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| oldies4mari2004 | Feb 13 2007, 11:09 PM Post #1 |
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Cold Case File Lockport detectives still hope for breaks in three mysterious cases By April Amadon Lockport Union-Sun & Journal Six cardboard boxes, each filled to the brim with paperwork and evidence, sit on a top shelf in the Lockport Police Department’s Detective Division, a constant reminder of cases left unsolved. Even as the years go by, detectives are still doing all they can to make sure the cases are eventually solved. “You get busy,” Lockport Police Detective Capt. Larry Eggert said. “The recent cases start to take precedence over these. So it’s not that they’re neglected, but they just get to the point where there’s nothing more you can do with them. It’s very frustrating to sit here and look at them and know that there’s not a darn thing you can do.” The six boxes are tied to three cases in particular that stand out for city detectives: One missing person and two homicides, the oldest of which goes back 16 years. There is always hope, however, as seen in the recent arrest of a suspect in the Bike Path Rapist case — a case that stretches more than two decades. “You just chase down every lead, and you work on it as often as you can, and if anything new comes up, review it,” said Lockport Police Detective Lt. Rick Podgers. “We’re the only people that speak for the victim. Whether or not they’re good people, bad people or what they are.” The more exposure a case gets, the better, Eggert hopes. “It’s nice that once in a while we can reach out to the public and maybe just jiggle somebody’s memory, or maybe just hit that right day when they’re just feeling kind of low and the conscience starts to kick in and you start to feel a little guilty,” he said. “Because that’s all it takes. Just that one little plug that’s holding all the water back, and if you pull that cork out, the whole thing comes at you and you solve it.” Anyone with information about one of the following cases is asked to call the detectives division at 439-6722 or 439-6666. A lack of closure Almost nine years after she disappeared without a trace, Roger Bulmer remains optimistic that his daughter Cindy will be found. Roger has printed out “Missing” posters with Cindy’s picture, advertising a $27,500 reward for information about her disappearance, posting them not only locally but in other states like Florida, Nevada and California. “Someone could see it and know something,” Roger said. “I hope that something comes out of it. I hope they find something.” Cynthia Bulmer, who would now be 40, has been missing since March 26, 1998. She’s described as 5 feet 9 inches tall with blue eyes and brown hair. Eggert said she was last seen that night at having drinks at the Redmen’s Club in the City of Lockport, where she wrote her name in a sign-in book. Unfortunately, she wasn’t reported missing for a few days after the fact. “The investigation didn’t even start until the case was already starting to grow cool,” Eggert said. Police say Cindy, a former employee at Harrison’s, had become involved in drugs and prostitution, which may have had something to do with her disappearance. Despite her father’s optimism, police suspect the worst for Bulmer. “She probably is not alive,” Eggert said. “We’re assuming foul play.” Police have even begun to consider Cindy’s disappearance may be tied to the Bike Path Rapist, though there is no evidence to connect the crimes. “Depending on how the case goes in Amherst and Erie County, we’ll probably want to touch base with them to see,” Eggert said. “You never know.” One suspect police considered was James McPhail, a former Lockport man who was convicted of killing Robin Dye Coleman after a DNA sample connected him to the crime in 2001. Cindy’s DNA, which investigators collected from her hairbrush, was entered into VICAP, a national database for DNA samples and other information. In the event her body is found in another state, the DNA match will be made through the database. Roger remembers his daughter as a dancer and skater who loved her dogs. At the time of her disappearance, she was living on Ontario Street with her dog Gizmo. “She was nice,” Roger said, smiling. The $27,500 reward includes contributions from Roger, the UAW/CIO and Cindy’s siblings. “The hardest thing for the families in this unsolved stuff is the lack of closure,” Eggert said. “This woman here, this is even worse because we don’t have a body.” A mysterious killing In the early morning hours of May 5, 1991, a visitor at 317 Washburn St. was walking to the front porch of the home when he stumbled over a dead body in the grass. Panicked, the visitor flagged down a passing police car, and the investigation began. The dead man was Michael Brolinski, a 36-year-old self-employed painter who lived at 321 Washburn St., just a couple of doors down from where he was found, face-up, bruised and beaten on the lawn. There were no outward signs of trauma on the body, but it appears Brolinski was beaten to death. “The autopsy showed he had multiple contusions and abrasions, like he was punched and kicked,” Eggert said. “He died, I think, from trauma to the neck area that caused him to suffocate.” Blood was found on his shirt and evidence was collected from around the area. Eggert said the Brolinski beating is probably the oldest unsolved case detectives have. The evidence