Ex-NYPD Cop Charged in Parents Murder

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Hi, I'm retired NYPD detective Vic Ferrari and welcome to NYPD through the Looking Glass podcast where you get unique insight into the New York City Police Department. Before we get started, I encourage you to check out my Amazon author page where you'll find my series of behind-the-scenes NYPD books. They're a$10 payback or$2.99 ebook download, including my latest and greatest NYPD behind the blue wall of silence. Hope everyone's having a good week. I had a little bit of extra time today, so we're going to have a bonus episode. Please excuse if you hear hammering or noise in the background. My neighbor is next door, is having a new roof put on, and the Mexican army showed up about seven o'clock this morning. He didn't say anything to me, and he's got a barrel tile roof, so all that crap coming off is making a ton of noise. So then I go to the gym, right? And I get it. There's trucks parked up and down the street. I totally understand. I had a roof put on. I know what that entails. But the funny thing is, I come back from the gym, you know, about noon, and I got the Mexican Army sleeping in my front yard. I got trees in my front yard. They're all taking a siesta run of this. Told a couple to move. I got a couple dirty looks. So I found the overseer and I said, listen, you keep this shit up. I'm gonna have I'm gonna run the sprinklers all day. So I think they've gotten a hint. Hopefully they'll be out of here in a day or two. I'm really happy about the other day's episode with uh retired Chicago cop Charlie Tusis. What a storyteller that guy is. I saw him on the reasons why we serve podcasts with Niles Gooding. You should check that podcast out. It's really good. And I reached, I was actually, I was on an episode of that, and I reached out to Niles, um, the host, and I said, listen, I'd really like to speak to this guy, Charlie Tusis. He seems like a great storyteller, and I'm fascinated with Chicago and the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago mob. Reached out to Charlie. It's so funny because you reach out to people and they never get back to you. It's either they're busy or they're like, I don't want to do this. Charlie got back to me like within an hour, and you know, we hit it off immediately on the phone. He was nice enough to come on and boy, I, you know, that guy can just tell story after story. And a bunch of you have reached out to me through the comments section and said, you know, can you have him back for a second episode? I'm going to do that if if he's cooperative and he wants to do that. So hopefully we'll have Charlie on again. So we're going to get to the news, and uh, I got a couple, I got a couple of really wild stories, but this one's really sad. This came out the other day. An explosive verdict was reached Wednesday night in the slaying of hero NYPD cop Jonathan Diller, with the jury acquitting the shooter of the top charge of first-degree murder before settling on manslaughter. Guy Rivera, 36 years old, who fairly shot the officer and a married dad outside a cell phone store in Queens two years ago, was convicted of all the lesser charges, including aggravated manslaughter, attempted murder of Diller's partner, and weapons raps. Cops were investigating a suspicious vehicle when Rivera shot Diller and pointed a gun at the sergeant's chest when another officer at the scene shot and wounded the goon, authorities said, with the drama caught on heart-stopping body cam footage. The scumbag Rivera, a career criminal, had 21 prior arrests. This is what this tells me about New York City. I could see this happening in the Bronx. I could certainly see it happening in Brooklyn, where the DAs are not the greatest. They're almost like they took the job. It's like they've been dropped in behind enemy lines, and it's their job to sabotage the criminal justice system. The judges are kind of shitty in those boroughs. But Queens and Manhattan was the gold standard. I always found the DAs and judges a cut above. I also found the jury pool during my time in Queens was working people, you know, wanted to do the right thing. This sends a message to the NYPD and the city. You know, they're finished. I mean, you've got a this scumbag kills this cop. It's on body cam footage. And I know his defense attorney tried to rise the defense that they were bothering him and, you know, something maybe with police corruption. It was a car stop. The car was a suspicious vehicle. They just rolled up, they were asking for their license and registration, and this thing unfolded. And there's body cam footage. There's no he said, she said, you can see it. So for a jury to view all this and then turn around and say, Slaughter, we don't really think he was trying to kill. Listen, you point a gun at a cop, you're trying to kill the cop. So it's sad. Um, you know, this cop's widow and his kid, and it's just New York City is done. Well, here's