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Bleedingheart · 03-31-2006, 12:46 PM

A. Dramatis Personae.

Starting in 1983, Brooks worked as a baggage handler for Northwest Airlines at Logan International Airport. While there, he became friendly with a co-worker, Joseph Nuzzo.(1) Some four years later, Northwest broke the gender barrier and hired Susan Taraskiewicz as a baggage handler. With a few notable exceptions, Brooks and Taraskiewicz had little interaction. Early on, however, the pair twice indulged a sexual dalliance, and, on one subsequent occasion, they argued bitterly over Brooks's destruction of Taraskiewicz's radio.

In April of 1989, Taraskiewicz attempted to break up a fistfight between Nuzzo and two other employees. Displeased by her gratuitous intervention, Nuzzo called Taraskiewicz a "f_ _ _ _ _ g c_ _t." This incident capped a string of disciplinary infractions and led Northwest to fire Nuzzo. Nuzzo's discharge was not permanent -- it turned out to be the functional equivalent of a six month suspension without pay -- but Nuzzo vociferously blamed Taraskiewicz for his predicament. During his absence from work, he engaged in a campaign of menacing conduct directed at Taraskiewicz: he "keyed" her car, slashed her tires, staked out her house, made anonymous telephone calls, and told others that he would exact revenge. Brooks knew that Nuzzo blamed Taraskiewicz for his enforced vacation and that Nuzzo harbored considerable ill will toward her.

To read the rest of the court proceedings which reveal few possible clues that in my mind link the 2 above to her death go here http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/ju...-1111.01a.html

http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/ju...-1111.01a.html

LooksLikeCRicci · 04-03-2006, 10:56 AM

Nice find. Thanks.

The Su Taraskiewicz case always creeped me out, mainly because she went missing and no one bothered to look for her when she failed to return to work (She went to get the crew sandwiches and never came back.) To me, that screams of an inside job.

Kane · 04-03-2006, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

Nice find. Thanks.

The Su Taraskiewicz case always creeped me out, mainly because she went missing and no one bothered to look for her when she failed to return to work (She went to get the crew sandwiches and never came back.) To me, that screams of an inside job.

That's what I suspect. The details of the case have always given me the impression that Su's co-workers were involved in her murder (or at the very least, they know who was).

RightOnDude · 04-03-2006, 11:59 AM

I think Law and Order CI had a show that bore a great resemblance to this case...

Bleedingheart · 04-03-2006, 12:05 PM

This Robert Nuzzo seems to be the prime suspect in my book with all his threats against her it seems very likely he may have been responsible

Bleedingheart · 04-03-2006, 12:08 PM

It just surprises me given that they know of 2 possible suspects and neither have ben charged

Kane · 04-03-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Bleedingheart

It just surprises me given that they know of 2 possible suspects and neither have ben charged

Most likely, that's because there isn't enough evidence to arrest them. That's the only reason I can think of as to why no one was ever charged with Su's murder. I think that any evidence the cops might have against the suspects is so scant that arresting them for the crime at this point would be very risky, especially since we have double jeapordy laws.

Zlatko · 11-30-2009, 01:48 PM

I just had to bump this thread.

OK, here are some of my thoughts.

If Nuzzo was the one who killed Su, he must not be the brightest bulb. Everyone one would have suspected him from day one. It doesn't seem like he was the only one responsible.

It's very strange that none of Su's coworkers were concerned when she disappeared. It's been said that Su was a punctual person. This gives me the impression, as others believe, that her death was an inside job.

I don't understand why Su didn't tell her mother about the harassment. Perhaps she was afraid her mother might get harassed as well but still. Also, Su should have informed the police that Nuzzo was a dangerous man if he had harassed her like that. It sounds to me like Su tried to keep the whole ordeal under wraps.

Bleedingheart · 12-01-2009, 11:40 AM

Here is a little more Apparrently Su took a call shortly before she left by someone she trusted wanting to meet her somewhere.... It is 2 pages

http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...illing/?page=1

Apostapler · 12-01-2009, 05:10 PM

Wow, I didn't know they punched her time card and then checked her out at the end of the shift as if she was there! How could it NOT be an inside job? That is shady beyond belief.

youngUMfan · 12-01-2009, 05:33 PM

I agree with you Apostapler. But the fact that no one has been arrested seems to suggest that they had a pretty good alibi for doing that.

Mastermind · 12-01-2009, 07:25 PM

I believe this is a lot more than an inside job.

Considering it involved credit cards, airport and a very well executed murder...it screams of an organized crime operation.

Three or Five n baggage handlers couldn't carry off their credit card scam by themselves. They had to have some outside assistance from local mob.

