Memorial day weekend, 2016 Lt Russo, NYPD, follows Chanel Lewis for a while because he doesn't feel that a person like Mr Lewis should walk around an upscale neighborhood like Howard Beach. The lieutenant calls some more police. They force Chanel Lewis into a car and dump him in another part of the city they feel is more appropriate for him. Chanel Lewis is a severely developmentally disabled black man with no history of violence, aside from what police would later fabricate.
~~Michigan~~July 30, 2016 Alexandria 'Ally' Brueger is murdered while jogging in Rose Township Michigan, several hundred miles away.
August 2, 2016 Chanel Lewis decides to return to the area to walk around. As he enters the park he sees a girl running and notices she is using a cellphone. He is certain he is about to get jumped by police if she completes the call so he knocks the phone out of her hand and hits her. She scratches him in the face and he eventually kills her.
Important to note, usually it is women who complain about an unfamiliar person in the neighborhood. Russo's last story version was that he had seen Chanel Lewis and decided to follow him, but that is probably not true. More likely a woman he knew called him, a neighbor, and he may have said something to Mr Lewis like "You are scaring a woman in this neighborhood so we are going to take you to a different neighborhood. The detail about Russo having his kids in the car is unlikely.
At any rate Mr Lewis did have good reason to believe that a local woman had called police to complain about his presence, and that was why he was attacked the first time.
August 3, 2016 The lieutenant and the police officers involved immediately suspect the mentally ill person they had attacked a few months before. Video images confirm their suspicion. They decide not to make an arrest until they can present the case in a way that will minimize the actions of Lieutenant Russo and the other cops, and convince the public that there was some other motive. Eventually they start telling the media that it was a sexual assault even though they know it wasn't.
~~Massachusetts~~August 7, 2016 Vanessa Marcotte is murdered while jogging in Princeton Massachusetts. The NYPD now has more time to find a fix since a lot of news sites are being led to believe there is a serial killer.
February 2017 The FBI has been helping promote the 'serial killer' theory to buy time for the NYPD, but because they had DNA from Marcotte's killer and Vetrano's killer they knew it was not a serial killer, and they eventually had to let that case be solved which eliminated the 'serial killer hypothesis'.
On February 4th Chanel Lewis was arrested, and on February 23, 2017, more than six months after the murder, the Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr told the public about the DNA from Marcotte's killer. Police psychologists carefully prepped Chanel Lewis so that there would be no association between the NYPD attack on Lewis and the murder of Vetrano in the 'confession'. It still took the police several takes, at least two, to get a publicizable confession.
The specific NYPD psychologists involved may be from the same NYPD unit that arranged the confession of Malthe Thomsen, a case NYPD lawyers are suppressing in the United States so it won't start a legal avalanche of exposed false confessions for police.
One problem for the NYPD is that NY State is one of only a few states that has a 'proximate theory of murder', and the NYPD has used that to prosecute people for murder when there was a much weaker causative association than exists in this case. Aside from Russo and several other officers facing possible murder charges under the same 'proximate theory' that the NYPD uses against non cops, there is also concern that the FBI agents could be charged for assisting the NYPD in their coverup.
The 'proximate theory' has been used a number of times by the NYPD to charge somebody else when one NYPD officer accidentally shoots another.
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/court-of-appeals/1993/82-n-y-2d-309-0.html
So far police have refused to use such charges against police officers whose misconduct leads to a killing by a non police officer.
In this case the misconduct by the NYPD officers at the Memorial Day stop clearly is at the felony level.
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Police told a lot of lies to the victim's family after Karina Vetrano's murder
What this page looks at is whether a separate group of FBI agents sabotaged a separate investigation in Michigan, in order to encourage the public perception that a serial killer was loose, so that the NYPD would be able to postpone the Chanel Lewis arrest until they had a fix for the case's 'NYPD Memorial Day stop' problem.
It is not known whether the FBI sabotaged the Ally Brueger case. That is only a hypothesis because of their other actions in the other two cases. It is possible that they did, but it is also possible they did not.
The main purpose of this page is just to show how 'true crime' websites and most mainstream media prevent discussion of police corruption.
A secondary purpose is to encourage fairness for Chanel Lewis by pointing out what the NYPD and FBI did.
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Many police agencies in the United States have 'confession' problems
Some of the problems involve outright false confessions, like the Malthe Thomsen case.
Never heard about the case? You must live in the United States.