some good news. The man convicted in the fatal shooting of NYPD police officer Gerald Carter in West Brighton in 1998 has died. Shatiq Johnson, 45 years old, who was serving at a sentence of 25 years to life at Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, died on April 7th, according to New York State Department of Corrections. On December 13, 1999, Johnson was sentenced to a top count of second-degree murder in connection with the slang. A jury determined Johnson, then 17 years old, shot Carter, 28 years old in the head, while the officer was seated in a marked police van in the courtyard of the West Brighton houses on July 26, 1998. The officer died five days later. Yeah, you're not going to get the greatest of medical care. They're not saying what the cause of death is. I mean, could it be a heart attack? I mean, he's still a young guy, could be an overdose. I mean, the amount of drugs in the New York State correctional facilities, so it quite possibly could be a drug, but I don't know that to be true. I'm just I'm just guessing. A rogue Brooklyn driver rammed two cop cars and struck an on foot officer while fleeing a traffic stop over the weekend, according to authorities. Police had stopped the motorists in Williamsburg around 8 p.m. Saturday, Saturday for mismatched license plates and excessive window tints, law enforcement said. When the cops approached the man's white 2018 Infinity Q five zero S at the intersection of wallabout and Broadway, he hit the accelerator, smashing into two cop cars. The suspect then reversed and nailed the leg of an officer standing outside one of the cruisers. After striking the officer, the perps sped off a wallabout. NYPD officials said he's still in the wind. He has a female passenger, but she's not wanted by the police, authorities said. The officer was taken by EMS to Kings County Hospital Center where he's listed in stable condition. Again, no one respects the police. Even if they catch this guy, he's gonna get a sweetheart deal. And the female passenger is a witness. Yeah, cop just trying to do his job. What they're probably gonna I don't know if this was a temporary license plate, but it says mismatch license plates. Chances are they're gonna do what's called a summons check to determine where that car was getting tickets. He's probably ditched the plates by now, but the car is probably still out there. So, you know, just because he doesn't have the plate on there, I would go to that neighborhood and look for that car. Gilgo Beach serial keller, Rick Schumerman, admitted Wednesday that he strangled and dismembered at least eight sex workers and dumped their remains along the desolate stretches of Long Island. The Manhattan architect in Massapeka Park, Schlubb's chilling guilty plea includes the slayings of seven women he had been charged with killing since 1993, and a newly eighth victim linked to him. Victim's relatives gassed in Suffolk County court as a notorious killer repeatedly answered strangulation when asked how he murdered each of the women. He appeared calm and even glib as he rattled off the horrors at times, appearing to hold back a smirk. Human also confessed that he dismembered the women and tied them in burlap, bringing his daughter Victoria to tears inside the Riverhead courtroom. Human lawyer Michael Brown said his client's decision to finally admit the murders came after two devastating rulings, allowing DNA evidence to be used and refusing to try the crime separately. Prosecutors said he killed all the women in the basement of his home. Can you imagine? This sounds like something out of silence of the lambs, which appears to be squalid conditions compared to other houses in the pristine Nassau neighborhood. Imagine living next door to this guy. His family, including his longtime wife, has claimed they had no idea what Urman was allegedly doing in his spare time. He also kept a Tinder account and buzzed prostitutes on burner phones more than 500 times. Prosecutors revealed in March. Yewman made significant searches for pornography related to bindings, torture, rape, snuff videos, crying, bruised, impaled women. All right, this guy, this this is Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. He kind of reminds me of that BTK, Born to Kill uh Killer in um in Kansas. Because you want to see a crazy video? Watch that guy. I think the guy's name is Dennis Rader or Bader. When that guy was being sentenced, he was so matter-of-fact, he was just smiling and he just went into detailed chapter and verse, like how he tortured these women. This guy kind of seems the same way. My guess is, because it was no advantage of him not to take this to trial. And a guy like this wants credit. He wants to show the world how smart he is, because that's why they said like he's got like a shit-eating grin in the courtroom. My guess, and there's no there's nothing to hold over his head. I mean, yeah, there's the death penalty on the books in the state of New