, he had shown particular skill

Pat Scavitti, a close friend of 25 years who also testified, says in an
interview that the two of them were once driving down a Providence street when
Adam stopped the car to help a homeless man he had spotted, and afterward
cultivated a friendship with the man.

When Scavitti, a law school graduate, once asked Adam whether he would agree to
a plea bargain, his friend replied: "Pat, I don't think I did anything wrong...
. My name would be ruined."

Rhode Island is a small place -- you can get a handle on it, both geographically
and socially. People who decide to stay there after childhood, as Adam did, are
often those who like this coziness and manageability.

Adam met Elena at Barry's, a disco not far from Rocky Point that is frequented
by single people from Providence and its close-in suburbs.

Elena had emigrated from Italy as a young girl. Her parents, who had struggled
to make a life for themselves in a small central Italian village, had come here
pursuing the classic vision: the good life. To get it, her mother worked long
hours in a soap factory where she is still employed. Her father toiled just as
hard as a construction worker. Eventually the family was able to move into a
comfortable house in the hills of western Cranston, an area full of prosperous
people with Italian surnames. Elena kept the books for a construction company,
and was working on her college degree. She and Adam lived in an apartment in a
house her parents had once lived in, and still own, a plain multi-family
structure in an unattractive section of Warwick. Across the street are the Quick
Arms gun shop and the Warwick Rollermagic Skating Center.

They were just starting out, but they were beginning to acquire the
accouterments of success. In the file on Adam's case, now stored in the
Providence Superior Court building, there is an envelope containing the physical
exhibits from the trial. In addition to the knife, the morgue photo of Jason,
and some other items, there are photos of Adam's car.

Anyone who knows Rhode Island can't help but notice the license plate number,
AE-70. Here license plates have great social significance -- so great that
desirable tag numbers are actually passed down in families and argued over among
heirs. The ranking system is unofficial and complex, but widely understood.
Basically, the best plate is one bearing a low number; if there are any letters,
it's preferable that they correspond to the owner's initials.

A good plate generally signifies that the owner or someone in his family once
had a connection in state government, which assigns the plates. Adam's plate,
which he had obtained through a friend in the governor's office, was quite
desirable, in that it bore his initials and a relatively low number. Even
better, he got Elena a plate to match it, EE-70.

Also in the envelope with the photos is a clear plastic pouch containing the
tiny spiral notebook on which, that fateful night, Elena had correctly recorded
the license plate of Jason's car: AV-439. A tag utterly lacking in prestige.

The other thing you notice is that the damage was much greater than prosecutor
Jack McMahon portrayed it in the trial, when he said Jason had died for a broken
taillight. The hit-and-run driver who got away left a large dent in the T-Bird's
side.

Does that person, who was never found, know today what events he set in motion?

When Bertha and Alton Emery, Adam's parents, are asked if there are any lessons
to be learned from what happened to their son, Alton Emery's first response is,
"The one thing that goes through my mind is hit-and-run. I don't know what the
penalty is, but I think it should be harder."

Bertha Emery adds: "If it hadn't been the wrong car, Adam probably would have
been found innocent. How do you get across to people that Adam didn't know it
was the wrong car?"

She is sitting in a blue wingback chair that has a doily draped over its back.
An afternoon wind billows the gauzy blue curtains of the tall window behind her.

This is the first interview the Emerys have given since Adam's troubles began.
They were the quiet element on his side of the courtroom. Elena's family had let
their emotions fly, but the Emerys just watched and listened. In this interview,
Bertha Emery, who wears a short, neat haircut and clean white Reeboks with
slacks, cries often. The tears come especially when she is recalling the last
three years of Adam's life, before he disappeared, and how much he struggled
with his situation.

They live in an unpretentious, old-fashioned house on a middle-class Cranston
street crowded with similar houses. In the living room there are African
violets, a grandfather clock and oriental-style rugs on a wood floor that Adam
and one of his brothers restored. The Emerys and their house radiate warmth and
stability.

They are anguished by portrayals of their son as a coldblooded killer, and by
claims that the family looked down on the Basses.

More than a few observers of the trial say that every day, in the pews of the
courtroom, there was quiet yet unmistakable class warfare taking place: that
Adam and Elena's relatives clearly regarded the Basses as social inferiors.
"There was a noticeable disdain," says Bob Kerr, a Providence Journal columnist,
who thinks the class issue was part of the public's fascination with the case.

Bertha Emery says her son felt much private sorrow over the killing, though no
guilt.

She produces a yellow lined piece of paper on which she has written out
highlights from Adam's "28 years of good conduct," the first of which is: "12
years of school without being in trouble."

She also shares a photocopy of the handwritten letter the family received from
Adam three days after the car was found on the bridge. Its contents have never
been made public before, though a police spokesman pointedly noted that neither
this letter nor Elena's directly mentions suicide. The letter reads in part: "I
was at a total loss about what happened in court today... . We are not afraid to
die & we look forward to it -- Free at last... . I write this letter with a
clear conscience."

Bertha Emery says she has concluded that "there was a reason for all the tragedy
that happened." But she doesn't know yet what it is.

The Prosecutor

"I was useless Friday," says Jack McMahon, the assistant attorney general who
prosecuted the case. He is in his office in downtown Providence, speaking of the
day the news came in about Elena's skull.

McMahon, a Marine Corps reserve officer, wears a vest and large aviator-style
glasses. The families of Elena and Adam complain bitterly about the
aggressiveness with which he portrayed Adam as a knowing murderer, and about
McMahon's evident pleasure in the national attention the case won him. But
McMahon says that of the many murder cases he has handled in the last 15 years,
this one has been the most emotionally troubling, and was particularly so on
that recent Friday.

"I'd get up, I'd look out the window. I couldn't get any work done... . I just
sat here trying to make sense out of it and wondering why I felt so bad... .
I've dealt with homicides before. It just never struck like this, the dimensions
of the tragedy... . My kids and I drove over the bridge the next day and we
prayed as we went across."

McMahon says he studied existentialism in college, and Adam and Elena don't seem
like the kinds of people who would choose suicide to make a philosophical
statement. He views the act as a further example of Adam's refusal to
acknowledge guilt. "Jumping off the bridge is consistent with the murder. He's
escaping responsibility again."

Melinda Apollonio, Elena's 37-year-old sister, says that for three years
afterward, she lit candles in church for Jason Bass.

She is sitting with her younger brother Domenic, at a long dining table in their
parents' house. Out back the DiRoccos have a vast garden, a half-acre, with row
after row of tomato plants, which they harvest to make their own sauce. Their
father sells much of the produce, which brings in enough to pay the taxes on the
house.

Every once in a while during the interview, their mother, Angelina, who speaks
very rudimentary English, walks over from the kitchen and interjects a thought,
such as: Adam, "he-a kill one person. These 12, they kill two."