That's because even though there is a popular documentary that gives details, that documentary has been hidden from U.S. viewers through clever legal action by NYPD and U.S. government attorneys. You will not find details of his confession easily on a U.S. website and Google limits visibility of overseas websites which discuss the case. Try to watch it in the United States and see what happens.
https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7830
https://www.amazon.com/False-Confessions-Katrine-Philp/dp/B087MZZ88N
Google "Malthe Thomsen confession" in the United States, and gather all the facts you can, then ask somebody in another country to watch the Journeyman video, and you will see what Google, the NYPD and the U.S. government do not want you to know.
Now multiply that by hundreds of cases.
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Another type of confession problem involves managed or 'staged' confessions by people who are guilty, but whose crimes involve parallel crimes by police officers.
For example a group of police officers who abuse a mentally ill man, causing him to flashback later and kill an innocent person.
The mentally ill person goes to prison for life in the U.S., but only if the police can hide the fact that they caused the murder by a person who had no history of violence.
Worse yet when police have to fabricate a rape to cover their misconduct.
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Police knew immediately, after finding the body, that the murder of Karina Vetrano did not have a sexual motive.
But they also knew they had to hide the real motive or police might start facing accountability when they abuse certain types of vulnerable individuals.
There are a lot of problems with Chanel Lewis's two confessions, but one of those problems will create bigger problems for the NYPD if it is discussed publicly
https://youtu.be/6AWm4kGe8e8?t=1629
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"That was Russo’s account in Queens criminal court last week in proceedings to determine what evidence will be admissible during Lewis’ coming murder trial. Police sources had previously given reporters a slightly different story, in which Russo’s tip this year led murder investigators to find a 911 call from the following day in which the caller named the man as Chanel Lewis and said he had a crowbar and looked like he might be about to break into a property with it"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-confessed-to-karina-vetranos-murder-but-did-he-do-it
Police needed to do a lot of lying after Karina Vetrano was killed so that the public would not blame the officers who had inadvertently provoked the murder.
Police sources said that Lewis confessed to the crime and that there was no motive other than he was "unhinged" and apparently upset there were so many people in the apartment where he lived with his parents.
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Below are copies of some posts removed by moderators on Websleuths.
This was posted on a Sunday morning because that is when they are slowest to delete posts. Often a post on Sunday isn't deleted by moderators until Monday, but one of the people on the thread has a father in law who is an FBI agent and that person or somebody else may have reported the posts. Dozens of people on Websleuths scour new posts to weed out comments critical of police/FBI.
Websleuths generally stifles discussion of police corruption unless several people start a rapid discussion on the subject. There is overwhelming evidence that the NYPD knew about Chanel Lewis almost immediately. The post is trying to see if the FBI sabotaged the Ally Brueger investigation too in order to keep the public thinking that there may be a serial killer. The NYPD needed the 'serial killer' theory to continue long enough that they would be able to hide the fact that it was NYPD officers who directly caused the aggression that killed Karina Vetrano. That's the simple truth.
There is no doubt that the NYPD held back on arresting Chanel Lewis until they could find a way to improve the optics of their misconduct.
There were lots of cameras between the murder place that would have showed a black guy in a hoody walking from across the street from a police station to the murder site and back, including on the Beltway he had to cross to enter the park from the north. Notice this clever deception the NYPD used to cover themselves.
Whether the FBI also assisted the NYPD by sabotaging the Ally Brueger investigation in Michigan is what was being researched. The NYPD needed people to believe that a serial killer might be responsible for several murders in different states.
Note that there are hundreds of articles saying a serial killer was suspected in those three murders, but Google sends a person to fringe overseas sites if they try to research it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Serial+Killer+Three+Female+Joggers+vetrano+marcotte+brueger
Why would Google be hiding a particular avenue of research? Because there are indications that 'somebody' had been using journalists to promote the serial killer theory, and now Google is providing cover for that entity which is probably a U.S. police agency. Notice all of the U.S. results except 'National Enquirer" are buried by Google. 'BlastingNews' is a UK site.
https://www.marieclaire.com.au/serial-killer-fears-after-three-female-joggers-killed-in-us
https://sandrarose.com/2016/08/someone-is-killing-joggers-in-ny-massachusetts-and-michigan/
Here is a two part series by Chris Hansen.
Part 1 Chris Hansen says "Police believe they may be looking for a serial killer" and the police chief says "He is traveling around and doing different places" and the mother of Ally Brueger says "Ally's murder was the first one".
https://youtu.be/KQeciTUuYSA?t=285
https://youtu.be/0mEaVyCOQ98?t=57
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Here is a TLDR summary from one of the posts. This is what the evidence points to, something very different than the police/FBI version.
