SOURCING, METHODOLOGY & OPINION VS. FACT

FACTUAL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN WAS CULLED FROM POLICE records, court documents and transcripts, statements of victims, witnesses and defendants, notes, newspaper clippings and other sources of public and private information. Public sources are identified. At times material was obtained from Dominick D. DiPaolo’s memory.

Opinion and private thoughts have been clearly identified as those of the authors, or are obvious to the reader. On rare occasions where no written or oral record, or gaps in the storyline exist, dramatic license is taken and reasonable supposition employed.

As always, every person charged with or suspected of a crime is considered not guilty until proven otherwise through court conviction or guilty plea. Also, rare instances involving individuals not identified in photographs do not connote negativity about those individuals; none is intended.