![]() Jeanine Pirro, then the Westchester district attorney, who charged Michael with second-degree murder, would call him “the most famous schizophrenic in America,” a perverse designation, though strangely in tune with the aura of specialness that had characterized so much of his life, and that had shaped the expectations we’d grown up with. When police officers from Hastings-on-Hudson showed up the next morning to bring Michael back there, they were surprised to find reporters, photographers, and TV cameras waiting outside the Ithaca jail. The woman was dead, the scene ghastly.Īnd so it was that my best friend from childhood, who had grown up on the same street as me gone to the same sleepaway camp, the same schools, the same college competed for the same prizes and dreamed the same dream of becoming a writer, was arrested for murdering the person he loved most in the world. “He did just what he said he did.” They had people at the apartment. ![]() Mospan prefaced his request to the Hastings-on-Hudson dispatcher by saying, “This may sound off the wall …” Because who kills someone in Westchester County, drives to Binghamton, and takes a bus to Ithaca, as Michael said he had done, only to surrender to campus police? The dispatcher asked him to wait a moment, and then a detective came on the line. His concern seemed urgent and genuine, though puzzlingly he said this had happened in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 220 miles away. He thought so, but asked, “Can we check on her?” In that case, “where did the blood all over your person come from?” Michael told him it was Caroline’s blood. When Sergeant Philip Mospan, the officer in charge that night, asked Michael if he was hurt, he received a simple no. Once inside, Michael didn’t need much prodding to answer questions, but whenever he mentioned possibly harming his girlfriend, whom he sometimes referred to as his fiancée, he added, “or a windup doll.” They escorted the man, whose name was Michael Laudor, to Barton Hall, the looming stone fortress that the campus police shared with the athletics department. ![]() The police station was all of 100 yards away, on Campus Road, and officers were already coming toward them, some on foot, others in cars. She thought again that the disoriented man, whose clothes were bloody, had been attacked or maybe had fallen into one of the steep gorges that famously intersect the campus, but when she tried to steer him out of the road, he leaped back, a large hand clenched into a fist. Brewer radioed in the strange encounter, requested backup, and got out of her car. He seemed to be saying that he might have killed someone, his girlfriend or perhaps a windup doll. He was muttering incoherently his rust-colored beard and hair were wildly matted. He lowered his face, shiny with sweat, close to hers. Suddenly, as if in a single stride, the man was at her window. “I think they’re just jerks and they got what they deserved.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. “But, it’s over and done with,” Brewer said then. Speaking in 2010, he told CNN’s John Zarrella that he wished he could deal with his three former friends himself. Mendez has admitted setting Brewer on fire, and that he made a “bad decision,” according to an arrest transcript.īrewer ran about 100 yards to an apartment complex pool, where he dove in. Police say witnesses told them his attackers called Brewer a “snitch.”ĭetectives say eyewitnesses told them that then-15-year-old Jarvis poured alcohol over Brewer and then-16-year-old Mendez used a lighter to start the fire. The next day, after Bent was released, the three found Brewer and allegedly surrounded him. “You can’t orchestrate something then wipe your hands and say, ‘Oh they did it! They did it on their own, I had nothing to do with it.’”ĭetectives say Bent demanded $40 he said Brewer owed him and, when he didn’t pay, Bent allegedly stole Brewer’s father’s bicycle.īrewer fingered Bent to police, who arrested the teen. ![]() “I am asking that now, today, 975 days later asking you to hold this young man responsible for his actions,” prosecutor Maria Schneider said during the trial, according to WBFS. Both testified during Bent’s trial, according to CNN affiliate WBFS in Miami.īent did not take the stand, and his defense did not call any witnesses, the affiliate reported. Jarvis and Mendez pleaded no contest and are serving time in prison. Brewer suffered burns over 65% of his body and was hospitalized for more than two months.
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