She means the jury.

Domenic, the admitted hothead of the family, says he doesn't regret his
outbursts in the courtroom and elsewhere, but he says he never threatened
anyone.

Both say they believe that Adam and Elena settled on suicide as the only way to
tell the world they were innocent, and to clear their names.

He says the incident spoiled the fondest dreams of two hard-working people: "To
be successful, to have the right kind of life, you have to work at it. To go to
the other side, to throw your life away and be a cook at McDonald's, that's
easy... . They wanted to be successful, they wanted the better things in life,
the American dream."

"They were all in the wrong place at the wrong time," says Melinda of Elena and
Adam and Jason. "I truly believe that this was their destiny, all of them... . I
truly believe that when God needs us more than our family needs us, He's going
to find a way to take us."

"The best thing you can do is not try to make sense out of it," says Domenic.

"Exactly," says Melinda. "You go nuts."

Under the Bridge

Last Sunday afternoon, a group of women walked down the grass toward the sunny
shoreline underneath the Pell Bridge. Several were dressed in black, among them
Bertha Emery and Angelina DiRocco, the mothers of Adam and Elena. No one said
much, for they all knew the ritual.

First they added pots of fresh flowers to a memorial they have built -- stones
arranged in a rectangle -- in the grassy area above the beach. In the front row
of this plot, among the mums and lilies, stands a jam jar, inside of which is a
wedding photo of a handsome young couple.

Then they walked down to the rocky beach, where the wind was vigorous and noisy.
They held their hands over their eyes, squinting out across the gunmetal waves
and the whitecaps, toward Newport. The cars on the bridge above made whiny
metallic clinks as they traversed its joints.

Next, the two mothers climbed up to the edge of the rocks and with swift,
practiced motions, pitched small bunches of roses into the choppy water.

Then they turned back to the rocky beach, and began doing what they have been
doing week after week: scanning the shore for something solid to hold on to, the
bones of their children

Author: William F. Powers
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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: SOCK FIBERS MAY REVEAL KILLER'S FATE
Author: Associated Press
Date: September 23, 1994
Section: METRO
Page: 30

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Sock fibers and old X-rays have taken center stage in the quest
to find out what happened to fugitive killer Adam Emery. A human leg bone found
last week in Narragansett Bay was carrying bits of socks similar to fibers
attached to human bones found earlier in the area. The threads are all similar
to socks purchased by Emery shortly before he disappeared, State Police
Detective Kevin Hopkins said this week.Police are checking to see if the
material definitely matches that of socks found in Emery's abandoned car after
his disappearance last November. They say they also hope to use X-rays of
Emery's right leg taken years before his disappearance to establish whether any
of the several human bones found in the bay since July are his.

The latest bone was found last week by fisherman Cecil Smith, in the waters near
where the skull of Emery's wife, Elena, was discovered last month. Three weeks
ago, Smith netted another bone, which was found not to be from a human.

Elena Emery disappeared with her husband hours after he was convicted of
stabbing a man to death. Police had considered both fugitives until her skull
was found. Police still consider Adam Emery a fugitive.

"Until we find his remains and they are identified as his, we are treating him
as a fugitive from justice," Hopkins said.

Author: Associated Press
Section: METRO
Page: 30

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: R.I. PROBES BONES LOOKING FOR LINK TO MISSING KILLER
Author: Associated Press
Date: September 15, 1994
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
Page: 64

PROVIDENCE -- The state medical examiner's office yesterday began examining
several bones found underneath the Claiborne Pell Bridge to determine whether
they may be linked to the disappearance of a convicted murderer. Jamestown
police said about six bones found along the Jamestown shoreline were turned in
to police Monday and delivered to the medical examiner yesterday.It was not
immediately determined whether the bones are human or animal.

Police say it's not unusual for bones from deceased ocean animals to wash
ashore, but that there has been more interest in all bones since the skull of
Elena Emery was snagged in a fishing net.

Emery was the wife of Adam Emery, who was convicted of murder in November. The
couple disappeared hours after Adam's conviction while he was free on bail
awaiting sentencing, and until Elena's skull was found, State Police believed
she may have fled with her husband after faking suicide. The Emerys' car was
found atop the bridge.

Despite proof that Elena died, officials are still treating Adam as a fugitive.

Bones found last week turned out to be animal bones. The latest bones were found
this past weekend.

Author: Associated Press
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
Page: 64

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: R.I. FAMILY OF MISSING COUPLE FINDS BONES BY BAY
Author: (AP)
Date: September 13, 1994
Section: METRO
Page: 23

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- The state medical examiner has yet to say whether bones found
by the relatives of Elena Emery under the Claiborne Pell Bridge are human. The
skull of Elena Emery was recently snagged in a fishing net under the bridge,
prompting her relatives to look for more bones underneath the span.The relatives
turned the bones over to Jamestown Police about 2:15 p.m. Sunday, police said.

They were delivered to the state Medical Examiner's Office for examination. A
spokeswoman for the office said it was not immediately known whether the bones
are human.

The discovery of the bones along the Jamestown shoreline came days after
authorities identified the skull pulled from the waters beneath the bridge as
that of Elena Emery, who had been missing since Nov. 10.

Emery and her husband, Adam, who was free on bail pending a sentencing hearing,
disappeared hours after Adam was convicted of murdering 20-year-old Jason Bass
in a traffic dispute.

The Emerys were last seen on the peak of the Pell Bridge between Newport and
Jamestown on Narragansett Bay. Relatives assert the couple leapt in despair over
what they considered Adam's wrongful conviction.

Police theorized the couple staged their suicides and fled, but the discovery
of Elena's skull proved them wrong in Elena's case.

Adam Emery is still being treated as a fugitive by State Police.

Police did not immediately say how many bones were found.

Author: (AP)
Section: METRO
Page: 23

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: R.I. POLICE SAY SKULL IS THAT OF MISSING WOMAN
Author: Associated Press
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: METRO
Page: 25

NEWPORT, R.I. -- A skull pulled from the water near the Claiborne Pell Bridge
has been identified as that of Elena Emery, who disappeared with her husband,
Adam, hours after he was convicted of murder, State Police said yesterday. Maj.
James Rowley said the skull, found nearly two weeks ago by a fishing crew, was
positively identified by the state medical examiner's office. No sign of Adam
Emery has been discovered.The pair disappeared Nov. 10 four hours after Adam was
convicted of murdering Jason Bass, 20. Their car was found on the bridge.

Relatives said they believed all along the pair jumped to their deaths, but
police had suspected the pair staged their suicides and fled.

Prosecutors said Adam Emery, 30, fatally stabbed Bass after following his car
for two miles, mistakenly believing it was the one that broke his taillight at a
Warwick amusement park.

