Below are the texts of a November 17 email to Captain Richard Conklin, supervisor of the Stamford Police Department Bureau of Criminal Investigations, and a November 17 fax to Detective Chester Perkowski of the Darien Police Department.
Dear Captain Conklin:
I am following up on my recent fax to Chief Larrabee, to which I have received no response. (In case you did not see the fax, the text is now reproduced at my blog, http://muchnick.net/babylon.)
Please let me know if you can fill in these blanks. And I have one additional question: At the 12-to-13-minute mark of Detective Dolan’s interrogation of Matthew Greenberg, the young man’s father interjects, “You know, I was thinking that, because he’s from Stamford, there might have been a concern that he had some connection to WWE.” The detective replies, “Well, I’m sure there was some of that. That’s what I thought originally. And then I talked to the, uh …” Detective Dolan gets interrupted and never completes the thought.
Can you point me to the information — not evident in the existing record — that so satisfied Stamford PD that Greenberg had no direct or indirect association with World Wrestling Entertainment that he was not even asked about it in the interview? To whom did Detective Dolan talk, and how did these people persuade him that a WWE connection was a non-starter? (By contrast, the detective did clearly establish Greenberg’s “alibi” for not being near the scene of the murder-suicide, which seemed to me quite a bit less risible.)
Thanks,
Irv Muchnick
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Dear Detective Perkowski:
I am following up on my voice message of last week. You will recall that, a few months ago, we briefly discussed on the phone your 7/26/07 report on the forensic exam of Matthew Greenberg’s computer, which you conducted for Stamford PD.
Having now reviewed the videotape of Stamford’s interrogation of young Greenberg, I have a follow-up question. Your report states that your charge from Detective Dolan was to search for “information related to the murder of WWE wrestler Chris Benoit and his family.” Did that information include the Internet history of the browsing of online rumors speculating as to why Benoit did not appear at the 6/24/07 wrestling event in Houston? Since Greenberg said in his interview with Stamford PD that he had visited wrestling news and fan sites prior to his controversial Wikipedia post — and since the Stamford detective expressed confidence that the computer exam would be able to identify them — your one-line conclusion seems to me incomplete. Can you report authoritatively that the Greenberg computer showed NO evidence of visits to wrestling websites on 6/24/07?
Thanks,
Irv Muchnick