A sequential timeline.
Event 1
Police deal with a black person in Howard Beach i.e., Chanel Lewis, in an improper way which could be expected to create *hostility* in that person.
8 weeks or so pass
Event 2
Several weeks later, unrelated to event 1, Ally Brueger is murdered.
A few days pass
Event 3
Days after event 2 Karina Vetrano is murdered by the black person in Event 1 above. The killer is identified almost immediately but the NYPD hesitates to make an arrest for obvious reasons.
A few days pass
Event 4
Days after Event 2 and 3 Vanessa Marcotte is murdered.
Less than a day passes
Event 5
News sites start associating the three murders, and the mother of Ally Brueger says on a tv show that 'it is a serial killer driving around'. The implication being that law enforcement employees told her that, and led her to believe the FBI was investigating.
Several months pass
Event 6
Many months later the NYPD claims one of its people recalls an interaction that may have been related to the Karina Vetrano murder. The NYPD story defies logic.
So by shortly after the third murder the FBI in NY appears to have been involved.
They would have known almost as quickly as the NYPD that the Karina Vetrano killer was Chanel Lewis.
They also knew that this fact had to be hidden until it could be made palatable to the public. It would not do to tell the public "The NYPD abused a black guy with severe mental illness, in Howard Beach, and that Black person then committed a murder which any student of psychology could easily connect to the actions of the police". Howard Beach has a unique history in NY which makes the location problematic.
So the NY FBI helped the NYPD sit on Chanel Lewis, and likely contacted their offices in Massachusetts and Michigan.
Copied here in case somebody researches the topic, screenshots at the bottom of the page might be easier to read.
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FleaSpirit
Just a question since I do not feel like going through what looks like at least four threads of 68 pages each.
There was a company called "New Horizon Billing & Profit Recovery, LLC" on the same street, and obviously a business like that generates angry traffic.
The owner either sold the company or moved it to another city in 2018.
A few years ago looking at his online presence he seemed uncomfortable about that company, and a person has to wonder if it was because he got harassed by people or overquestioned by police, or because he didn't.
Is that discussed?
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FleaSpirit
Just to add some context of why that aspect is important.
Three girls were murdered in a very short time, a week or so. A news video from right after implies 'obviously' it is a serial killer.
The problem involves the second of the victims, Karina Vetrano.
An NYPD officer had stopped Chanel Lewis before the murder about 2 months, then called some other officers and they had forced him into a police car and dumped him in the Rockaways to 'punish' him for straying into an area where they felt he did not belong.
It was obvious almost immediately what happened to Vetrano, but the NYPD decided to sit on solving the case until they could figure out how to tidy up the perception problems that would occur after arresting him for murdering somebody a short distance from where he had been harassed by some cops. Howard beach has a history older people would remember.
The FBI helped the NYPD keep the case obscure until it could be tidied up, but did part of that FBI help involve limiting the Brueger investigation so that the 'serial killer' aspect could be used to cover the NYPD?
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Ozoner
FleaSpirit said: Just to add some context of why that aspect is important.
Three girls were murdered in a very short time, a week or so. A news video from right after implies 'obviously' it is a serial killer.
The problem involves the second of the victims, Karina Vetrano.
An NYPD officer had stopped Chanel Lewis before the murder about 2 months, then called some other officers and they had forced him into a police car and dumped him in the Rockaways to 'punish' him for straying into an area where they felt he did not belong.
It was obvious almost immediately what happened to Vetrano, but the NYPD decided to sit on solving the case until they could figure out how to tidy up the perception problems that would occur after arresting him for murdering somebody a short distance from where he had been harassed by some cops. Howard beach has a history older people would remember.
The FBI helped the NYPD keep the case obscure until it could be tidied up, but did part of that FBI help involve limiting the Brueger investigation so that the 'serial killer' aspect could be used to cover the NYPD?
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Are you confusing this case with a different one? Alexandra Brueger was killed in a semi-rural community in Oakland County, Michigan. The NYPD was not involved.
Or are you merely suggesting that the FBI's serial-killer experts were busy in New York? If that's what you're suggesting, then I'm not seeing how those dots connect.
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FleaSpirit
Ozoner said: Are you confusing this case with a different one? Alexandra Brueger was killed in a semi-rural community in Oakland County, Michigan. The NYPD was not involved.
Or are you merely suggesting that the FBI's serial-killer experts were busy in New York? If that's what you're suggesting, then I'm not seeing how those dots connect.
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3 girls jogging were killed in a week.
