and i was reading it, and it was just i couldn t even comprehend what i was reading. michael mastromarino. chris and lee and joseph were set to turn themselves in, the end of february of 2006. and they did. sure enough, they came in, they were arraigned in supreme court in brooklyn. they came in, there was cameras everywhere. there was family members who were irate. it was a very tense day, but it was also a good day from the point of view of saying we ve indicted them, now they re going to face charges. i turned myself in. i didn t get arrested, i turned myself in with my attorney 10:00 at night and walked into the d.a. s office in brooklyn and i stayed there overnight. and then, you know, they had the parade of me walking into court
and they say, the blood is good. the blood is diseased. i don t want the tissue. what was happening was the blood dna didn t match the tissue dna and that none of this was matching. they had extra vials of blood. it was in that bag, pull it out when necessary. they knew it was already checked and clean and acceptable to the processing companies. they called it, deemed it the okay bag. they were sending down tissue that they had no idea on whether the tissue was taken from somebody who died from hepatitis or aids or syphilis or any one of those diseases. i met up with michael and i presented to him the dna. i said, mike, what is this? ah, don t worry about it. no. we got to worry about it. what are you talking about? what is it? you ve got to explain this to me. no, no, no, that s nothing.
i knew he was in a better place. at least i thought that s where he was going, was a better place. the next day, i went to daniel george funeral parlor, that s on bath avenue, to make arrangements for my father to be laid out. the owner of the establishment kind of made everything go smoothly, made me feel good and comforted me. i actually picked out a wood type coffin because my father being that he was a carpenter and things like that, loved wood. i didn t want to go with the aluminum, because it kind of like was cold and just there was no warmth to it. and picking out a coffin for your father is not something that you want to do. there was a lot of things i wanted to stipulate to, as far as i did not want to have my father embalmed.
i knew he was in a better place. at least i thought that s where he was going, was a better place. the next day, i went to daniel george funeral parlor, that s on bath avenue, to make arrangements for my father to be laid out. the owner of the establishment kind of made everything go smoothly, made me feel good and comforted me. i actually picked out a wood type coffin because my father being that he was a carpenter and things like that, loved wood. i didn t want to go with the aluminum, because it kind of like was cold and just there was no warmth to it. and picking out a coffin for your father is not something that you want to do. there was a lot of things i wanted to stipulate to, as far as i did not want to have my
that s out of a frankenstein movie, to be quite honest with you, i felt the same way that everybody else felt when they first heard about it. then he explained to me, yes, it s done everyday, this is a legal business. and then i began to do my own research on the industry. so that was my first meeting with michael. like any case, if you don t know it, you have to educate yourself. if it s a medical case, you have to speak to a medical doctor. if it s a bone case, you have to speak to the people who process bone. then i learned it was legal. so it became like, well, i didn t know that. but let me take a look at it. it s been documented you cannot pay for bone, you can t buy bone. so what they call it is paying for recovery fee. the companies that process bones pay for the service of recovering their bone. sure enough, i just happened to be looking through documents to understand what was in those boxes, i looked at two documents that supposedly should have had