with him on the phone. and he said he didn t remember much about the case and he did not want to do an interview with me about it. but while lead detective gary whittaker arrested rosario, he is not the one who took statement. that was a different detective named irwin silverman. i m on my way to yonkers, new york on, this gloomy, arraigny day to speak with irwin silverman who is retired now. apparently his nickname is silky and he agreed to see me. he asked as. we meet in his synagogue. he arrives wearing a wild t-shirt as we set up in the room. you have a big owl staring at me. we re here to talk about the richard rosario case. correct. what do you remember about it? there is a lot i don t
me about it. but while lead detective gary whittaker arrested rosario, he is not the one who took statement. that was a different detective named irwin silverman. i m on my way to yonkers, new york on, this gloomy, arraigny day to speak with irwin silverman who is retired now. apparently his nickname is silky and he agreed to see me. he asked as. we meet in his synagogue. he arrives wearing a wild t-shirt as we set up in the room. you have a big owl staring at me. we re here to talk about the richard rosario case. correct. what do you remember about it? there is a lot i don t remember. and i was not really involved in that much of the case. he was a cop with the nypd for 41 years. most of that time as a detective in the bronx. he tells me he played a minor role in the investigation but an
defense investigator to go to florida. that petition was granted. and then she didn t do anything for a year. so the court actually granted rosario s attorney the money to send an investigator to florida. but the screwup comes in when joyce hartsfield hands the case over to steven kaiser who would represent him at trial. the first lawyer told the new lawyer that the petition had been denied. even though in fact it had been granted. translation, no one fully investigated rosario s alibi. not even his own defense attorney. it was just a mix-up, a misunderstanding. yes, a mix-up, but i found them, i spoke with them on the phone. right. i called them on the phone and they told me their story before i went to florida. could have done that too. he could have done that. and he didn t. i feel like i m missing something. you re not missing anything. it is a colossal injustice. six years after his conviction, rosario won a rare
different borough of new york city. we re here in brooklyn to look for robert davis, he lives over here in this building right next to coney island, we have no idea if he s home or if he even still lives here. we re going to to go and knock on his door, see if he s home and if he ll talk to us. it can be nerve wracking when tracking people down. you never know what you could be walking into or what kind of reaction you re going to get. but it is something i need to do, especially because of how important robert davis is to this case. as former detective bobby showed me at the crime scene. bump, words passed. the official theory of the crime is that george collazo s murder was the result of a random altercation among strangers. the gunman followed collazo and his friend michael sanchez down a side street, reports show robert davis was standing right about here. lucky for me, davis is home and allows me to record our
got the right is there a problem with that? yeah. i would never tell somebody, yeah, you got the right guy. what is the problem with doing that? you re influencing them at that point you re confirming to him, you already convicted him at that point. yes, you got the right guy. yes, this is the guy who did it. you re telling him this is the murderer. even though the lead detective gary whitaker didn t want to go on camera, he did tell me he would never show a witness just a few photos and everything was done by the book. i also called the nypd and they declined to speak about the case. the only other evidence against rosario is the person who first pointed to his picture, hours after the crime. the victim s friend, min michae sanchez. i m having trouble finding sanchez. and now i m starting to wonder if rosario is innocent, what really happened here? it is time to learn more about the victim, george collazo, and doing that will launch me on a brand-new trail. he was scared