Author: Associated Press
Section: METRO
Page: 25

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Paper: Rocky Mountain News (CO)
Title: SKULL FOUND BY FISHING BOAT THAT OF CONVICTED KILLER'S WIFE POLICE
BELIEVED HUSBAND, WIFE FAKED DOUBLE SUICIDE BECAUSE HE FACED JAIL TERM
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Page: 58A

A skull caught by a fishing boat in a bay was identified Friday as that of a
woman believed to have faked a double suicide with her husband just hours after
he was convicted of murder last year.

The skull was identified through dental records and X-rays, but there was no
evident cause of death, said medical examiner Dr. Elizabeth Laposata.Adam and
Elena Emery disappeared Nov. 10 after he was convicted of stabbing 20-year-old
Jason Bass to death in August 1990. Adam Emery, 30, had been freed on bail
pending sentencing; he faced 10 years to life in jail.

The Emerys' car was found on a bridge over Narragansett Bay several hours after
the couple bought 80 pounds of weights.

Divers scoured the area around the bridge at the time and found nothing. Police
have said the Emerys faked the suicides and fled.

Elena's brother, Domenic DiRocco, said he hoped police would now realize that
the suicides were real.

"We knew they jumped, we knew it all along," he said. "Everybody thought we were
trying to cover for them, but my sister and her husband, who was my friend,
believed their lives were over because of the conviction."

Emery is still considered a fugitive, Detective Kevin Hopkins said.

But Emery's attorney, John Cicilline, said his client isn't alive.

"Everybody knows that they're at the bottom of the ocean and this confirms it,"
Cicilline said.

Emery killed Bass after chasing his car 2 miles, mistakenly believing it to be
one that struck his at an amusement park.

Emery said he stabbed Bass in the chest in self-defense after Bass put his car
in reverse and dragged Emery as he held onto the steering column.

Family members said his wife blamed herself because she implored her husband to
pursue Bass.

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Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Section: NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Page: 58A

Copyright (c) 1994 Rocky Mountain News

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Paper: Sun-Sentinel
Title: SEARCH ENDS FOR FISHERMEN
Author: Sun-Sentinel wire services
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: NATIONAL
Page: 3A

U.S. and Canadian rescue ships and planes ended a four-day search for four
fishermen lost in stormy seas on Monday after their fishing boat capsized and
sank off the Massachusetts coast, authorities said on Friday.

Coast Guard officials in Boston said the search was called off on Thursday
night after no trace was found of the men or of life rafts carried by the
vessel, the Italian Gold.

Envoy claims immunity

NEW YORK - Vietnam's ambassador to the United Nations is claiming diplomatic
immunity after being accused of illegally digging for clams on Long Island.

Ambassador Le Van Bang and his driver, Toan Nguyen Dinh, were sighted on July
31 in East Hampton's Hog Creek, carrying plastic bags filled with clams, town
officials said.

The two men "acted like they didn't speak English when they were confronted
by the harbormaster," said the town prosecutor, Scott Allen.

Skull tied to suicides

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A skull caught by a fishing boat was identified on Friday
as that of a woman thought to have faked a double suicide with her husband after
he was convicted of murder last year. There was no evident cause of death, a
medical examiner said.

Adam and Elena Emery disappeared on Nov. 10 after he was convicted of
stabbing Jason Bass, 20, to death in August 1990. Adam Emery, 30, had been freed
on bail pending sentencing; he faced 10 years to life in jail.

The Emerys' car was found on a bridge over Narragansett Bay. Divers scoured
the area around the bridge and found nothing. Police have said the Emerys faked
the suicides and fled.

Boy spared death penalty

BURLINGTON, Ky. - A 17-year-old boy who killed his parents and two sisters and
then held his high school math class hostage at gunpoint will be spared the
death penalty in a plea agreement, prosecutors said on Friday.

Clay Shrout agreed to serve from 25 years to life in prison and to undergo
intensive mental health treatment, Boone County Commonwealth Attorney William
Mathis said.

Suicidal trucker taunted

ICARD, N.C. - A truck driver committed suicide after motorists used citizens
band radios to egg him on during a three-hour standoff with police.

Crisis teams trying to talk David Carroll out of killing himself inside the
cab of his 18-wheeler heard several radio taunts prodding him to do it, Burke
County Sheriff Ralph Johnson said on Friday.

Carroll, 32, shot himself to death with a rifle on Thursday in the cab of his
truck, parked at a convenience store. Police were talking to him over the CB,
and truckers passing nearby on Interstate 40 were mocking Carroll on the same
channel, Johnson said.

Johnson said Carroll recently separated from his wife, Anita, and told police
he was distraught over the breakup.

Rosa Parks has surgery

DETROIT - Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks underwent surgery on Friday to
replace her malfunctioning pacemaker, but doctors said it was unclear whether
the problem was related to the recent break-in and assault she suffered.

Doctors at Harper Hospital in Detroit said the malfunction, related to
cracked insulation on the device's lead wire, was discovered during a monthly
check on Thursday.

Parks, 81, was admitted to the hospital on Friday, and the procedure,
performed with local anesthesia, was successful.

2 contest extradition

SANTA FE, N.M. - Two suspects in a cross-country crime spree that included
three slayings and a kidnapping contested extradition efforts by three states on
Friday.

Ohio and Oklahoma are seeking extradition of Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Oklahoma
and Missouri are seeking extradition of Eric Elliott, 16, attorneys said at a
court hearing in Santa Fe.

The suspects also pleaded not guilty to New Mexico charges of being fugitives
from justice.

Family sues cruise ship

SAN FRANCISCO - A family who fell ill aboard a luxury cruise ship has sued the
cruise line for more than $3 million, saying the ship was "unsafe, unseaworthy
and unhealthful," their attorney said on Friday.

Stephen Jackson, Sherry Hall and their two daughters, ages 7 and 14, were
among more than 600 passengers who became sick on the cruise ship Viking
Serenade during a Los Angeles-to-Mexico cruise last week. The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention identified the illness as shigellosis.

Author: Sun-Sentinel wire services
Section: NATIONAL
Page: 3A

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Paper: THE SEATTLE TIMES
Title: SKULL DISCOVERY COULD MEAN FUGITIVE DIDN'T FAKE SUICIDE AFTER ALL
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: NEWS
Page: A7

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A skull retrieved from the water by a fishing boat was
identified yesterday as that of a woman believed to have faked a double suicide
with her husband just hours after he was convicted of murder last year The
skull was identified through dental records and X-rays, but there was no obvious
cause of death, said medical examiner Dr.

Elizabeth Laposata.

Adam and Elena Emery disappeared Nov. 10 after he was convicted of stabbing
20-year-old Jason Bass to death in August 1990. Adam Emery, 30, had been free on
bail pending sentencing; he faced 10 years to life in jail.