York. They're never gonna use it. My guess is he took this guilty plea to spare his wife or his children of dragging through trial. I I guess they just want this to be over with. I mean, I'm they're probably gonna sell that house for whatever they can get for it and hopefully just move out of the state and be done with it. But but who knows? But I think that's why he took the case to spare his family because I think he's having too good of a time with this even after he got caught. This is for station house security cops in the NYPD. A drunken man who walked into a Brooklyn NYPD station house complaining someone was following him and stealing his mail, was arrested when officers realized he was armed with two loaded pistols and wearing bulletproof vests. Daniel Gender is charged with gun and ammunition possession, as well as unlawful wearing of body armor and possession of illegal feeding devices, two extended magazines for one of the guns. Gender, 45 years old and old enough to know better, showed up at the 75 Precinct Station House in East New York short shortly after noon on Monday and asked to speak to a detective because his mail was disappearing and feared it was being stolen. So that's why you come to a precinct, right? Armed to the teeth. He also thought he was being followed, so he's a schizophrenic. Gender, who lives a mile from the station house, was given a number to call, but a short time later he told officers at the station house he really needed to speak to someone face to face. That's when officers saw he had a gun in the holster. That's good police work. He also clad a bullet uh resistant vest under his clothes and had a second gun on him. Cops at the station house quickly moved in and arrested him. Police recovered a Ruger nine millimeter pistol with one round in the chamber and ten rounds of ammunition in the magazine. They also found a Smith and Wesson nine millimeter with one round in the chamber according to court documents. He had uh two magazines with ten bullets each. Uh review of state records show he was not licensed to carry a pistol. When further questioned, Jendis said he wore the bulletproof vest because he believed someone was following him. He also claimed he only drinks on the weekend and works as an armed security guard. He added that he was not suicidal and intended no harm. I love the NYPD, one source quoted him as saying. He was held on$10,000 bail uh during arraignment in Brooklyn. So what's gonna happen with this case? He'll probably go to jail, believing it. Well, he probably doesn't have a criminal record if who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen to this guy? But you know, here's the thing. I've seen crazy people like this before, and it's kind of hard to fathom if if you're normal. I mean, this has nothing to do with guns. I had a case. You have um the showrooms uh in Hell's Kitchen, you have the Mercedes dealership, you have the BMW dealership. I mean, these are huge buildings, huge showrooms. And there was a guy that was fascinated with BMW. He's probably like a young black kid, probably about 24, 25 years old, didn't own a car, but was fascinated. And he would go in there every day and hang around and lift things. And they kind of suspected that he was stealing shit, but they really couldn't put their finger on it, and they kind of chased him out of there a couple of times. Well, what he would do is he kept coming back. He got his hands on a couple of the keys, went into the garage area, and stole a couple of the cars. And he was driving them around his neighborhood. And I we took a 61, uh, a complaint report for him stealing one of the one of the BMWs. We had surveillance footage of him coming in, the keys, him getting it right. We leave. And about we went to get lunch, we were in Midtown, and about, I don't know, 45 minutes later, my cell phone rings, like, he's here. So me and another detective run back to the uh BMW dealership. He's in there and he's looking for another set of keys. Like, what is he? He's not a professional car thief. It just he just would steal these cars, take them back to his block, park them in the street, come back and get another. He just wanted to be seen in those cars. He he just had this thing. And when we a lot we arrested him, I thought he was gonna fight. Like he really, he looked like that fight or flight thing was gonna kick in. And he had all this BMW memorabilia on him. He had a BMW keychain, which he probably stole from there. And the whole time, like I really thought he was gonna become violent. And his mother came to the station house and she explained to us, now he's on meds and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he had prescription medication, and it was the craziest thing. I had never seen this before. And the mother gave him his meds, and about a half hour later, he was like a docile 12-year-old boy. I'd never seen anything like that before. But anyway, you get these people that get things in