has been re-examined in the past few years, but nothing conclusive has been determined. “We had a list of people of interest, but we never came up with that little bit of evidence that put it over the top for us to make an arrest,” Eggert said. Brolinski, who attended Newfane High School, lived on Washburn Street with his brother, Shawn Johnson. He reportedly left home just a few hours before the body was discovered. According to a May 8, 1991, article in the Union-Sun & Journal, witnesses reported seeing nothing unusual outside the house the night of Brolinski’s death. Because there was no extreme violence involved, the fight may have not attracted a lot of attention. City detectives were joined in the investigation by investigators from the Niagara County Sheriff’s department, as well as police from Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda. A lack of witnesses On a warm summer night in 2003, gunfire shattered a North End neighborhood. In what was the city’s first homicide in over two years, Daniel G. Tomlinson, 40, was shot in the driveway of his North Transit Street home on July 29 while his wife looked on. Neighbors described seeing a a black man, 5-foot, 10-inches tall, weighing between 150 and 160 pounds, running from the scene. He wore his hair in corn rows or dreadlocks and was wearing a short-sleeved, blue plaid collared shirt. He was seen running west on Green Street shortly after the shooting. Eggert said police believe Tomlinson had ties with the local Jamaican community, possibly with a group of Jamaicans who were importing marijuana to the area. Tomlinson was facing drug and weapons charges in Niagara County Court at the time of the shooting, stemming from a raid that was conducted on his home in December, 2002. Police reportedly found eight pounds of marijuana in Tomlinson’s basement during the raid, as well as a 9mm Smith and Wesson handgun that had been stolen from a Niagara Falls Police Officer. Tomlinson was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He was out on $2,000 bail when he was killed, just over two weeks before his next scheduled court date. The suspect was reportedly waiting outside Tomlinson’s home, in the shadows of a neighbor’s house, before the shooting. A neighbor told police he’d asked the man if he needed any help, and the man said no. When Tomlinson returned home, “The guy asked him his name and shot him in the face,” Eggert said. This case has been especially baffling for detectives, as cooperating witnesses have been hard to come by. “The Jamaican community is very close-knit, and coming from Jamaica, they have a tendency not to trust police,” Eggert said. “Without that person or persons coming forward, it’s like screaming into the wind. You can’t do a whole lot.” Podgers said detectives will keep working the case until it’s solved, no matter how daunting it is. In the Tomlinson case, it’s especially tough because “people of interest that we’re looking for have apparently left the country,” he said. “It’s frustrating when specific members of the community won’t assist you, won’t give you information,” he said. Eggert echoed that frustration. “Usually, murders, people take them seriously, because they could be sitting in the box here,” he said, motioning to the box of paperwork and files marked with Tomlinson’s name. “A lot of people can relate to that, so they’ll talk to us. But in this case, we didn’t get all that much.” http://www.lockportjournal.com/local/local..._021013203.html Attached Image |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Feb 13 2007, 11:11 PM Post #2 |
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Cynthia D. Bulmer Above Images: Bulmer, circa 1998 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: March 26, 1998 from Lockport, New York Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: April 4, 1957 Age: 40 years old Height and Weight: 5'11, 110 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Black hair, green eyes. Bulmer has a tattoo of a ladybug on one of her ankles. She has a tattoo of the name "Jimbo" on one of her buttocks. Bulmer's nickname is Cindy. Clothing/Jewelry Description: Dungarees. Details of Disappearance Bulmer visited the Redman Club in her hometown of Lockport, New York during the evening hours of March 26, 1998. She stopped at Kendzies Restaurant (occasionally referred to as Kendzies Lounge) on Main Street shortly thereafter. Bulmer was last seen departing the restaurant at approximately 10:30 p.m. She was followed by two African-American males. Bulmer lived in an apartment in the 100 block of Ontario Street in Lockport at the time, five blocks from the restaurant. She never returned to her residence and has not been seen again. The identities of the two men who followed Bulmer are known and both of the individuals are now deceased. One of them was her sometime boyfriend and was murdered after 1998. The other died in prison in June 2001. Both men were involved in the local drug culture, but it is not known whether they were connected to Bulmer's disappearance. Foul play is suspected in her case. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Lockport Police Department 716-728-5758 Source Information New York State Police The National Center for Missing Adults Lockport, New York Home Page New York Missing Persons Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated December 2, 2005; details of disappearance updated. Charley Project Home |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Feb 13 2007, 11:12 PM Post #3 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Feb 13 2007, 11:16 PM Post #4 |
