Murder on the Esplanade
They set me up with a job and a place to live for the summer of 1971, to solve this crime; I don't really know who "they"
are. Karen Giroux had also been contacted about it. An early theory of the murder was that it could be someone the
victim met on datamate, a computer dating service. So to make me a suspect and blow my cover, to the crime side of the
FBI, Lagarias filled in the datamate form for me to get me matched with her. The murder was to happen on the Charles
River Esplanade near the Boston University boat house, so they had me get in the habit of riding around the esplanade
starting at the stairs leading down from the BU bridge on my bicycle.
I'm not sure of the dates, it might have been the first Saturday night in June, I went out on my bicycle around midnight,
and met some people at the BU bridge stairs, who were also there because of the murder investigation. I think Lark was
there. They told me there was a "gunman", and that I should go find a cop. That took me about 15 minutes, and I think it
was a polish agent. He wouldn't investigate, so I deliberately forgot the whole thing and went home. Sunday morning at
about 6AM I was out there again, and I found the body. She was tied with a stocking around her neck to a bench post. I
felt her forehead and it was cold. So I called the police. I told him that I didn't want to have anything more to do with this
investigation, but he said he thought I was much more involved. I told him my Cambridge bicycle license number in case
they ever needed to look me up; it was 92.
In 1985 I was reading the Boston Globe and the "murderer" had gotten out of prison. The body had been found under
the BU boathouse with a lot of blood. She'd been raped, obviously. I had nothing to do in 1985 with my whole life, so I
got involved in the crime solution. I think the body I found was an investigator. The "murderer" was probably the guy I
met there a little past midnight Saturday night with Lark. The "murderer" was caught when an anonymous tip located the
guy's bloody diner jacket hidden in a church. Obviously the "gunman" planted the evidence. I think Lark never came
forward because of the gun at her head in the future and because she may have been complicit in the murder of the
second girl, the "investigator".
This is Saturday August 13, 2011. I found the legal case, it's Massachusetts v Henry H Sullivan. It was the first Saturday
night in June 1971. Now the record reads that the body was found sitting on a bench, not under the boathouse.
Someone tampered with the evidence after I called the police that Sunday morning at 6AM, but before the police found
the crime scene. There was a stocking tied around the neck and the "riser" or leg of the bench. There was no blood.
There's an outside possibility that someone cut the stocking trying to save the girl before the police arrived. Her name
was Barbara Ann Bogdan. But I still believe the gunman theory; someone planted the bloody jacket in the church.