Bleedingheart · 12-01-2009, 10:15 PM

Here is yet another article i found on the case it claims that the people arrested and convicted in the credit card scam well they were part of the mob

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...84/detail.html

Mysteryphile · 12-02-2009, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bleedingheart

This Robert Nuzzo seems to be the prime suspect in my book with all his threats against her it seems very likely he may have been responsible

Okay this sounds probable BUT what if there was someone ELSE that wanted to do her in---ex boyfriend etc... then Nuzzo if the perfect fall guy cause he acted so mean and nasty towards her.

kadrmas15 · 12-02-2009, 04:00 PM

Hmm, I have thought about this case off and on for a while. There is more than one possibility here as to what went down. Interesting theory mysteryphile. While a bit far fetched it is not entirely out of the question that someone else killed Su and knew beforehand about her troubles with Nuzzo and figured that he could kill Su and then use Nuzzo as the fall guy thinking that because of the troubles that Su and Nuzzo had had, that everyone would think Nuzzo did it, not him (an ex boyfriend or a jealous acquaintance or whatever the case may be).

This has happened in other cases where someone wanted to kill someone but waited until the right opportunity came along (like that the person they wanted to kill would get into personal trouble with someone else, than the person could kill the person they wanted to kill and everyone would think it was the person that had been having problems with the dead person and not actually the killer).

Think of the Mark Winger case for instance. He had been wanting to kill his wife for several months, maybe a year or more but he did not know how to go about it. He knew he could not just kill her because he would be the obvious suspect then. So he waited and then a few weeks before the murder, his golden opportunity came. His wife and daughter were taking a van service from the St. Louis airport back to their Springfield, Illinois home after taking a trip to Florida. Well, the van driver Roger Harrington, a young man with a history of mental illness and who had been committed to a mental hospital on at least two occasions was acting very erratically on the trip and was just acting very strange. This made Mrs. Winger very uncomfortable. She told her husband and they filed a complaint and got Harrington suspended and ultimately fired from his job.

It was the golden opportunity for Mark Winger. He was going to kill his wife and he was going to kill Roger Harrington too but he was going to make Harrington the fall guy. Winger was going to lure Harrington over to his house, kill his wife before Harrington got there and then when Harrington arrived he was going to shoot him and claim he shot him in self defense because Harrington was killing Winger's wife.

Winger actually got away with this crime for several years and was actually hailed a community hero in Springfield. It appears the cops had tunnel vision and just seemed all too eager to write it off as the weird, mentally ill guy killed the all American woman as revenge for getting fired from his job. Winger collected on his wife's life insurance so he ended up getting paid a couple hundred grand from that. He re-married and had a couple more kids.

Where Winger's story started to crumble was 3 or 4 years after the murder. His deceased wife's best friend had severe depression since the wife's death. So much so she was actually committed to a mental hospital a couple of times and given electric shock treatments for severe depression. Eventually she broke down and admitted that yes while she was depressed over her friends death what made the depression a lot worse was she felt she had protected the killer. She then came up with a bombshell. That at the time of the murders and for a year or so prior to them, she and Mark Winger had been conducting an affair. She said that Mark Winger on several occasions talked about how he was unhappy in the marriage to his wife and wanted to get out of the marriage without having to go through a divorce because it would be too costly and he did not want to have to pay child support. She even said that Mark Winger had talked about killing his wife before but that she just thought he was blowing off steam and did not take him too serious until the murders happened. It seems this woman thought Winger would marry her but he ended up having another affair with his daughter's nanny and ended up marrying the nanny.

Anyway, when the cops questioned Winger about this he admitted the affair but denied everything else and said the woman was off her rocker. A couple more years went by, but the cops began investigating this case and finding several holes in Winger's story. The bodies were not in the positions they should have been had Winger's story been true. Roger Harrington when he came to the house had brought in a coffee mug and a pack of cigarettes, weird for a guy that was allegedly so bent up with rage that he was planning on killing Mrs. Winger. They also found directions to the Winger home in Harrington's car. Hand written directions in Harrington's handwriting, so it was obvious he did not know where the Winger's lived and had not been to their residence before. The murder weapon of Mrs. Winger was a hammer that was from the Winger home. Odd that Harrington would not bring his own murder weapon to kill Mrs. Winger.

The cops ended up checking Mark Winger's work phone records. They had originally checked out the Winger home's phone records but had never checked Winger's work phone records. They found the day before the murders Winger had called Roger Harrington's home from his office at the Illinois Department of Energy. It appears the last straw in this was when Winger filed a wrongful death civil suit against the company that employed Roger Harrington. Winger was arrested in 2001 and charged with two counts of first degree murder. In 2003 he was convicted at trial and sentenced to two life terms with no possibility of parole. He was convicted a few years later of conspiracy to commit first degree murder for trying to organize the murder of a key prosecution witness from behind the prison walls. He was given an additional 30 years for that crime.