their heads that they want to be a part of something. And apparently, this guy with all these guns and bulletproof vest and stuff. I mean, I hope he wasn't going to the precinct to hurt a cop, but he just might be nuts and and and he feels secure, armed to the teeth, walking around a police station, and maybe in his mind, this is the closest I'm gonna ever gonna get to doing this sort of thing. But it's scary because what if he snapped? He could have hurt a lot of people. An NYPD officer fatally shot a man on the Bronx Thursday morning, police said. It happened about 6 45 a.m. in an apartment on Willis Avenue between Brooklyn Boulevard and East 132nd Street. Police officers said Bronx Warren Squad was trying to apprehend Lucent Colon, 44 years old, as there was a warrant out for Colon for failing to meet his reporting requirements as a sex offender, according to the NYPD. An official said Colon was on parole for a 2013 murder and is in a sex and is a sex offender due to a 1997 rape, which he was previously arrested for attempted murder in 1995. Warrant squad officers were greeted at the Willis A Warrant Squad officers were greeted at the Willis Avenue apartment by a woman who let them in. When they entered the apartment, they encountered Colon with what appeared to be a firearm in his hand. The officers tried to talk to Colon, demanding he show him his hands, and he told them, I have a gun. During this verbal inter interaction, which lasted approximately a minute and a half, officers showed extreme restraint and truly attempted to de-escalate the situation. NYPD Deputy Chief John Wilson said, after failing to comply to multiple requests, one of the officers discharges firearm and strikes the subject. Colin was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. That turned out all right. This story I covered in late February, early March. I don't know if you guys remember it. There was a retired NYPD cop who was suspected of killing his parents. There's a lot more to this now. Investigators have formally charged a former New York City police officer with killing his parents and are releasing new details about the potential motive. When officers first responded to a request for a welfare check on the victims, Philip Rappeci Jr. was at the scene. Body cam video recorded by officers show Rapici Jr. approaching his parents' apartment, then turning around after seeing police officers had arrived. Rapici Jr. walks away from the apartment, gets into his car, and drives away in the video. A maintenance worker who told officers he was asked to do a welfare check, knocked on the door, got no answer. When he tried to open the apartment door with his keys, a man claiming to be the owner told him to leave and was very confrontational. He must have picked them up. Police said that when a search warrant was served on Rapici Jr.'s car, they found a blue tote with a box of latex gloves and a plastic bag with six spent shells casing. Those casings, detectives noted, had what looked like brain matter on them. Rappeaches Jr. has pled not guilty to fleeing and eluding charges in Indian County. He has not yet entered a plea to a murder charge out of St. Lucie County. So this is how the whole thing unraveled. Investigators made contact with Rappeach's daughter, who was the one who initially requested the welfare check. She told the police that her brother had violent tendencies and would often argue with the parents who were in the process of buying another property because they could no longer tolerate living with their middle-aged son. The woman told officers that her parents intended to let Rapici have the property and they would move to a new location. She further said she suspected that he'd been abusing his parents for some time, and her mother once confided to the daughter that Rappeci Jr. had placed his hands around her neck and shoved her face into a mirror. The Rappeci's daughter testified as to her brother having no current job, collecting a pension from the NYPD where he used to work as a police officer. She also noted that he had recently borrowed$200,000 from their parents and said that Philip was motivated by money and always played the victim, mental health issues. She further hypothesized to investigate it. Like I said, I covered this a couple of weeks ago. And the body cam, there's two body cam footages. So the one that I that I I linked to the first story was cops find the bodies. They put out a bolo, that's what they call it here in Florida, be on the lookout. I guess probably with plate readers, they were able to track him down and they go to pull him over. He doesn't stop. They pit maneuver him, and then he gets out of the car and he seems out of it. I don't know if he's acting or he's stoned or on meds, but he looked out of it and he's like, what, what? You know, and they throw him in cuffs and shove him in a radio car. So I guess they had enough, they charged him with like reckless endangerment and fleeing and everything, but