Title: Heeled (Part Two)
Author: Walt
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Please be aware there are references here to prior story suggestions of mine, many of which are on other sites. If you want to see the earlier story suggestions, E-mail me privately and I'll be happy to provide the links for such stories.
Disclaimers and set-up: See Part One
After finding out about the blood, they are with M.E. Rogers, who tells the detectives, "Your victim was stabbed to death, but I seriously doubt he was stabbed by any normal knife." While showing where on the body and using X-Rays, Rogers tells them "It looks like some object did her in, one that perhaps was very spikey and considerably long. since whatever he was stabbed with also punctured his lung. It was a miracle he made it two blocks to 23rd street in his condition."
"I wonder what it could be?", Ed would say as The Detectives then go back to the crime scene again, where they encounter the manager (Jack Farmer) who had been on duty the night before, who seeked them out this time with their talking outside the club.
Jack said to the detectives: "I didn't think anything of it last night, but before everything happened, there was this woman with very darkish, reddish hair that made her look very 'sixties-ish' who seemed to be walking around the area for a while like she was waiting for someone. I didn't try to ask her anything because she looked very nervous, constantly slipping her shoes on and off in a way that said she was extremely anxious, though that could also have been because they were killing her feet, as they looked like they were 4-5 inch heels that were red, and she was also wearing a bright red suit. It was not long before Quinones left that I saw her. Perhaps she can tell you what happened if you could find her."
Joe and Ed call in a sketch artists to have Jack make a description of the woman he saw, with Joe startled when he saw the description. Ed would ask why, with Joe saying,"That's the wife of the man who was killed when Quinones threw the ball at the game in Miami last year!"
"Are you kidding?!", asked Ed, with Joe replying with a resounding "No! That's the woman who lost her husband that night.I can call my old partner to confirm."
Joe then immediately called his retired partner who at that game in Miami a year earlier to. He told him her name was Christine Carlesimo, and it was her husband John who was killed when Quinones threw the ball, also noting to Joe on the phone that about two months after the incident, Christine also suffered a miscarriage that from he read was caused by stress the of losing her husband.
"You think she did it?", asked Ed, with Joe replying, "Probably."
Joe's thoughts were confirmed when talking with three other witnesses, two of whom were strippers at the club.
The first witness said to the Detectives, "There was a woman with Auburn-ish hair who was at different times right next to the club or in the park across the street, and she looked very nervous. She had on a red skirt suit and pumps that appeared to have a very high heel that she was having trouble walking in, one like I often wear at work. She was constantly playing with them from what I saw." The second witness would basically say the same thing.
The third witness, a much older man named Ken Clarke then told the detectives also had the same description of the woman as the other witness, then saying "I was walking along this block from 11th avevnue, crossing to head for the park with my dog when that woman nearly ran over me. She looked very upset, I thought perhaps she was attacked and escaped the way she was running in the heels she was wearing, running up 11th avenue."
After letting the witness go, Ed is now convinced Christine is the killer of Ray Quinones. The two are wondering if she is even still in New York and were about to put out an all-points bulletin to check all ways out of New York when they get word of a woman matching Christine's description walking around aimlessly in a deserted part of Central Park. When they get to that part of the park, the Detectives see a woman still in the same suit as decribed by the various witnesses while barefoot, with her shoes not far away. The Detectives insist on the shoes being tested as both think they may have been the murder weapon(s), with while Forensic Detectivbes did that Christine going to her knees and screaming "Why did he have to kill my husband?", with her then sobbing as the Detectives then arrest Christine.
At the Precint, Christine, still wearing the suit remained silent as Serena looked from outside the interrogation room, waiting for both her attorney and brother to show up, asking The Detectives: "Is she the one who's husband died at the hands of our victim last year in Miami?"
"More of less", Ed awnsered, then asking Serena "You know about that incident?", who then replied, "How can I forget. That was a huge sports and even news story last year, and I know she and her late husband's family have lawsuits all over the place."