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| ELL | May 4 2007, 10:40 AM Post #5 |
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Search for missing woman’s bones inconclusive By Thomas J. Prohaska and Nancy A. Fischer - NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Updated: 05/04/07 7:29 AM SAVE EMAIL PRINT POPULAR + Larger Font + Smaller Font LOCKPORT — City police used a backhoe to dig through a Green Street backyard for more than six hours Thursday after a prison inmate told federal agents that a woman who has been missing for nine years was buried there. However, the dogged search turned up nothing that could be definitely identified as human remains. Detective Capt. Lawrence M. Eggert said, “We found some things. We don’t know what they are yet. We’re sending them to the (Erie County Forensic) lab.” But he said the lumps aren’t obvious human bones. Eggert said, “Anytime you have something in the ground for a long time, and I’m no anthropological expert, they tend to change color.” Eggert said police were acting on a tip that agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave him Wednesday. It came from a prisoner whom Eggert would not identify, although he did say the man wasn’t a local inmate. The man said Cynthia Bulmer, a Lockport woman who was last seen alive in March 1998, was buried at 139 Green St. Eggert said the tipster was brought to the scene twice Thursday. On the second occasion, Eggert said, “He was very emphatic about a certain area. We were just about to dig there, so we went slower.” But the results were negative. Eggert said police were “really excited” about a possible break in the cold case. But when the search apparently flopped, “We were let down a little bit.” The only definitely identifiable bones found during the dig weren’t human. “We found some squirrels. We found some chickens. I think we found the family dog,” Eggert said. “I have enough old bottles back there that we could make a lot of money.” The house, a four-apartment dwelling, has been the scene of as many as six drug raids in the past decade, Eggert said. It is co-owned by Sharon L. Schuck and Thomas L. Maida, both of Gasport, according to the city assessor’s office. Schuck said Thursday night that everyone was making a big deal out of nothing. “They found nothing. . . . I had nothing to with any of this,” Schuck said. She refused to talk about coowner Maida, but searches of past police records found that the home on Green Street had been raided twice by the Niagara County Drug Task Force in 1993 and 1994, when Maida lived there. FBI agents questioned Maida in 1994 in an effort to find out if he had information about the still-unsolved 1993 shooting of Lockport Police Officer Steven L. Biles. Maida, 55, also has an attempted second-degree assault conviction, for which he served time in prison from 1975 to 1976. Eggert said Maida was never a suspect in Bulmer’s disappearance. Bulmer, who was 41 when she disappeared, had lived on Ontario Street. She was last seen leaving the former Kendzie’s Bar on Main Street in the company of two men. The men were unidentified at the time, but the New York State Missing Persons Web site said the identities of both men are now known and both have since died. Both, including one who was described as her “sometime” boyfriend, were involved in the local drug scene, according to the site. http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/68272.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | May 5 2007, 08:22 PM Post #6 |
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http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6470561 Lockport, NY, May 4, 2007) - - We have an update on a big dig in Lockport that may be connected to a missing person's case. News 4's Ellen Maxwell has more on this case that people are curious about. Lockport Police say an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms gave them a new lead in a nine year old missing persons case, but after a day of digging for evidence, they're not sure what they've found. 41 year old Cynthia Bulmer vanished in March 1998. Her car is still sitting in front of the house where she used to live. Her family pleaded for help finding her back then, even offering a reward for her return. Cynthia Bulmer's father Roger Bulmer: "Not knowing; that's the worst part." (May, 1998) Thursday, Bulmer's family had new hope for closure when an ATF informant lead police to a backyard, just a few blocks from where she lived. Police spent hours digging up 90% of the back yard, but didn't find a body. Lockport Police Department Captain Larry Eggert said, "We did find some things that could be bones. They're covered in dirt. We're not sure if they're human or not." Those remains are at a lab for analysis. Old neighbors and acquaintances are hoping the remains reveal some trace of Bulmer. Lockport resident Bryan Sullivan said, "Hopefully they did find her, so that her family can sleep at night." Anyone with information about the Cynthia Bulmer case is asked to call Lockport Police at 439-6710. They are analyzing the back yard remains as we speak. Police say there are people of interest in the case, but they don't have any one suspect. |
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