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| oldies4mari2004 | Mar 11 2007, 09:06 PM Post #1 |
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Dominick A. Pendino Above: Pendino, circa 1999 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: March 3, 1999 from Newburgh, New York Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: May 22, 1962 Age: 36 years old Height and Weight: 5'8, 180 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Pendino shaved his head prior to his 1999 disappearance. He may have a moustache. Pendino's left ear is pierced. He injured his left arm prior to his disappearance; the injury had not yet healed at the time he vanished. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A blue Auto Action t-shirt, a green waist-length coat, jeans and black sneakers. Details of Disappearance Pendino prepared to depart from his family's residence in Newburgh, New York at approximately 5:50 a.m. on March 3, 1999. His wife saw him standing in their driveway at that time. He was supposed to report to work at the Newburgh Auto Auction that morning. Pendino never arrived at work. His wife called authorities when she noticed his car was still parked at their home at 7:00 a.m. A trail of blood was found leading away from the vehicle, but there was no sign of Pendino. An extensive search failed to produce any clues as to his whereabouts. Gregory Chrysler and Lawrence Weygant were convicted of Pendino's murder in 2000. Authorities say Chrysler and Lawrence beat Pendino to death with a baseball bat near his residence because they thought he had told the police about Chrysler's marijuana dealings. Both men received 25 years to life in prison. Pendino's body has never been located. Foul play is suspected in his case due to the circumstances involved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Newburgh Police Department 845-564-1100 Source Information New York State Police The Watertown Daily Times The Times Herald-Record The Poughkeepsie Journal Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated October 30, 2005; details of disappearance updated. Charley Project Home |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Mar 11 2007, 09:07 PM Post #2 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:14 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...9300337/-1/NEWS By Doyle Murphy Times Herald-Record Posted: September 30, 2009 - 2:00 AM CITY OF NEWBURGH — In the basement of a house where a killer's relatives once lived, police dug into the floor hoping to solve a 10-year-old mystery. Town of Newburgh police were looking for Dominick Pendino's remains on Tuesday when they arrived at 264 Washington St. Larry Weygant and Greg Chrysler killed Pendino in 1999, leaving blood on his driveway but no answers as to the location of his body. The two men were convicted of second-degree murder in 2000 and exhausted their state and federal appeals. Weygant is serving 27 years to life in prison, while Chrysler is serving 25 to life. They have never said what they did with Pendino's body, leaving relatives and police to search for the answer on their own. Related Photo Galleries More Town detectives thought they had a good lead on Tuesday. Armed with a search warrant, they had to pull plywood off the windows and doors to get inside the abandoned two-story building on Washington Street. George Weygant, an elder relative of Larry Weygant, had lived there before he died in 2002. The house has since become a haven for drug addicts who climb over mounds of trash in the backyard and enter through the back windows. In the basement, detectives and officers worked under floodlights with shovels, pry bars and rakes. They paused only to allow periodic searches by state police cadaver dogs. Four hours later, the cops emerged dusty and tired with no sign of Pendino. Over the years, police have followed a number of tips and conducted searches throughout the region. The familial link to Larry Weygant paired with the unpublicized details known by the source lent the most recent tip an air of credibility, but it ended with the same result as the others. "It's not the first search, and it won't be the last," Lt. Michael Clancy said. Detective Bill Leonick has worked the case for 10 years. He pulled off his blue rubber gloves and helped load the tools Tuesday afternoon. "We'll find him," he said. They sealed up the house, and Leonick headed off to tell Pendino's family. dmurphy@th-record.com |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:14 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:15 PM Post #5 |
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http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/20...4/14/body14.htm April 14, 2005 Cops comb farm for body Pendino was murdered in '99 By Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record hyakin@th-record.com Montgomery – In the woods and fields on old farmland between Browns Road and Stone Castle Road in Montgomery, cops searched yesterday for the remains of Dominick Pendino. It was on March 3, 1999, when Pendino, 37, vanished from the driveway of his Town of Newburgh home. He left pools and droplets of blood behind, enough for police to conclude that he was dead. Two months later, Town of Newburgh police arrested two of Pendino's friends in the murder, Gregory Chrysler and Larry Weygant. In 2000, they were convicted of murder and conspiracy to sell marijuana. It was proved at trial that they killed Pendino because Chrysler mistakenly believed Pendino had given police a tip about Chrysler's marijuana business that led to Chrysler and his wife getting arrested. But Chrysler and Weygant never talked, and Pendino's body has never been found. A new anonymous tip triggered yesterday's expedition off private Lotocke Drive, little more than a dirt trail leading into fields where the bases of last year's cornstalks lay dead in the mud. The fields fit a description that's haunted the case: A dirt access road to secluded fields on an old farm. If anyone dumped a body here, they did so without the owner's knowledge, police said. Town of Newburgh police, Orange County district attorney's investigators and state troopers got to the site about 11 a.m. "I don't want to say too much, because we don't know what it's going