"That's right!", then said Christine's defense attorney Gary Feldman, Jr., who came in along with Christine's father and brother, Steve Martino Sr. and Jr., who also brough Christine a pair of shoes to wear as she was still barefoot with the pair she had been wearing still being tested.to see if blood was on them. Gary then said to Serena before they went into the interrogation room, "I've been helping my client with her civil suits as well before that." With Christine refusing to talk other than to say she would not take a plea bargain, she is arraigned a short while later on a charge of second degree murder in the death of Ray Quinones. She is released on $250,000 bail. In the meantime, forensic evidence comes back on the pumps that Christine had been wearing. Those were determined to be the murder weapons with a considerable amount of dried blood on both heels and the bottom of both shoes that matched that of Ray and the crime scene, even if there was dirt mixed in with the blood from Central Park.
"I can fully understand her wanting to take her chances with a jury. I might do the same thing with my daughter under those circumstances", Arthur said to Jack and Serena in Jack's Office at Hogan Place.
Jack replied, "But you know she did kill him, Arthur", with Arthur replying "Yes, I know Jack, and that's why since she won't take a deal, we have to prosecute this. While her situation is obviously tragic, it doesn't give her the right to kill Mr. Quinones, however, even if she thought she had every right to given the nightmare she's been under."
Serena would then chime in by saying "Hello? We are dealing with a woman who suffered both the loss of her husband and her baby. As one who suffered a miscarriage when I was at Harvard, I know how I felt when that happened to me. Add to that her miscarriage, and I'm honesty surprised she didn't try to kill herself."
Jack then said to Serena,"You would see her point. I had forgotten you suffered a miscarriage, albeit under much different circumstances", with Serena replying "One I had to testify to in court nearly two years ago in that other case before Sue Ellen Gold had that big scare last year that really changed her", with Arthur in turn replying, "A big scare indeed. I know she made up with you after Rob Callahan died and apologized for what she put you through a year earlier."
"She did. That case really scared her, much like Jessica Sheets last year with that maniac cab driver before Tim Schwimmer took over and went to jail for his actions on that case, though even before that, she had thought long and hard about it after my ex-husband Doug was killed", then said Serena.
"True, but what that have to do with this case?", Arthur then asked.
Serena then laid a bombshell on Jack and Arthur: "Well, I want off this case because I can't wholeheartedly prosecute her. She's been under too much hell for me to do it."
"What?", asked Jack, with Serena replying "You heard me! I will not prosecute someone who in my opinion was driven to what she did under the circumstances she was. The people who really deserved to be prosecuted for Ray Quinones' death are the two idiots in Miami last year who looked like they were going to go after him there, causing him to throw the ball that killed John Carlesimo."
Arthur then said to Serena. "You're sounding like Jane Russo blaiming her mother for what happened to her when Helen Flowers pushed her earlier this year."
Serena replied by saying in a raised voice: "Except in this case, it's clearly obvious to me that Christine Carlesimo was driven to killing Ray Quinones after she first lost her husband and suffering a miscarriage as a result of the stress of that! It's going to be near-impossible to get a guilty verdict!"
"You're sounding like you're doing my job, Serena", then said Gary as he walked into Jack's Office, with Serena then looking quite red-faced, not knowing that Gary was there and walking out as did Arthur. After that, Gary said to Jack, "My Client wants her day in court. She's been an emotional wreck for a year because of what Quinones did. Not only that, with Serena saying what she did as I was walking in, I can call her as a witness that in her opinion this will be a tough case to win."
Jack replied to Gary: "Except that Ray Quinones had his parents and so forth who probably all feel that in spite of what happened to your client, she should still be punished for killing Mr. Quinones."
"And how many of them had their husband killed by a pitcher who threw a ball into the stands at 100 miles an hour?", Asked Gary, with Jack then silent before Gary said,"Thought so. Have your psych expert to her. She'll say the truth!", with Jack agreeing to that. Right after that, Jack and Arthur tell Serena she can take herself off this trial, with Jack deciding he would do this case without a second chair.
A short while later, Christine is talking to Elizabeth Olivet, talking about what happened.