The Emerys' car was found on a bridge over Narragansett Bay several hours
after the couple bought 80 pounds of weights from a sporting-goods store.

Divers scoured the area and found nothing. Police believed the Emerys faked
the suicides and fled.

Elena Emery's brother, Domenic DiRocco, said he hoped police would now
realize that the suicides were real.

Adam Emery is still considered a fugitive, police Detective Kevin Hopkins
said. But Emery's attorney, John Cicilline, said his client isn't alive.

"Everybody knows that they're at the bottom of the ocean, and this confirms
it," Cicilline said.

Adam Emery killed Bass after chasing his car two miles, mistakenly believing
it to be one that struck his at an amusement park.

Emery said he stabbed Bass in the chest in self-defense after Bass put his
car in reverse and dragged Emery as he held onto the steering column.

Family members said Elena Emery blamed herself for the murder because she
implored her husband to pursue Bass.

Section: NEWS
Page: A7

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Paper: The Dallas Morning News
Title: AROUND THE U.S.
Author: From Wire Reports
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: NEWS
Page: 15A

Discovery blasts off on thrill-packed mission CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery
and its six astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on a thrill-packed mission
that includes a laser show, the release and capture of a satellite, and the
first free-flying spacewalk in 10 years. The space shuttle lifted off nearly two
hours late because of thunderstorms, rising from the launch pad at 6:23 p.m. and
piercing high wispy clouds as it arced out over the Atlantic. During the
nine-day mission, a $25 m illion laser aboard Discovery will beam pulses down to
Earth and measure the light bounced back from clouds, atmospheric particles and
the planet's surface. Scientists hope to learn more about global climate and how
it's changing. Discovery is due back a t Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 18. NASA
will extend the flight one day, however, if there is enough power.

Perot takes dig at Clinton during Denver speech DENVER - In a pointed
personal attack, Ross Perot said Friday night that President Clinton is
obligated to get congressional approval for military action in Haiti "since as a
young man he declined to risk his life in combat for this country." Leading a
raucous political rally, the Dallas billionaire said there was no justification
for risking American lives to oust Haiti's military dictators. But he said that
if Mr. Clinton decided there needed to be such an invasion "he at least better
be willing to ask himself whether he would be willing to die in combat in Haiti.
They like a dictator in Haiti, I don't know why." The attack on Mr. Clinton came
at the end of Mr. Perot's nearly hourlong speech at the first of 10 rallies he
plans for his United We Stand America group's effort to influence state and
congressional elections.FDA wants simpler labels on nonprescription drugs

ROCKFORD, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration wants to require simpler,
more easily understood labels for non-prescription drugs, including more
pictures, diagrams and bolder print - and less reliance on technical words. Just
as easy-to-read nutrition labels are helping people choose packaged foods, the
agency hopes simpler labels for over-the-counter drugs would reduce some of the
confusion in choosing medication. The introduction of new labeling requirements
is expected to be a drawn-out process, and it probably will be years before
consumers notice the difference. For the next several years, the FDA plans to
explore various ways to introduce the simpler labels.

Skull found in bay is that of suspected fugitive PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A skull
found by a fishing boat in a bay was identified Friday as that of a woman who,
officials have said, faked a double suicide with her husband a few hours after
he was convicted of murder last year. The skull was identified through dental
records and X-rays, but there was no evident cause of death, said medical
examiner Elizabeth Laposata. Elena and Adam Emery disappeared Nov. 10 after he
was convicted of fatally stabb ing 20-year-old Jason Bass in August 1990. Mr.
Emery, 30, had been freed on bond pending sentencing; he faced 10 years to life
in jail. The Emerys' car was found on a bridge over Narragansett Bay several
hours after the couple bought 80 pounds of weights from a sporting goods store.
Divers scoured the area around the bridge at the time and found nothing. Police
have said the Emerys faked the suicides and fled.

Rosa Parks has surgery to replace pacemaker DETROIT - Civil rights pioneer
Rosa Parks, 81, was hospitalized Friday and resting comfortably after surgery to
replace her broken pacemaker. The plastic coating on a wire in the pacemaker was
cracked, said Harper Hospital's Dr. Joseph Talbert. The pacemaker was replaced
after the defect was found during a routine checkup Thursday. "Her overall
condition is excellent. She's a very spunky woman and in good spirits," Dr.
Talbert said. The problem probably was not caused by the Aug. 30 robbery at her
home, the doctor said. Police said a man broke into Mrs. Parks' house, hit her
on the face and chest, and robbed her of $53. A suspect is in custody. Mrs.
Parks launched the modern civil rights moveme nt in 1955, when the Montgomery,
Ala., seamstress disobeyed a law that said blacks had to give up bus seats to
whites.

Author: From Wire Reports
Section: NEWS
Page: 15A

Copyright 1994 The Dallas Morning News Company

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Paper: The Kansas City Star
Title: Across the nation
Date: September 10, 1994
Section: NATIONAL/WORLD
Page: A8

Crime binge: Two men accused of a cross-country rampage of killings and car
thefts will remain in New Mexico for perhaps several weeks while authorities
decide which state will get the first chance to bring them to trial. Lewis E.
Gilbert and Eric A. Elliott appeared in Santa Fe County District Court on Friday
and took steps to at least temporarily fight extradition efforts by Missouri and
other states that want to prosecute them.

By contesting extradition, lawyers for Gilbert and Elliott gained time to
review some of the evidence against them. The lawyers said that would help
determine whether their clients would continue to resist efforts to return them
first to Oklahoma, Ohio or Missouri.

The next step is for New Mexico Gov. Bruce King to sign a formal extradition
warrant.

Columnist leaving: Columnist Anna Quindlen, seen by her colleagues as a top
contender to run The New York Times one day, is leaving the paper.

Quindlen, 42, who attracted a national following with her column, said Friday
she was giving up her perch on the op-ed page to pursue her career as a
novelist.

Sources say Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. had offered Quindlen top editing
jobs with the understanding that she would be in a strong position to become
managing editor when Gene Roberts stepped down in three years, and perhaps
executive editor after that. But Quindlen, who works out of her Hoboken, N.J.,
home and prizes her time with her three children, ages 11, 9 and 5, decided the
price was too high.

Skull mystery: A skull caught by a fishing boat in a bay near Providence, R.I.,
was identified Friday as that of a woman thought to have faked a double suicide
with her husband just hours after he was convicted of murder last year.

The skull was identified through dental records and X-rays, but no cause of
death was determined, said medical examiner Elizabeth Laposata.

Adam and Elena Emery disappeared Nov. 10 after he was convicted of stabbing
Jason Bass to death in August 1990. Adam Emery had been freed on bail pending
sentencing. He faced 10 years to life in jail.