Sorry for the longwinded synopsis of an unrelated case. Just wanted to show you mysteryphile that while your theory is a bit far fetched it certainly is not impossible.

03-31-2006, 12:46 PM	#1
Bleedingheart Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 110	Here is a bit from the credit card case that may lead to Susan Taraskiewicz murder A. Dramatis Personae. Starting in 1983, Brooks worked as a baggage handler for Northwest Airlines at Logan International Airport. While there, he became friendly with a co-worker, Joseph Nuzzo.(1) Some four years later, Northwest broke the gender barrier and hired Susan Taraskiewicz as a baggage handler. With a few notable exceptions, Brooks and Taraskiewicz had little interaction. Early on, however, the pair twice indulged a sexual dalliance, and, on one subsequent occasion, they argued bitterly over Brooks's destruction of Taraskiewicz's radio. In April of 1989, Taraskiewicz attempted to break up a fistfight between Nuzzo and two other employees. Displeased by her gratuitous intervention, Nuzzo called Taraskiewicz a "f_ _ _ _ _ g c_ _t." This incident capped a string of disciplinary infractions and led Northwest to fire Nuzzo. Nuzzo's discharge was not permanent -- it turned out to be the functional equivalent of a six month suspension without pay -- but Nuzzo vociferously blamed Taraskiewicz for his predicament. During his absence from work, he engaged in a campaign of menacing conduct directed at Taraskiewicz: he "keyed" her car, slashed her tires, staked out her house, made anonymous telephone calls, and told others that he would exact revenge. Brooks knew that Nuzzo blamed Taraskiewicz for his enforced vacation and that Nuzzo harbored considerable ill will toward her. To read the rest of the court proceedings which reveal few possible clues that in my mind link the 2 above to her death go here http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/ju...-1111.01a.html http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/ju...-1111.01a.html

12-01-2009, 11:40 AM	#9
Bleedingheart Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 110	Here is a little more Apparrently Su took a call shortly before she left by someone she trusted wanting to meet her somewhere.... It is 2 pages http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...illing/?page=1
	Last edited by Bleedingheart; 12-01-2009 at 05:48 PM.

04-03-2006, 10:56 AM	#2
LooksLikeCRicci Likes to live in a clean house Moderator Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 27, 2005 Posts: 4,050	Nice find. Thanks. The Su Taraskiewicz case always creeped me out, mainly because she went missing and no one bothered to look for her when she failed to return to work (She went to get the crew sandwiches and never came back.) To me, that screams of an inside job.

04-03-2006, 11:59 AM	#4
RightOnDude Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 266	I think Law and Order CI had a show that bore a great resemblance to this case...

04-03-2006, 12:05 PM	#5
Bleedingheart Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 110	This Robert Nuzzo seems to be the prime suspect in my book with all his threats against her it seems very likely he may have been responsible

04-03-2006, 12:08 PM	#6
Bleedingheart Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 110	It just surprises me given that they know of 2 possible suspects and neither have ben charged

11-30-2009, 01:48 PM	#8
Zlatko Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Aug 04, 2008 Location: Nowhereland Posts: 367	I just had to bump this thread. OK, here are some of my thoughts. If Nuzzo was the one who killed Su, he must not be the brightest bulb. Everyone one would have suspected him from day one. It doesn't seem like he was the only one responsible. It's very strange that none of Su's coworkers were concerned when she disappeared. It's been said that Su was a punctual person. This gives me the impression, as others believe, that her death was an inside job. I don't understand why Su didn't tell her mother about the harassment. Perhaps she was afraid her mother might get harassed as well but still. Also, Su should have informed the police that Nuzzo was a dangerous man if he had harassed her like that. It sounds to me like Su tried to keep the whole ordeal under wraps.

12-01-2009, 05:10 PM	#10
Apostapler Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 06, 2009 Location: Indiana Posts: 872	Wow, I didn't know they punched her time card and then checked her out at the end of the shift as if she was there! How could it NOT be an inside job? That is shady beyond belief.

12-01-2009, 05:33 PM	#11
youngUMfan Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 12, 2009 Posts: 81	I agree with you Apostapler. But the fact that no one has been arrested seems to suggest that they had a pretty good alibi for doing that.

12-01-2009, 07:25 PM	#12
Mastermind Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 16, 2008 Posts: 1,843	I believe this is a lot more than an inside job. Considering it involved credit cards, airport and a very well executed murder...it screams of an organized crime operation. Three or Five n baggage handlers couldn't carry off their credit card scam by themselves. They had to have some outside assistance from local mob.