"It was a typically hot night in Miami when our team played the Houston team last year. They were in first place in the Central Division, our team was leading the wild card race and tied for the lead in the Eastern Division. John and I had been looking forward to that series because we knew there was a good chance of the teams meeting again in the playoffs. The atmosphere was electric, everything was in place, and our team took a big lead early on. Then, a couple of louts decided to insult the pitchers of that other team, and they were the ones who were going after him when he threw the ball that killed my husband", with Christine breaking down and crying some after that before composing herself.
Elizabeth would reply once Christine composed herself: "Obviously, you took your husband's death very hard, and to have a miscarriage on top of that."
Christine would reply: "Absolutely. The worst part is, John never even got to find out I was pregnant, as I didn't know until about a week after the funeral when I suddenly was feeling sick. That overwhelmed me to the point where two months later, I nearly died after being rushed to the hospital and suffered a miscarriage. I also saw how much it was hurting my mother and father-in-law, who were helping me as best they could as well as my own parents. They gave me a lot of support, but you could see the pain they were feeling."
"And it was that bad?", asked Elizabeth, with Christine replying, "It still is that bad!", with her stopping to wipe some tears before continuing by saying, "The lives of all of us were turned upside down thanks to those two idiots who went after that bastard who then didn't show enough restraint by taking a ball and throwing it at them, only it instead missed them and killed my husband. I know what I did was wrong, but I had been driven to it by what he did and all the pain it caused not only me, but both my family and John's family. I've talked with psychologists about this, and while they have been encouraging, I'm still finding myself depressed most of the time. All I could think about when I finally saw him coming out of that strip club was for him to get what he deserved, 'an eye for an eye.' I 'unintentionally' bumped into him on his side when he came out alone and no one was looking, knocked him into a wall, and then took off my shoes and drove the heels of them right into his stomach."
The conversation basically continued along those lines, with Elizabeth then telling Jack afterwards she was soundly convinced that Christine had been suffering from extreme emotional trauma as a result.
"There is no way under normal circumstances that Christine Carlesimo would have murdered Ray Quinones. If Quinones had not thrown that ball into the stands last year, I'm convinced everything would have been normal", said Elizabeth to Jack. Jack replied by saying, "But things were not normal. Christine Carlesimo used the heels of her shoes to murder Ray Quinones. His family is now suffering thanks to what Ms. Carlesimo did."
"That may be true, but you are going to have an extremely difficult time at trial convicting her, especially since I'm aware you're doing this one without Serena", Elizabeth then said to Jack, which Jack acknowledged before Elizabeth left.
(continued in part three)
Author: Walt
Feedback: Of Course.
Please be aware there are references here to prior story suggestions of mine, many of which are on other sites. If you want to see the earlier story suggestions, E-mail me privately and I'll be happy to provide the links for such stories.
Disclaimers and set-up: See Part One
After finding out about the blood, they are with M.E. Rogers, who tells the detectives, "Your victim was stabbed to death, but I seriously doubt he was stabbed by any normal knife." While showing where on the body and using X-Rays, Rogers tells them "It looks like some object did her in, one that perhaps was very spikey and considerably long. since whatever he was stabbed with also punctured his lung. It was a miracle he made it two blocks to 23rd street in his condition."
"I wonder what it could be?", Ed would say as The Detectives then go back to the crime scene again, where they encounter the manager (Jack Farmer) who had been on duty the night before, who seeked them out this time with their talking outside the club.
Jack said to the detectives: "I didn't think anything of it last night, but before everything happened, there was this woman with very darkish, reddish hair that made her look very 'sixties-ish' who seemed to be walking around the area for a while like she was waiting for someone. I didn't try to ask her anything because she looked very nervous, constantly slipping her shoes on and off in a way that said she was extremely anxious, though that could also have been because they were killing her feet, as they looked like they were 4-5 inch heels that were red, and she was also wearing a bright red suit. It was not long before Quinones left that I saw her. Perhaps she can tell you what happened if you could find her."
Joe and Ed call in a sketch artists to have Jack make a description of the woman he saw, with Joe startled when he saw the description. Ed would ask why, with Joe saying,"That's the wife of the man who was killed when Quinones threw the ball at the game in Miami last year!"
"Are you kidding?!", asked Ed, with Joe replying with a resounding "No! That's the woman who lost her husband that night.I can call my old partner to confirm."