The Emerys' car was found on a bridge over Narragansett Bay several hours
after they bought 80 pounds of weights from a sporting goods store.

Divers scoured the area around the bridge at the time and found nothing.
Police have said the Emerys faked the suicides and fled.

Section: NATIONAL/WORLD
Page: A8

Copyright 1994, 1996 The Kansas City Star Co.

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: WARRANT ISSUED FOR MURDERER'S WIFE
Author: (AP)
Date: February 19, 1994
Section: METRO
Page: 23

PROVIDENCE -- A federal arrest warrant has been issued for the wife of convicted
murderer Adam Emery, charging her with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Elena Emery disappeared with her husband hours after he was convicted of
murdering 20-year-old Jason Bass, who the Emerys mistakenly believed had hit
their car at Rocky Point amusement park in Warwick.The couple's car was found
atop the Claiborne Pell bridge and family members say they're convinced the
couple jumped. But State Police believe the Emerys are on the run.

Adam Emery was charged with unlawful flight last month. The charge against Elena
Emery was signed Monday.

The federal charges bolster state charges lodged against the couple several
months ago when Adam Emery was charged with being a bail jumper and his wife
with aiding and abetting.

Author: (AP)
Section: METRO
Page: 23

Copyright 1994, 1998 Globe Newspaper Company

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Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
Title: R.I. POLICE BELIEVE COUPLE FAKED SUICIDE AFTER MURDER CONVICTION
Author: Ray Formanek Jr., ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: December 15, 1993
Section: NATIONAL
Page: B06

Hours after he was convicted of murder, Adam Emery and his wife vanished in what
looked like a suicide leap into Narragansett Bay.

State police, unconvinced it was suicide, got a videotape of the trial and
hired a lip reader to look at it."We will do what we originally said," Elena
Emery was purportedly seen whispering to her husband immediately after the Nov.
10 verdict. "You promised me. We should have done this before."

While relatives say they are convinced the couple's final resting place is the
dark, choppy waters that flow under the Claiborne Pell Bridge, investigators
believe the Emerys faked their deaths and are now on the run.

Wanted posters have been distributed across the nation.

Adam Emery, 31, was convicted of murder in the 1990 stabbing of 20-year-old
Jason Bass. Emery thought Bass had clipped the rear of his car, breaking a
taillight, as he and his wife sat in the vehicle eating a takeout dinner. Emery
could have received 10 years to life in prison.

After the verdict, the Emerys' leased car was found on the bridge, the parking
lights on and the engine still warm. Their clothes were in the car along with
their credit cards and checks, which were cut into pieces.

Police divers searched for the bodies for six days. Detective Capt. Frank
Muzerall said the bodies should have washed ashore by now if they had been in
the bay.

Increasing investigators' suspicions, the Emerys were seen at a Burger King just
before their disappearance. Muzerall said it would be unusual for someone to
stop for fast food just before committing suicide. The videotape likewise
indicates they planned to take some action, he said.

Investigators believe the couple took elaborate steps to make their
disappearance look like suicide. Adam Emery's credit card records show he bought
two black hooded sweatsuits and 80 pounds of weights, apparently to lead
investigators to the conclusion that he used the weights for a leap into the
water, authorities said.

The couple's family has searched almost daily for the bodies, scouring the rocky
shore. Last week, the family hired a Florida diving team that once found an
8-inch piece of a Chinese aircraft in the Pacific Ocean. The team's five- day
attempt found no trace of the Emerys.

"I dream of them constantly, in the water," Melinda Apollonio, Elena Emery's
sister, said Monday. "In a way, I think my sister is trying to give us clues as
to where the bodies are. We know that they're in the bay, but how are we going
to get them out?"

Prosecutors began court proceedings Monday to seize Apollonio's home, a
multi-family dwelling owned by her parents, and the home of Adam Emery's
parents. All had been pledged to secure Emery's $270,000 bail for his Feb. 4
sentencing.

"It is our feeling that when the state moves to take the properties, Adam and
Elena Emery will realize the significant harm they did to their loved ones and
hopefully they will turn themselves in to authorities," Muzerall said.

Emery said he stabbed Bass in the chest in self-defense after Bass put his car
in reverse and dragged Emery as he held onto the steering column.

Family members said Elena Emery, 32, blamed herself for the slaying because she
had urged her husband to pursue Bass, thinking he had driven the car that struck
theirs. Paint samples indicated she was wrong, according to police.

Apollonio said Emery, a part-time National Guard police officer, had been
confident he would be found not guilty.

"He didn't die from the jump from the bridge," she said. "He died when he heard
the verdict. And Elena died with him. The jump was just carrying out something
that had already happened."



Author: Ray Formanek Jr., ASSOCIATED PRESS
Section: NATIONAL
Page: B06

Copyright (c) 1993 The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Paper: THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Title: WATERY GRAVES OR CUT AND RUN? - IT APPEARS A CONVICTED MAN AND HIS WIFE
KILLED THEMSELVES. AUTHORITIES AREN'T - SURE THAT'S THE CASE.
Author: Associated Press
Date: December 15, 1993
Section: A SECTION
Page: A6

Hours after he was convicted of murder, Adam Emery and his wife vanished in what
looked like a suicide leap into Narragansett Bay.

State police, unconvinced the Emerys had killed themselves, got a videotape
of the trial and hired a lip reader to look at it.''We will do what we
originally said,'' Elena Emery was purportedly seen whispering to her husband
immediately after the Nov. 10 verdict. ''You promised me. We should have done
this before.''

While relatives say they are convinced the couple's final resting place is
the dark, choppy water under the Claiborne Pell Bridge, investigators believe
the Emerys faked their deaths and are on the run.

Wanted posters have been distributed across the nation.

Emery, 31, was convicted of murder in the 1990 stabbing of Jason Bass, 20.
Emery thought Bass had clipped the rear of his car, breaking a taillight, as he
and his wife sat in the vehicle eating a takeout dinner. Emery could have
received 10 years to life in prison.

After the verdict, the Emerys' leased car was found on the bridge, the
parking lights on and the engine warm. In it were their clothes and credit cards
and checks, which were cut into pieces.

Police divers searched for the bodies for six days. Detective Capt. Frank
Muzerall said the bodies should have washed ashore by now.

Investigators' suspicions grew because the Emerys were seen at a Burger King
just before they disappeared. Muzerall said it would be unusual for someone to
stop for fast food just before committing suicide. The videotape indicates they
planned to take some action, he said.

Investigators believe the couple took elaborate steps to make their
disappearance look like suicide. Emery's credit card records show he bought two
black hooded sweatsuits and 80 pounds of weights, apparently to lead
investigators to the conclusion that he used the weights for a leap into the
water, authorities said.

