Old more detailed article about Michael Rosenblum

[crystaldawn]

Someone from the board was nice enough to share with us something she came across in a Pittsburgh magazine from 1988. A detailed article about the disappearance of Michael Rosenblum that gives a lot more info than was in the UM segment. Its a large file so bear with me as I'll have to post it in separate links to get it all on here. Here is the cover page and article divided into 4 parts. Enjoy!

[MissFit29]

Well, I was on the fence before, but now I'm convinced the Baldwin police were involved.

[soilentgreen]

Great article with a lot of information, including a cop falsely impersonating another officer in an attempt to dissuade a UM producer from featuring the case.

I've never believed that Chester Lombardi had anything to do with Rosenblum's disappearance, but the discussion about the two officers (Cooley and Miscencik) and their being in the vicinity of the car is interesting to say the least. Also not surprising that the powers that be were all for Gaburri being reinstated, since he was voiding tickets for prominent people.

When did someone from the Baldwin PD gain access to the photo of Michael that was in the girlfriend's car, when they claimed they weren't even aware that the car was at the impound lot at that time (discussed on page 47, with the photo of Michael and Maurice)? The forged letter was part of a coverup, but whether it was to hide Baldwin PD's general ineptitude or something worse isn't certain.

[RobinW]

Yeah, I always thought the Baldwin PD went to all that trouble to hide their ineptitude rather than because they were involved in Michael's disappearance, but some of the information in this article makes me lean the other way.

I am really suspicious about those two patrolman, Cooley and Miscencik, who were on their way to serve a warrant on the day of Michael's disappearance and would have been driving on River Road about half an hour before Lisa's car was found. They never report seeing the car, supposedly never show up to serve this warrant, and there's a nearly three-hour window where their whereabouts are unaccounted for.

That story about the cop impersonating someone else on the phone with the UM producer is also pretty suspicious. If the Baldwin PD was completely innocent in this whole affair, it always seemed ridiculous to me that they would flat-out refuse to cooperate with UM. This wasn't one of those stories where the victim died under suspicious circumstances, but the cops ruled it as a suicide and officially closed the case. Michael's remains hadn't been found yet, so he was still a missing person at the time the story was produced. It was NOT a closed case, so I don't see why they'd try to hamper any attempts to find Michael unless they had something more to hide than plain incompetence.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by RobinW

I am really suspicious about those two patrolman, Cooley and Miscencik, who were on their way to serve a warrant on the day of Michael's disappearance and would have been driving on River Road about half an hour before Lisa's car was found. They never report seeing the car, supposedly never show up to serve this warrant, and there's a nearly three-hour window where their whereabouts are unaccounted for.

Indeed. And it's mentioned that River Road was the only way for those officers to get to their destination of serving that warrant. That looks really bad.

[soilentgreen]

Someone has put up a number of articles relating to the case here: http://coldcaseshardcopy.blogspot.co...rosenblum.html Cooley and Miscencik apparently filed a libel suit against Pittsburgh Magazine, the writer of the article, and other defendants that was later settled: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2469klu&s=7

The backdated letter made things look more suspicious than they possibly were. Since there was no conclusive determination of a cause of death, the case was and remains at a standstill.