Right after the 3rd there was abundant speculation that a serial killer was involved, and the FBI would have looked at that aspect. You can look at news articles or interviews and that was the public perception.
The second murder though was solved almost immediately internally by the NYPD so the FBI and NYPD knew that it probably wasn't a serial killer. But the NYPD could not tell the public that they knew who the killer was, or there would be a public discussion about whether the NYPD provoked the murder.
So the NYPD sat on Chanel Lewis for a long time, then pretended to suddenly have the relevant lieutenant 'remember' the incident, etc.
The question here involves the first jogger, Ally Brueger. The FBI would have known to look into New Horizon Billing & Profit Recovery, LLC, something that local police may have missed.
So if that aspect has not been discussed on this thread then it would be interesting to try to get FBI records to see if they were aware of that aspect and buried it to keep the 'serial killer' theme alive at least until the NYPD could tidy up their Karina Vetrano narrative.
That's beyond my ability at the moment, but I'm just lining up ways to pass time in the future.
edit to clarify The FBI handles things that occur in several states, so none of the police agencies looking at the individual murders would look at the other two. But the FBI would. The public was not told that the NYPD knew about Chanel Lewis, and most likely they got help from the FBI in keeping that secret. There are a lot of small clues that the NYPD got help, and if part of that help involved suppressing facts that the FBI would have gotten quickly involving Ally Brueger then its possible the obvious implication of a collection agency down the street would have been actively suppressed. What is interesting is looking at how any discussion of that aspect was handled on this thread, and if there is obvious evidence of efforts to derail that subject, something that could be found by tediously going through hundreds of pages on this thread, but I don't feel like doing that.
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Nina Michigan
Michigan has abundant FBI resources and would not need to call in NY FBI agents for back up. Source - FIL spent 30 years as an agent.
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FleaSpirit
Nina Michigan said: Michigan has abundant FBI resources and would not need to call in NY FBI agents for back up. Source - FIL spent 30 years as an agent. That doesn't really have anything to do with it. I didn't articulate it well, so I'll try again.
A sequential timeline.
Event 1 Police deal with a black person in Howard Beach in an improper way which could be expected to create defensiveness in that person.
8 weeks or so pass
Event 2 Several weeks later, unrelated to event 1, Ally Brueger is murdered.
A few days pass
Event 3 Days after event 2 Karina Vetrano is murdered by the black person in Event 1 above. The killer is identified almost immediately but the NYPD hesitates to make an arrest for obvious reasons.
A few days pass
Event 4 Days after Event 2 and 3 Vanessa Marcotte is murdered.
Less than a day passes
Event 5 News sites start associating the three murders, and the mother of Ally Brueger says on a tv show that 'it is a serial killer driving around'. The implication being that law enforcement employees told her that, and led her to believe the FBI was investigating.
Several months pass
Event 6 Many months later the NYPD claims one of its people recalls an interaction that may have been related to the Karina Vetrano murder. The NYPD story defies logic.
So by shortly after the third murder the FBI in NY appears to have been involved.
They would have known almost as quickly as the NYPD that the Karina Vetrano killer was Chanel Lewis.
They also knew that this fact had to be hidden until it could be made palatable to the public. It would not do to tell the public "The NYPD abused a black guy with severe mental illness, in Howard Beach, and that Black person then committed a murder which any student of psychology could easily connect to the actions of the police". Howard Beach has a unique history in NY which makes the location problematic.
So the NY FBI helped the NYPD sit on Chanel Lewis, and likely contacted their offices in Massachusetts and Michigan.
So the Michigan FBI agents almost certainly got an email or other message from the NY FBI saying "Don't worry, it's not a serial killer"
The question is, did that email also say "We need to keep the serial killer possibility in the forefront of the public imagination to assist the NYPD. Please hold off on anything involving your case".
Very often such manipulations are blatant, Brittannee Drexel comes to mind.
Anybody could find out if such manipulation occurred in this case by looking at online discussion of the case and seeing how that discussion evolved.
Years ago Google was a reliable way to research such things, but unfortunately that is no longer the case.
Hence I ask on this thread "Does anybody who follows this case recall/etc/" so I don't have to spend a lot of time looking.
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Two weeks before Ally Brueger's death a business down the street from where she was killed became temporarily inactive, and that company filed its last financial report in March 2017 though it wasn't dissolved until February 2020.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_mi/801417920
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mzu-uhSa0boJ:https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/mi-alexandra-brueger-31-fatally-shot-while-jogging-rose-twp-30-jul-2016-5.391840/post-18157604&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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