The couple's family has searched almost daily for the bodies, scouring the
rocky shore. Last week, relatives hired a Florida diving team that once found an
8-inch piece of a Chinese aircraft in the Pacific Ocean. The team's five-day
effort turned up no trace of the Emerys.

''I dream of them constantly, in the water,'' Melinda Apollonio, Elena
Emery's sister, said Monday.

Prosecutors began court proceedings Monday to seize Apollonio's home, a
multifamily dwelling owned by her parents, and the home of Emery's parents. All
had been pledged to secure Emery's $270,000 bail for his Feb. 4 sentencing.

''It is our feeling that when the state moves to take the properties, Adam
and Elena Emery will realize the significant harm they did to their loved ones
and hopefully they will turn themselves in to authorities,'' Muzerall said.

Emery said he stabbed Bass in the chest in self-defense after Bass put his
car in reverse and dragged Emery as he held onto the steering column.

Family members said Elena Emery, 32, blamed herself for the slaying because
she had urged her husband to pursue Bass, thinking he had driven the car that
struck theirs. Paint samples indicated she was wrong, according to police.

Author: Associated Press
Section: A SECTION
Page: A6

Copyright 1993 Sentinel Communications Co.

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Paper: The Buffalo News
Title: POLICE BELIEVE CONVICTED KILLER, WIFE FAKED SUICIDE LEAP, ARE ON THE LAM
Author: RAY FORMANEK JR. - Associated Press
Date: December 15, 1993
Section: NEWS
Page: A13

Hours after he was convicted of murder, Adam Emery and his wife, Elena, vanished
in what appeared to be a suicide leap into Narragansett Bay.

But state police, unconvinced it was suicide, got a videotape of the trial
and hired a lip reader to look at it."We will do what we originally said," Mrs.
Emery was

purportedly seen whispering to her husband immediately after the verdict was
read Nov. 10. "You promised me. We should have done this before."

While relatives say they are convinced the couple's final resting place is
the dark, choppy waters that flow under the Claiborne Pell Bridge, investigators
believe the Emerys faked their deaths and are now on the run.

Wanted posters have been distributed across the nation.

Emery, 31, was convicted of murder in the 1990 stabbing of 20-year-old Jason
Bass. Emery thought Bass had clipped the rear of his car, breaking a taillight,
as he and his wife sat in the vehicle eating a takeout dinner.

Emery could have received 10 years to life in prison when sentenced.

After the verdict, the Emerys' leased car was found on the bridge, the
parking lights on and the engine still warm.

Their clothes were in the car along with their credit cards and checks, which
were cut into pieces.

Police divers searched for the bodies for six days. Detective Capt. Frank
Muzerall said the bodies should have washed ashore by now if they were in the
bay.

Increasing investigators' suspicions, the Emerys were seen at a Burger King
just before their disappearance.

Muzerall said it would be unusual for someone to stop for fast food just
before committing suicide.

The videotape likewise indicates they planned to take some action, he said.

Investigators believe the couple took elaborate steps to make their
disappearance look like suicide.

Emery's credit card records show he bought two black hooded sweat suits and
80 pounds of weights, apparently to lead

investigators to the conclusion that he used the weights for a leap into the
water, authorities said.

The couple's family has searched almost daily for the bodies, scouring the
rocky shore. Last week, the family hired a Florida diving team that once found
an 8-inch piece of a Chinese aircraft in the Pacific Ocean. The team's five-day
effort found no trace of the Emerys.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, began court proceedings Monday to seize the home of
Melinda Apollonio, Mrs. Emery's sister, and the home of Emery's parents. All had
been pledged to secure Emery's $270,000 bail for his Feb. 4 sentencing.

"It is our feeling that when the state moves to take the properties, Adam and
Elena Emery will realize the significant harm they did to their loved ones and
hopefully they will turn themselves in to authorities," Muzerall said.

Author: RAY FORMANEK JR. - Associated Press
Section: NEWS
Page: A13

Copyright (C) 1993, The Buffalo News

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Paper: THE SEATTLE TIMES
Title: SUICIDE LEAP OR COUPLE ON THE RUN?
Author: RAY FORMANEK JR.
Date: December 14, 1993
Section: NEWS
Page: A4

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Hours after he was convicted of murder, Adam Emery and his
wife vanished in what looked like a suicide leap into Narragansett Bay. State
police, unconvinced it was suicide, got a videotape of the trial and hired a lip
reader to look at it.

"We will do what we originally said," Elena Emery was purportedly seen
whispering to her husband immediately after the Nov. 10 verdict. "You promised
me. We should have done this before."

While relatives say they are convinced the couple's final resting place is
in the dark, choppy waters that flow under the Claiborne Pell Bridge,
investigators believe the Emerys faked their deaths and now are on the run.
Wanted posters have been distributed across the nation.

Emery, 31, was convicted of murder in the 1990 stabbing of 20-year-old Jason
Bass. Emery thought Bass had clipped the rear of his car, breaking a taillight,
as he and his wife sat in the vehicle eating a takeout dinner. Emery could have
received 10 years to life in prison.

After the verdict, the Emerys' leased car was found on the bridge, the
parking lights on and the engine still warm. Their clothes were in the car along
with their credit cards and checks, which were cut into pieces.

Police divers searched for the bodies for six days. Detective Capt. Frank
Muzerall said the bodies should have washed ashore by now if they had been in
the bay.

Increasing investigators' suspicions, the Emerys were seen at a Burger King
just before their disappearance. Muzerall said it would be unusual for someone
to stop for food just before committing suicide. The videotape likewise
indicates they planned to take some action, he said.

Investigators believe the couple took steps to make their disappearance
look like suicide. Emery's credit card records show he bought 80 pounds of
weights, apparently to lead investigators to the conclusion that he used the
weights for a leap into the water, authorities said.

The couple's family has searched almost daily for the bodies and also hired
a Florida diving team.

Author: RAY FORMANEK JR.
Section: NEWS
Page: A4

Copyright 1993 The Seattle Times

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Paper: The Cincinnati Post
Title: Couple may have faked suicide - Convicted murderer, wife believed on run
Author: Associated Press
Date: December 14, 1993
Section: News
Page: 2A

Hours after he was convicted of murder, Adam Emery and his wife vanished in what
looked like a suicide leap into Narragansett Bay. State police, unconvinced
it was suicide, got a videotape of the trial and hired a lip reader to look at
it.

"We will do what we originally said," Elena Emery was purportedly seen
whispering to her husband immediately after the Nov. 10 verdict. "You promised
me. We should have done this before."

While relatives say they are convinced the couple's final resting place is
the dark, choppy waters that flow under the Claiborne Pell Bridge, investigators
believe the Emerys faked their deaths and are now on the run.