12-01-2009, 10:15 PM	#13
Bleedingheart Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 110	Here is yet another article i found on the case it claims that the people arrested and convicted in the credit card scam well they were part of the mob http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...84/detail.html

12-02-2009, 04:00 PM	#15
kadrmas15 Retired from Board 03/03/11 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,910	Hmm, I have thought about this case off and on for a while. There is more than one possibility here as to what went down. Interesting theory mysteryphile. While a bit far fetched it is not entirely out of the question that someone else killed Su and knew beforehand about her troubles with Nuzzo and figured that he could kill Su and then use Nuzzo as the fall guy thinking that because of the troubles that Su and Nuzzo had had, that everyone would think Nuzzo did it, not him (an ex boyfriend or a jealous acquaintance or whatever the case may be). This has happened in other cases where someone wanted to kill someone but waited until the right opportunity came along (like that the person they wanted to kill would get into personal trouble with someone else, than the person could kill the person they wanted to kill and everyone would think it was the person that had been having problems with the dead person and not actually the killer). Think of the Mark Winger case for instance. He had been wanting to kill his wife for several months, maybe a year or more but he did not know how to go about it. He knew he could not just kill her because he would be the obvious suspect then. So he waited and then a few weeks before the murder, his golden opportunity came. His wife and daughter were taking a van service from the St. Louis airport back to their Springfield, Illinois home after taking a trip to Florida. Well, the van driver Roger Harrington, a young man with a history of mental illness and who had been committed to a mental hospital on at least two occasions was acting very erratically on the trip and was just acting very strange. This made Mrs. Winger very uncomfortable. She told her husband and they filed a complaint and got Harrington suspended and ultimately fired from his job. It was the golden opportunity for Mark Winger. He was going to kill his wife and he was going to kill Roger Harrington too but he was going to make Harrington the fall guy. Winger was going to lure Harrington over to his house, kill his wife before Harrington got there and then when Harrington arrived he was going to shoot him and claim he shot him in self defense because Harrington was killing Winger's wife. Winger actually got away with this crime for several years and was actually hailed a community hero in Springfield. It appears the cops had tunnel vision and just seemed all too eager to write it off as the weird, mentally ill guy killed the all American woman as revenge for getting fired from his job. Winger collected on his wife's life insurance so he ended up getting paid a couple hundred grand from that. He re-married and had a couple more kids. Where Winger's story started to crumble was 3 or 4 years after the murder. His deceased wife's best friend had severe depression since the wife's death. So much so she was actually committed to a mental hospital a couple of times and given electric shock treatments for severe depression. Eventually she broke down and admitted that yes while she was depressed over her friends death what made the depression a lot worse was she felt she had protected the killer. She then came up with a bombshell. That at the time of the murders and for a year or so prior to them, she and Mark Winger had been conducting an affair. She said that Mark Winger on several occasions talked about how he was unhappy in the marriage to his wife and wanted to get out of the marriage without having to go through a divorce because it would be too costly and he did not want to have to pay child support. She even said that Mark Winger had talked about killing his wife before but that she just thought he was blowing off steam and did not take him too serious until the murders happened. It seems this woman thought Winger would marry her but he ended up having another affair with his daughter's nanny and ended up marrying the nanny. Anyway, when the cops questioned Winger about this he admitted the affair but denied everything else and said the woman was off her rocker. A couple more years went by, but the cops began investigating this case and finding several holes in Winger's story. The bodies were not in the positions they should have been had Winger's story been true. Roger Harrington when he came to the house had brought in a coffee mug and a pack of cigarettes, weird for a guy that was allegedly so bent up with rage that he was planning on killing Mrs. Winger. They also found directions to the Winger home in Harrington's car. Hand written directions in Harrington's handwriting, so it was obvious he did not know where the Winger's lived and had not been to their residence before. The murder weapon of Mrs. Winger was a hammer that was from the Winger home. Odd that Harrington would not bring his own murder weapon to kill Mrs. Winger. The cops ended up checking Mark Winger's work phone records. They had originally checked out the Winger home's phone records but had never checked Winger's work phone records. They found the day before the murders Winger had called Roger Harrington's home from his office at the Illinois Department of Energy. It appears the last straw in this was when Winger filed a wrongful death civil suit against the company that employed Roger Harrington. Winger was arrested in 2001 and charged with two counts of first degree murder. In 2003 he was convicted at trial and sentenced to two life terms with no possibility of parole. He was convicted a few years later of conspiracy to commit first degree murder for trying to organize the murder of a key prosecution witness from behind the prison walls. He was given an additional 30 years for that crime. Sorry for the longwinded synopsis of an unrelated case. Just wanted to show you mysteryphile that while your theory is a bit far fetched it certainly is not impossible.