Joey Comunale's Murder Case

Gemma is the murder equivalent of OJ being the school admissions equivalent. Except Gemma's going to jail. Both were on the peripheral. Both claimed they were either sleeping or didn't know anything. I think Gemma might have been scared for his life and OJ knew everything.

Tonight at 9:00 pm (Saturday, 4/20/19) CBS is rerunning their 48 Hours episode about the case.

How much time did Dilione get?

Dilione took a plea deal for first degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 23 years. Gemma plead to aiding in the coverup and received 6 months. The other two both testified that Gemma was passed out during the murder and hadn't participated in that.

At his sentencing, Dilione tried to pull out of his plea deal and go to trial, but the judge refused to allow it and sentenced him anyway.

Bump to say again that at 9:00 pm (Saturday, 4/20/19) CBS is rerunning their 48 Hours episode about the case.

Final bump. The rerun of the 48 Hours episode about Joey's murder starts now on CBS.

Have any toxicology or medical reports come out?

So how is the true crime TV movie of the week about this case coming?

Another murder associated with this case? Vanity Fair says so. May 2020 issue.

Link R10.

[quote] Another murder associated with this case? Vanity Fair says so. May 2020 issue.

Why wouldn't you link to it? Idiot.

Link or it didn't happen.

Here's the link.

Damn! We've been tracking this story for YEARS.

As you say R15, for years. And yet we know very little about it. Weren't all the toxicology reports withheld because of the guilty pleas?

This is what happens when an old monied gay gets mezmerized by young broke male prostitute. Brings him to the big city, sets him up in a fin apartment, tryx to introduce him to the finer things in life....lol

I don't think Jeffrey Rackover can be described as old money, but I guess I get your drift R17.

Linked is another recent report. 10 days old.

so......"what really happened?" too lazy to read article

I don't see really how the death of Kyle really means anything to the story. He overdosed.

Vanity Fair is slipping. Found a typo/omission in a huge pull quote. Unless JR really said “All did was go out and chase girls”...

That apartment wasn’t “posh”. It’s NOT “Sutton Place”, except by the broadest definition. It’s a standard-issue building and apartment. I live in the same level of “luxury”, with countless other middle-class Manhattanites.

R21 In the dnyuz article is says, "There are all these stories about him and I, and all this gay-lover shit. All I did was go out and chase girls.” Has Vanity Fair lifted this straight out of dnyuz, and added some typos?

With all this activity I was hoping he got released early and was on the market for another sugar daddy.

So butch: "Jimmy covered the walls in chocolate-brown suede, accented the décor with Louis Vuitton trunks and cashmere throws"

[quote] That apartment wasn’t “posh”. It’s NOT “Sutton Place”, except by the broadest definition. It’s a standard-issue building and apartment. I live in the same level of “luxury”, with countless other middle-class Manhattanites.

This kind of real “fake news” has been going around for ages. Anyone who is familiar with details of a case the media gets hold of soon realizes how ridiculously sexed up their reportage is.

A guy gets killed in Central Park. His mother lived in my Mitchell Lama NY-subsided middle class housing project which was, at that time, in a dicey area just below Harlem. You didn't do your grocery shopping or slip out for a pack of cigarettes after dark in those days. We had a security guard driving around the project on a cushman at night.

The dead guy once held a white collar job. So he was roughly portrayed as “the victim, who had worked in the world of high finance before losing his job, lived with his mother in a posh Upper East Side highrise.”

He lost his long-ago job because he was a non-functioning alcoholic with other mental problems. He was homeless. He occasionally showed up at his mother’s 1 bedroom apartment in a middle class housing project for a shower. But the media was determined to play the story as a couple of teen satanists who ritualistically murdered a clean-living, wealthy man who was temporarily in-between jobs in the financial sector, and this required him to live with his high society mother in the lap of luxury.

That’s just one of the stories I personally knew about where the media played a story so it might become a “ripped from the headlines” episode of Law & Order. I’m sure everyone here has had a similar experience.

R26, which murder was this? Sorry, morbid fascination.

This happened in the story of the murder of Jennifer Levin. And countless others. I guess they frame it that way for Vanity Fair readers, to make it more exciting. These people were not high society. I’d wager that Pat Comunale was wealthier than Jeff Rackover, but they were pretty much the same: merchant class, first generation wealth, spent it differently.

And no one can convince me there wasn’t a “gay angle” here.

R23, oooh, they really are slipping. It’s probably a direct quote, but I’m too lazy (like Vanity Fair) to verify.

Thanks to r14 for the link - no snark - but that article was shoddy. It saves the Kyle story line for the end and leaves it dangling. Don’t bother tantalizing the reader with a new mystery if you don’t have the balls to investigate it. For fucks sake. There’s one NEW piece of the story and the writer neglects it.

[quote] Pat, a child of the blue-collar Bronx, made a career building successful security companies, the last of which, the largest private security distributor in the country, sold publicly in 2014 for hundreds of millions

What is a “private security distributor”? And why is it worth 100s of million$?

All of these wealthy guys are sons or grandsons of mobsters. Construction/real estate with the Kushners? A “private security distributor”? Roseanne Scotto’s son, grandson of a Gambino mobster ?

This guy jimmy is the only one who came from a non-mobster working class background.

R29, I think Comunale had a business installing security and surveillance systems. I think I read that his company had provided the video surveillance for Rackover’s very building. Of course, I don’t doubt he was “connected”. Security and surveillance seems like one of those business that’s perfect for mob dudes.

They were all well-off except for Kyle and James. Construction/security/real estate/jewelry. But apart from the so-called Sutton Place connection, they were suburban well-off; not glam. I guess VF has to glam it all up.

Both Dilione and James have appeals coming along. How does that work, given that Dilione made a deal on plea/sentence (I know he tried to withdraw it, but the judge wouldn't let him)?

What a bunch of scummy characters.