Emery, 31, was convicted of murder in the 1990 stabbing of 20-year-old
Jason Bass. Emery thought Bass had clipped the rear of his car, breaking a
taillight. Emery could have received 10 years to life in prison.

After the verdict, the Emerys' leased car was found on the bridge, the
parking lights on and the engine still warm. Their clothes were in the car along
with their credit cards and checks, which were cut into pieces.

Police divers searched for the bodies for six days. Detective Capt. Frank
Muzerall said the bodies should have washed ashore by now if they had been in
the bay.

Increasing investigators' suspicions, the Emerys were seen at a Burger King
just before their disappearance. Muzerall said it would be unusual for someone
to stop for fast food just before committing suicide. The videotape likewise
indicates they planned to take some action, he said.

Investigators believe the couple took elaborate steps to make their
disappearance look like suicide. Emery's credit card records show he bought two
black hooded sweatsuits and 80 pounds of weights, apparently to lead
investigators to the conclusion that he used the weights for a leap into the
water, authorities said.

Author: Associated Press
Section: News
Page: 2A

Copyright 1993 The Cincinnati Post

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Paper: Boston Herald (MA)
Title: Police doubt convicted killer took fatal plunge with wife
Author: JULES CRITTENDEN
Date: December 1, 1993
Section: NEWS
Page: 025

Adam and Elena Emery were "a modern day Romeo and Juliet" who jumped 225 feet
to their deaths in Narragansett Bay rather than face the shame of a murder
conviction, says Elena's brother. But Rhode Island police say the only thing
Adam Emery jumped is his bail - the $270,000 in three houses that will be
forfeited if he doesn't turn up soon. "We're actively pursuing the case as if
they fled," said State Police Maj. James Rowley. "We conducted the most
extensive search for a bridge jumper we've ever done."

The DiRocco and Emery families - with three houses tied up in Emery's bail -
have hired a sonar search team at $3,000 a day to find the bodies.

"They (police) don't have a shred of evidence that they are on the run," said
Domenic DiRocco, Elena's younger brother.

On Nov. 10, Adam was convicted of stabbing Jason Bass to death in a traffic
dispute. A lip-reader who studied courtroom film saw Elena whisper to Adam,
"We've got to promise we're going to do what we said before."

Hours later, their car was found on the Claiborne Pell Bridge. Police used
divers, sonar, grappling hooks and tidal charts in a three-day search for
bodies.

"They made only a token effort to find them," DiRocco said.

He said the two families have no trouble believing the couple jumped, but can't
believe they would run out on family who put up bail.

"These are two decent people," DiRocco said. "For the last three years they've
suffered. They've suffered greatly. They really loved each other. This is a
modern day Romeo and Juliet story.

"We're OK with what they did. We can't change anything."

The families want to find them, bury them, and then try to clear Adam's name.
"We can't even mourn now," DiRocco said

Author: JULES CRITTENDEN
Section: NEWS
Page: 025

Copyright (c) 1993 Boston Herald

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Paper: Boston Globe
Title: SEARCH FOR COUPLE CALLED OFF IN R.I.
Author: AP
Date: November 18, 1993
Section: METRO
Page: 61

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- Police have officially called off a water search for a
missing convicted murderer and his wife after nearly a week of combing the
waters of Narragansett Bay. But officials will continue land efforts to
determine whether Adam and Elena Emery faked a double suicide and escaped. The
Warwick couple disappeared last Wednesday, hours after Adam Emery was convicted
of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing a driver he wrongly believed had
struck his car.

Author: AP
Section: METRO
Page: 61

Copyright 1993, 1998 Globe Newspaper Company

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[Awsi Dooger]

Almost every article highlighted the Burger King aspect. What's wrong with Burger King? Maybe it's because I grew up in Miami the home of Burger King but I damn sure like it. It would hardly be my last choice of a final meal. Whoppers were better at 99 cents a few years ago but still pursuable and enjoyable today. Better than that chicken I had a few hours ago.

What, has a survey been done on the typical restaurant choice before suicide attempts? Let's say the Emerys had chosen Red Lobster or Applebees or some other generic chain. Somehow I doubt these articles would be flooded with the restaurant name. Burger King should sue.

We don't even know the area. This guy had just been convicted of murder. I imagine that's not a comforting feeling where you're looking to parade around in public or a fancy restaurant. Any couple goofy enough to chase the wrong car and rationalize a dual suicide may have believed Burger King was the secret to a successful afterlife.

[justins5256]

I like Burger King's most recent ad campaign. Wake up with...........the King.

Am I alone in thinking that the plastic faced King guy is creepy?

[DarkDante]

Wasn't that Karl Malden?

jk

[crystaldawn]

Originally Posted by justins5256

I like Burger King's most recent ad campaign. Wake up with...........the King.

Am I alone in thinking that the plastic faced King guy is creepy?

No you're not alone in that thinking.

[MetalHybrid]

Okay I guess I will be surprising no one with this post. I was struct by Adam's parents asking how they could convince people that Adam did not know that it was the wrong car. Well according to the photos, the Emery car was seriously damaged, so naturally the hit-and-run car would have similar damage, right? It would be better to ask how Adam did not know that Jason's car was the wrong car. And what was he doing with a knife? He claimed that he was only trying to get the plates, so what would he be doing trying to reach into the car while the driver is still inside and turn it off? If he was trying to save himself he should have just let go of the moving car and jumped off. And don't get me started on how he thinks he did nothing wrong by killing an innocent man,as his lack of remore speaks for itself. He is a killer, pure and simple.

I knew that their families were not much better either. Though the Emery's stayed silent, the DiRocco's turned my stomach with their antics. All this "nobody I know could be guilty, it has to be the other person's fault because I do not know them" mentality is just utter BS. How many killers and rapists have attractive charisma and are able to capture the appeal of those who know them? Tons.

It is so good that Elena was also added as a fugitve, since she egged Adam on to give chase and pull the knife. She is an accesory to murder. She's just as much a scumbag as Adam.


Oh yeah, as an off topic 2 cents the plastic-faced king guy rules

[Awsi Dooger]

Originally Posted by justins5256

I like Burger King's most recent ad campaign. Wake up with...........the King.

Am I alone in thinking that the plastic faced King guy is creepy?

The King is awesome because we're talking about him. In fact, I see polls and threads on all types of message boards asking about the King.

Adam Emery is fish food. In an old thread in this forum, I think I offered a lifetime of Whoppers to everyone here if he's discovered alive. That offer still stands. But no damn cheese. I despise hideous cheese. I'm not shelling out for cheese.

It's beyond pathetic the authorities were convinced the couple fled and did not commit suicide. Probability is not a strength, apparently in any profession or aspect of life. It must be great to be a conspiracy. You don't have to do anything and everyone believes in you.

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by crystaldawn

No you're not alone in that thinking.