to reveal," Town of Newburgh police Sgt. Margaret O'Neill said. Unmarked cop cars were clustered next to the muddy access road at the edge of a cornfield. In a clearing nearby, state police and Dutchess County Sheriff's Office dog handlers were parked. The handlers took turns searching the woods above the clearing. Cops with shovels dug in to check the spots where the cadaver dogs alerted them to possible evidence. Just before 2:45 p.m. a state police helicopter started flyovers so Newburgh detectives could shoot aerial photos of the scene. By 4 p.m., the Newburgh police tactical team began a grid-type search, walking through the woods at the edges of the clearing, in search of any depression or other sign that a body might have been buried there six years ago. "Over the years, we've gotten a lot of different tips, and a lot of locations were checked," O'Neill said. The search went until dark. O'Neill said they'd play it by ear as to whether to search again today. The Browns Road site is about halfway between Pendino's home on Sterling Circle in the Town of Newburgh and Walden. After the crime, trial records show that Chrysler took his white Toyota 4Runner to Riverside Tire in Walden, and strong-armed the detail man there into cleaning blood spots out of the SUV. Chrysler, 44, and Weygant, 43, both of New Windsor, are each serving 25 years to life. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:17 PM Post #6 |
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http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/20...08/omcolumn.htm New hope in Pendino murder By Oliver Mackson The Times Herald-Record omackson@th-record.com The tip came two years after Dominick Pendino disappeared, leaving a trail of blood in his Town of Newburgh driveway, so much blood that he just had to be dead. The tip came a year after Pendino's killers were convicted. Tomorrow, it will lead police and a renowned team of search dogs into the woods where Orange County meets Ulster. The tip offers no guarantee of success. But it offers the best hope, so far, of finding Dominick Pendino's body. After all this time, a foray into the woods is the best hope of finding the last piece missing from one of the saddest puzzles we've seen in a long time up here. Pendino was 36. He and his wife lived in the Town of Newburgh, with family all around them. When her husband disappeared, Cynthia Pendino was seven months pregnant. Pendino worked at the Newburgh Auto Auction. In March 1999, two men named Larry Weygant and Greg Chrysler decided that Pendino had snitched to the cops that Chrysler was dealing pot. Pendino wasn't the snitch. It turned out to be someone else. But still, Weygant and Chrysler murdered Pendino. Oh, sure, they're appealing. Their families have proclaimed the innocence of Chrysler and Weygant in indignant phone calls to reporters. They made coarse, cursing speeches at the courthouse. But all we need to know is that a jury said both men are murderers. And all that's left is to find Dominick Pendino's body and give him a decent burial. Pendino's family has appealed to the consciences of both killers, asked them to perform one redeeming act and give up the place where they left Pendino's body. Chrysler sneered at the family, read a book about a serial killer as he was sentenced. Weygant put on a civilized act that fooled no one, said he didn't know where to find the body. Both men have significant reputations for bad behavior. Weygant has a rap sheet the size of a car-repair manual. Chrysler was defended by a lawyer best known for representing mob boss John Gotti. The Pendinos and the police have waited for someone's conscience to trump their fear of the killers, waited for someone to step up and say what they know. The Pendino family has stayed low-key and level-headed all this time, wearing their dignity like black funeral crepe. Two weeks ago, without any fanfare, a headstone bearing Dominick Pendino's name was placed on a plot in a cemetery off Route 9W. His sister, Julie, said, "It's good to have a place for Dominick." Then came the phone call. "For whatever reason, someone just decided now to call, as opposed to two years ago," said Newburgh town police Lt. Mike Clancy. "There've been many, many calls that would have led to dead ends. This information was checked out, and a lot of things seemed to fit." The information concerned cars that were seen on the county line. They were seen the morning Pendino disappeared. The caller says the cars looked like cars mentioned during the trial when there was testimony about blood on a seat belt. Pendino's blood. His family won't be able to enjoy his company again, watch him roughhouse with his kids. That was settled a long time ago. What remains unsettled, two years later, is Pendino's grave. It shouldn't be the place his killers chose, off in the woods or at the bottom of some weedy gully, the kind of place you'd find a deer carcass. Dominick Pendino should be allowed to rest in the place that was chosen by the people who loved him. Oliver Mackson's column appears Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. He can be reached at 346-3130 and omackson@th-record.com |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:18 PM Post #7 |
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http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/20...31/omcolumn.htm A family waits for the phone to ring By Oliver Mackson The Times Herald-Record omackson@th-record.com The phone calls should have started about six months ago. That was when a jury slammed the door on two of the scariest guys anyone ever saw up here. Julie Pendino had hoped the conviction would lift the anvil's weight of fear off someone's back. She had hoped someone might stop worrying about Larry Weygant and Greg Chrysler long enough to make a call to the police, tell them where they could find the body of Julie's older brother, Dominick Pendino. "If anybody feels it in their heart to give Dominick the respect he deserved ... He didn't deserve this. He deserves respect. I feel that there's someone out there who does know where Dominick is, and it's just not fair." If someone is out there, that person's not saying what he knows. This tells you something about the reputations of Weygant and Chrysler, who