08/31/09 When Greenwich Roundup Types The Greenwich Time And The Greenwich Police Department Listen

First Greenwich Roundup Posted This......

08/23/09 The Greenwich Police Department And The Greenwich Time Have Spent Another Year Ignoring A Murdered Little Greenwich Boy

Nothing Has Been Done For 25 Years:

Matthew Margolies - Greenwich's Other Unsolved Murder ......

Then The Greenwich Time Publishes This ......

Margolies, 25 years later: Still no killer, but cops are hopeful

Police say investigation is still active and the case can be solved

Twenty-five years after Pemberwick teenager Matthew Margolies went missing and was later found slain near his home, the killer remains at large. Despite all the time that has gone by, officials remain hopeful newly developed evidence will help crack the case.

"It is an active investigation and there have been some things worked on very recently," said Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane, who took over supervising the state's cold case squad little more than three years ago.

"I think the case can be solved. I don't want to get anyone's hopes up that these new developments will lead to it being solved," he said......

......In 2006, investigators informed the Margolies family that a request for a grand jury to indict a former Port Chester, N.Y., policeman had failed.

Police had begun focusing on the retired police officer, Roger Bates, who had been convicted of child molestation in Texas. During Bates' sentencing, a childhood friend of Matthew Margolies testified that Bates had molested him too, in 1984, and that Bates had taken the two boys fishing on one occasion that year, according to Shelley Hallman, the Dallas assistant district attorney who prosecuted Bates. .....

.....Soon after, Sgt. Timothy Duff, who had been handling the investigation, retired and Sgt. Mark Zuccerella took over. Zuccerella said he felt many hurdles faced in the past had to do with bad information.

"The investigation has been hindered in many ways primarily by people intentionally misleading us or withholding information......

....."We are excited that these past obstacles we had to deal with can be overcome and we have already produced evidence we didn't have in the past," Zuccerella said.

Zuccerella said police have narrowed the number of suspects, but neither he nor Kane would comment on whether any previous suspects, such as Bates, had been cleared in the case.

It took 25 years for Greenwich police to solve another long-time cold case, the murder of Martha Moxley, who was beaten to death with a golf club in the backyard of her Belle Haven home.....

.......Zuccerella said he and two other Greenwich detectives are in regular contact with the family.

"We are in contact with the family quite often," said Zuccerella. "A lot of things, however, we are holding close to our chests."........

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