Good to know. One of my co-workers left a picture of "The King" on my monitor some time ago. I nearly had a coronary.

[crystaldawn]

Originally Posted by justins5256

Good to know. One of my co-workers left a picture of "The King" on my monitor some time ago. I nearly had a coronary.

I would have paid to see that!

I was trying to search for some pictures of the BK guy and came across this website. It claims to be some sort of BK website about chicken. It is totally freaky - it appears to be some guy in a chicken costume in a living room. Type in commands below the picture and he will follow them! It is really creepy and will probably make the "BK" guy seem somewhat normal after viewing it. Pardon the off topic but I just couldn't resist sharing.

http://www.subservientchicken.com/

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Okay... I guess that puts me in the minority, then. I totally think Adam Emery is still alive. I think his wife killed herself because she felt responsible for the murder (which, watching the segment, she kinda was... she egged him on to chase the car and GAVE HIM A KNIFE when he got out of the car. What kind of professional executives carry a knife around with them?) Anyway. I don't think Adam Emery felt any sort of remorse for what he did... which tells me that he wouldn't have committed suicide.

Other things that make me think Emery is still alive: He haggled with the sports equipment guy over the price of the sweatsuits and weights. If you're going to kill yourself, you don't care what it costs. Also, he cut up all his credit cards... why? When you die, your debt dies with you. Some people additionally point to Burger King as an unlikely last meal... I'm on the fence with that one. Inmates who are about to be executed pick some pretty funky last meals. I wouldn't be surprised if someone ordered a Whopper. (And yes, the King is creepy. )

Given what we've been shown about Emery, I wouldn't be surprised if he told his wife he was going to jump with her and then pushed her in and fled.

Oh, and the Subserviant Chicken link is hilarious. Creepy, but funny.

[nohwheregirl]

Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

Okay... I guess that puts me in the minority, then. I totally think Adam Emery is still alive. I think his wife killed herself because she felt responsible for the murder (which, watching the segment, she kinda was... she egged him on to chase the car and GAVE HIM A KNIFE when he got out of the car. What kind of professional executives carry a knife around with them?) Anyway. I don't think Adam Emery felt any sort of remorse for what he did... which tells me that he wouldn't have committed suicide.

Not a chance. If that woman could be partially responsible for convincing her husband to murder someone, she can convince him to enter into a suicide pact.

Other things that make me think Emery is still alive: He haggled with the sports equipment guy over the price of the sweatsuits and weights. If you're going to kill yourself, you don't care what it costs.

If you're jerk enough to kill somebody, you're jerk enough to argue about the price of the sporting equipment you are going to STRAP ONTO YOUR BODY TO WEIGH IT DOWN IN THE WATER.

Also, he cut up all his credit cards... why? When you die, your debt dies with you.

Wrong. Your debt must be paid off by assets owned when the person was alive, and thus if you bequeath money/property to someone, they might inheret debt or their inheritance will decrease. I don't know what they were thinking, but maybe they didn't want somebody to steal their credit cards, which might make the authorities/families think they were still alive when they trace the credit card transactions.

[MetalHybrid]

Whatever became the of the real hit-and-run driver? It is truly an unsolved mystery. and while the show segment was about the Emery's you kind of have to wonder why they did not really emphasize the search for the person who set off the chain of events.

And just as a side note, Adam's parents are totally wrong about the possibilty of Adam being found innocent if he had knifed the real hit-and-run driver. Even if he'd found the real culprit and stabbed him/her, he'd still be guilty of murder and vigilantyism(sp), which is a form of mayhem.

[ZanzibarBlue]

Am I alone in the belief that there is a possibility that both Adam and Elena Emery are alive, despite the finding of the partial skull that was identified as hers solely by comparing it to her dental xrays?

The article indicated that the leg bone fished out of the Narragansett Bay near the Claiborne Pell Bridge in 1994, which contained fibre similar to the socks they purchased prior to their disappearance was NOT ADAM EMERY'S! Assuming it's not Elena's (which I would think they could rule her out quickly based on height), you would have to accept that someone else perished in the Bay wearing the same socks as they purchased.

I have always found it strange that the only remains retrieved after dragging the waters around the bridge were several assorted bones and a skull, purportedly Elena's. No weights, no clothes, no jewlery, etc., just misc. bones, one of which was proven not to be Adams. If they put on the athletic weights and socks prior to jumping, their bodies would have sunk to the bottom of the Bay very close to the bridge. Weighted down, I would think that the multiple divers and trawlers dredging that area afterward would have found their bodies quite easily and quickly, given the small search area. Another question that has dogged me is why a couple intent on suicide would take the trouble of putting weights on, presumably so their bodies would not be discovered, and then proceed to: (1) jump from one of the most recognizable and heavily travelled landmarks in the state; (2) leave their car idling on the bridge;and (3) mail suicide notes to family members? Isn't the purpose of putting the weights on to hide the remains so people don't know what happened?

Is it possible that they, or sympathetic friends/family members who believed Adam's conviction unjust, arranged for miscl. human remains to be dumped and later found? The leg bone found with threads from the sock similar to one purchased was not Adam's. If not Adam's or Elena's, doesn't that suggest that someone planted it? Finally, with respect to the skull found, it's lower jaw was missing. My understanding is that it was identified through dental records only, not DNA. If I was a dentist and had someone's dental x-rays, could I perform work (e.g., put fillings) on a skull and make it appear that it belonged to that individual? If the lower jaw was missing, wouldn't it make it that much easier to "doctor" the skull by taking it from a recently deceased woman of the same race and simlply "forge" the dental work? It certainly appeared from the articles that the victim's father was thinking along those lines and mentioned that the skull was found shortly before the bond collateral would be forfeited.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by MetalHybrid

Whatever became the of the real hit-and-run driver?

We will probably never know.

It is truly an unsolved mystery. and while the show segment was about the Emery's you kind of have to wonder why they did not really emphasize the search for the person who set off the chain of events.

Well, the hit-and-run driver merely bumped into Adam's car and took off without hurting anyone, so he or she was not as urgently wanted as someone who caused an injury or death. The driver may have set off the chain of events, but it almost goes without saying that Adam Emery made the selfish choice to go after the driver. Had it not been for Adam's selfishness, Jason Bass would still be alive.

[mikejones1]

I knew Adam. Not as well as his wife Elena, because I used to work with Adam daily.

They were old-school; nice to everyone, meticulous - her father still used a tractor to farm his tomatoes as he had done in Italy. It was a close knit family.

I tell EVERYONE this story when they talk about road rage and how in a few seconds such actions can destroy lives. Adam was a wonderful person who slipped up (as we all do) - it's a complete and utter shame that this occurred. I hope that everyone reads and passes this story on and to try and keep cool when driving or in the car - it's simply not worth it.

BE SAFE!