are both big and cocky and have rap sheets that unfold like big accordions. Chrysler even had John Gotti's lawyer defending him. Chrysler and Weygant murdered Pendino because they thought, wrongly, that he snitched to the police about Chrysler's pot stash. Despite the lack of a body, the jury convicted them. Chrysler and Weygant are now doing 25 years-to-life in state prison. They're appealing their convictions, which may be another reason the phone isn't ringing. Last week, Julie was in Orange County Court to watch the real snitch, Mike Ronsini, get prison for drug possession. Afterward, she said, "It's your family. You wake up every day and you think of him. You know why? Because it was a horrible death." Dominick was 36 years old, stood 5-foot-7 and 160 pounds. He had lost the use of an arm in a motorcycle accident. He lived in a pretty, woodsy part of the Town of Newburgh, toward the Ulster County line. He had a wife, Cynthia. They had a son. Another boy was on the way when Dominick disappeared. "He was always warm and kidding around, joking and having fun. Life was very good for him," Julie said. "Cynthia's doing well. Her kids are getting big. It's hard. Everything's just on your shoulder, every week, every day. You have to go on. But it's never over." A few weeks ago, Julie went to a wake. "It was a young girl. I didn't know her. I was friendly with her sister-in-law. But I just started crying hysterically. Because with Dominick, I didn't get to do that. It's like stealing a child from a playground – you never see them again." He disappeared in March 1999. There was so much blood in his driveway, the police figured he had to be dead. "Everybody knew Larry," said Town of Newburgh Detective Gary Cooper. "Everybody knew Larry because of his bad-boy rep, and everybody knew Dominick Pendino because he was such a nice guy. I don't know anybody who liked Larry Weygant, and I don't know anybody who didn't like Dominick Pendino." He also doesn't know of anyone who can find Pendino's remains. But in June 1999, three months after all that blood was found in Pendino's driveway, police heard from a woman who thought she saw Weygant and Chrysler driving north toward Marlboro or Plattekill. That makes Cooper think there's someone else like that out there, someone who can point the police to a makeshift grave. For now, Julie Pendino and her family and the police wait for someone to call. Someone who liked and respected Dominick Pendino more than they feared and loathed the men who murdered him. Oliver Mackson's column appears Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Talk to him at 346-3130 or omackson@th-record.com. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 21 2009, 09:18 PM Post #8 |
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http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/20...10/omcolumn.htm Blue skies, grim search By Oliver Mackson The Times Herald-Record omackson@th-record.com How 'bout this weather, huh? You could picnic by the river, bask in the sun, fire up the barbecue. But if you were Al and Mary Pendino, a good part of yesterday was spent at the base of a clumpy, bumpy hill on the Orange-Ulster border. You were waiting to see if a team of German shepherds and their handlers could find your murdered son's body. Dominick Pendino disappeared more than two years ago. He was 36. His wife was seven months pregnant. If you were Dominick's sister, Julie, you went out and bought enough sandwiches and cold drinks to feed an army, so that the dogs and their handlers had enough fuel to get through the day. If you were Tim and Penny Sullivan of Chester, you were hoofing it through waist-high poison ivy. You were walking along jagged, ankle-blasting paths with Town of Newburgh police and volunteers from the Ramapo Rescue Dog Association. You were looking for a needle in a 30-acre haystack. For most of us up here, the most anxious part of the weekend was figuring out what sunscreen to use. Al Pendino and Mary Pendino parked on the side of the road and waited to see if they could finally claim the body of their son. It's been two years since he disappeared in a trail of blood, and a year since two thugs were convicted of murdering him. A recent, fresh tip led police to the hill on the county line. Someone asked Al Pendino if he'd rather be golfing on a beautiful day like this. He was wearing patio clothes, a pair of patterned Bermuda shorts and a sea-green T-shirt. "No, I don't do that," he said with a quick smile. "I fool with the flowers – gardening, stuff like that. I'd probably be showering and shaving, and getting ready to go to my granddaughter's dance recital." Pendino gently shook an index finger at the hill. "This is the spot. This is the spot," he said with conviction. Someone had just told the police a few days ago that this was the spot where three cars were seen the morning of March 5, 1999, the day Dominick Pendino was murdered. The cars were said to resemble cars driven that day by the killers, Larry Weygant and Greg Chrysler. Weygant had bragged that he knew every path in this part of town and every back road onto this crazy maze of a hill. The hope was that Weygant knew less about the abilities of German shepherds than he did about local geography. On top of the hill, Tim Sullivan recalled an occasion when a Ramapo dog found a body that had been buried 17 feet underground. At about 12:30 p.m. yesterday, Al and Mary Pendino shook hands with the police and left for the dance recital in New Paltz. Before he got in his car to leave, Al Pendino looked at the hill again. He said, "It's like a 5,000-piece puzzle, and the last piece, someone threw in the air." By 6 p.m., there was no sign of Dominick Pendino's remains. It appeared the search would resume today. This was some weekend, full of long, glorious days that could be spent with family or inspecting the flower beds in the back yard. Al Pendino likes flowers and loves to be with his family. But before he went to see his granddaughter dance yesterday, he went to see what might emerge from a hill covered with poison ivy. Oliver Mackson's column appears Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. He can be reached at 346-3130 and omackson@th-record.com. |
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