they didn't hit him with the murder charge and they posted him on very high bail. Now that they've got all their ducks in the row and they know more about the crime scene and everything, and witnesses and other body cam footage. Now the other shoe drop. Now they're charging him with the murder of his parents. The second body cam footage, if I can find it and I'll link it to this episode, it's the 911 call, right? So you see the cop rolling up to the apartments, and you see him, and he just kind of like barely glances at the police car, and he just kind of nice, calm, and cool, gets into his car, gets in it, and I guess the cop now is going upstairs to find out what happened. And then you see, like at the gate, he pulls out. Several since I did this story a couple of months, uh couple of weeks ago, a couple of retired guys have reached out to me on social media and they said this guy, Philip Rappeachie, was a real hothead. It didn't take much that he would want to swing with you, you know, was looking to get into a fist fight. More than one person has gotten back to me and said, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was he was always a loose canon. I just can't, I mean, I loved my parents. I just can't imagine. You know, when your parents get older, they're vulnerable, and now he's living with them. Like, can you imagine like a 50-something-year-old man living with his parents? I get it. You know, not everyone's got the greatest living situation, but to treat them so poorly, and then they're gonna move out of their house just to get away from you. And oh, by the way, he borrowed$200,000 from his parents. I mean, his parents weren't wealthy people. His father was a retired cop. He was in his eighties. I mean, you know, how much time left do your parents have in their a in their eighties? You should have been enjoying your time with them. And, you know, unfortunately, this son of a bitch has been charged with killing his parents. Doesn't look good for him. I th I think I read somewhere like I think they found the gun. The murder weapon, I think was in his car, I'm pretty sure. So that's that with him. So I try to answer your questions in in the comments section, but someone had asked me to go into detail on what kind of weapons that I had during my NYPD career, and guys that came on the job around the time I did. So in the police academy, you get a nightstick, and it's like balsa wood. It's a really light wood nightstick. And probably the first thing every rookie cop does is when he gets to the station house, you get rid of that shit. It goes in the garage and you go out and you buy a Coca-Bola, it's a heavier wood nightstick. The other thing they gave us was this long rubber thing called a rubber billy. It looked like a dildo. You were supposed to keep that in your back pocket. In my 20 years in the NYPD, I never saw a cop carrying one. Now I'm sure someone's gonna come out of the woodwork and go, oh, yeah, there was a guy in my brainstate that used to carry one of those. It's the same as the fur hats. You would see that with the traffic guys in Manhattan a lot of times. They look like the police chief in Fargo with the fur hat. You were allowed to wear that. And another thing that you would see with cops would get rid of is the old duty jackets had this blue fur collar. The first thing you did was zip that fucking thing off. That went in the garbage, except the Hummer, and I've gone into great detail. I had a sergeant that had a had like Tourette's. And you every time he would say something, he would hum. What other weapons? So I was when I got out of police academy, I was the first class with the uh hammerless firearm. It was a Smith and Weston, I think six six nine oh six stainless steel, had uh no hammer, and then in nineteen ninety. 1995. We went to the nine millimeters. I got one of those. The old timers on the midnights, you would see weapons. You would see the slapper, which is not authorized. And if you got caught using it, they'd look to throw you in jail. But a lot of the old timers would carry uh, it was called the JP short slugger. It was a slapper. It was like it was like a piece of leather. You put your hand through it, and it had like a piece of lead sewn into leather. And then that was the JP short slugger. And then they made the JP long slugger, which was like this long. You could do some serious damage with that. And I only saw this once. I saw a guy in the 4.6 with leather gloves, with iron or lead filings sewn into the knuckles. That's another thing. God forbid you use that. You got caught with that, they'd be looking to throw you in jail. So that's the weapons that I saw. I mean, I never worked in a specialized unit where, you know, emergency service, where those guys carried fully automatic weapons and AR-15s and everything. You know, that's basically what the patrol guys and guys in the detective unit would carry. 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Take care.