November 13, 1997 Episode Info needed.

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Greetings,

I believe I finally found the segment I've been looking for via the episode guide. Perhaps some of you can help me identify specific names and maybe even be able to sell me a copy of the said episode.

One of the segments in the episode, just for reference, is in reguards to the circumstances surrounding Elvis Presley's death. However, the segment I'm interested in comes after that portion of the program.

Basically, what happens in this segment is that the police recieve a strange phone call saying that a man's wife's remains are located in the family's backyard. The cops investigate, only to conclude that it was a crank call by a nosy neighbor or something. Anyway, they then recieve a second call from the same person telling them that they didn't look closely enough. So the cops return to the house with dogs or something and find the bone fragments of over 40 victims (including the man's wife) underneith some scrap in the backyard. The victims' bodies had been run through a wood chipper or similar device and so the anthropology department from the local university was called out for a formal crime scene dig. Last I heard, there were no updates, the case remained unsolved and I've been unable to locate any info on the subject.

I can't remember the names of the individuals invovled, where they were located or anything. If anyone could provide me any info on this case including the segment itself PLEASE contact me at coyoteglore@comcast.net or post here. At very least if anyone has the involved university's name I can contact them for their records for college research purposes.

Thanks!

-The Mad Dr. Shock

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This case has been discussed previously on these boards. The wifes name was Moneka Rizzo. Here is an article someone posted on her husband.


Rizzo shot during standoff with cops

By Adolfo Pesquera
Express-News Staff Writer



A violent Friday night brawl between Leonard Rizzo and his girlfriend resumed Saturday morning, ending in an armed confrontation with police that left Rizzo critically wounded.

According to police and witnesses, Rizzo , 47, husband of Monika Rizzo , now missing for two years, taunted police for four hours while he held a small caliber handgun to his head, loudly threatening suicide as he sipped a diet RC Cola on the porch of a trailer home in the 5400 block of Copperhead Trail on the Southeast Side.

At 11:05 a.m. Saturday, a Special Weapons and Tactics officer fired a single shot when Rizzo pointed his gun at the officer.

Rizzo was in critical condition Saturday at Brooke Army Medical Center with a bullet injury to the lower abdomen. He was to be charged by proxy for aggravated assault on a public servant.

Looking scraggly and, according to one neighbor, as if he hadn't slept in three days, Rizzo was arrested at 6:23 p.m.

Friday after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at the trailer. He was freed about six hours later and returned to the trailer after a friend posted his $3,500 bond for a charge of assault with bodily injury.

"He tried to kill me," cried a distraught woman with short blonde hair, wearing blue jeans, a black T- shirt and identified by a friend as 'Cycle Sue.'

"He stabbed me all over the body. He beat me with a hammer."

She made the statements to reporters and a dozen neighbors at the scene after Rizzo was shot.

Bill McKinney, father of Rizzo 's missing wife, found himself in the odd position of hoping the man he has held responsible for his daughter's disappearance would come through this latest crisis alive.

After receiving a phone call from a neighbor, McKinney put down his coffee and flew out the door as his wife was heading for the shower, he said.

"I don't want anything to happen to Mr. Rizzo this morning. Ending it here does not end our grief. He's the answer man and someday he's going to get our questions answered," McKinney said.

McKinney stood vigil along with residents of Copperhead Trail, who were rousted from their homes by police securing the area around Rizzo .

The standoff began after Rizzo returned to the trailer and a second fight flared up between the couple. The girlfriend walked to a convenience store several blocks away and called police to escort her back into the trailer to retrieve her belongings, said Randy Lee Grissom, an acquaintance of Rizzo .

According to police dispatch records, the woman said her "boyfriend beat her up yesterday, he's back and threatening to kill her."

An officer arrived at the convenience store at 7:15 a.m. and escorted her to the trailer home. Police said Rizzo came to the porch with a gun and the officer retreated with the woman.

Greg Lambert, who lives next door to the trailer Rizzo moved into less than two weeks ago, said he watched the standoff through his window for about 30 minutes before police moved him out.

"He was standing on the front porch, drinking a diet RC Cola, with a derringer pointed to his head. He was yelling at them, saying, 'What do you want?' laughing at the cops," Lambert said.

Police Department spokesman Al Ballew said crisis negotiators had just gotten a phone delivered to Rizzo , "so that they wouldn't have to yell back and forth," when Rizzo ran into the back yard.

"The suspect fired one shot and immediately ran to the back chain link fence and pointed the weapon at a SWAT officer, who, in fear of his life, fired one shot," Ballew said.

Paramedics standing by immediately were brought to the yard to administer aid to Rizzo.

Ballew said Rizzo was to be charged with aggravated assault of a public servant (police officer).

Rizzo moved to Copperhead Trail only after police forcibly evicted him May 19 from his home in the 4400 block of Forest Green Street.

In the summer of 1997, Rizzo 's home was the scene of a sensational search for human bones.

At one point police claimed the bone fragments belonged to as many as four people, but the county's chief medical examiner since has said there's no proof there was material from more than one person.

Police say they believe the remains are from Monika Rizzo ; however, they don't have enough evidence to assert she was murdered or even dead.

Police acknowledge her husband has been a suspect, but Rizzo always has insisted his wife still is alive.

The day he was evicted, Rizzo was arrested for failure to pay a fine on a misdemeanor conviction resulting from a zoning violation; he had let the grass on his lawn grow too high.

Police were set to release Rizzo when two plastic bags fell from his pants leg. Police allege tests determined that one bag was found to contain methamphetamine, and a drug possession charge was tacked on.



Sunday, May 30, 1999

[thE_mAd_Dr_shOck]

Thanks very much for that info. I'll do some more searches on the site but I guess that article pretty much answers everything.

Thanks a lot.

-The Mad Dr. Shock