Joe then immediately called his retired partner who at that game in Miami a year earlier to. He told him her name was Christine Carlesimo, and it was her husband John who was killed when Quinones threw the ball, also noting to Joe on the phone that about two months after the incident, Christine also suffered a miscarriage that from he read was caused by stress the of losing her husband.
"You think she did it?", asked Ed, with Joe replying, "Probably."
Joe's thoughts were confirmed when talking with three other witnesses, two of whom were strippers at the club.
The first witness said to the Detectives, "There was a woman with Auburn-ish hair who was at different times right next to the club or in the park across the street, and she looked very nervous. She had on a red skirt suit and pumps that appeared to have a very high heel that she was having trouble walking in, one like I often wear at work. She was constantly playing with them from what I saw." The second witness would basically say the same thing.
The third witness, a much older man named Ken Clarke then told the detectives also had the same description of the woman as the other witness, then saying "I was walking along this block from 11th avevnue, crossing to head for the park with my dog when that woman nearly ran over me. She looked very upset, I thought perhaps she was attacked and escaped the way she was running in the heels she was wearing, running up 11th avenue."
After letting the witness go, Ed is now convinced Christine is the killer of Ray Quinones. The two are wondering if she is even still in New York and were about to put out an all-points bulletin to check all ways out of New York when they get word of a woman matching Christine's description walking around aimlessly in a deserted part of Central Park. When they get to that part of the park, the Detectives see a woman still in the same suit as decribed by the various witnesses while barefoot, with her shoes not far away. The Detectives insist on the shoes being tested as both think they may have been the murder weapon(s), with while Forensic Detectivbes did that Christine going to her knees and screaming "Why did he have to kill my husband?", with her then sobbing as the Detectives then arrest Christine.
At the Precint, Christine, still wearing the suit remained silent as Serena looked from outside the interrogation room, waiting for both her attorney and brother to show up, asking The Detectives: "Is she the one who's husband died at the hands of our victim last year in Miami?"
"More of less", Ed awnsered, then asking Serena "You know about that incident?", who then replied, "How can I forget. That was a huge sports and even news story last year, and I know she and her late husband's family have lawsuits all over the place."
"That's right!", then said Christine's defense attorney Gary Feldman, Jr., who came in along with Christine's father and brother, Steve Martino Sr. and Jr., who also brough Christine a pair of shoes to wear as she was still barefoot with the pair she had been wearing still being tested.to see if blood was on them. Gary then said to Serena before they went into the interrogation room, "I've been helping my client with her civil suits as well before that." With Christine refusing to talk other than to say she would not take a plea bargain, she is arraigned a short while later on a charge of second degree murder in the death of Ray Quinones. She is released on $250,000 bail. In the meantime, forensic evidence comes back on the pumps that Christine had been wearing. Those were determined to be the murder weapons with a considerable amount of dried blood on both heels and the bottom of both shoes that matched that of Ray and the crime scene, even if there was dirt mixed in with the blood from Central Park.
"I can fully understand her wanting to take her chances with a jury. I might do the same thing with my daughter under those circumstances", Arthur said to Jack and Serena in Jack's Office at Hogan Place.
Jack replied, "But you know she did kill him, Arthur", with Arthur replying "Yes, I know Jack, and that's why since she won't take a deal, we have to prosecute this. While her situation is obviously tragic, it doesn't give her the right to kill Mr. Quinones, however, even if she thought she had every right to given the nightmare she's been under."
Serena would then chime in by saying "Hello? We are dealing with a woman who suffered both the loss of her husband and her baby. As one who suffered a miscarriage when I was at Harvard, I know how I felt when that happened to me. Add to that her miscarriage, and I'm honesty surprised she didn't try to kill herself."
Jack then said to Serena,"You would see her point. I had forgotten you suffered a miscarriage, albeit under much different circumstances", with Serena replying "One I had to testify to in court nearly two years ago in that other case before Sue Ellen Gold had that big scare last year that really changed her", with Arthur in turn replying, "A big scare indeed. I know she made up with you after Rob Callahan died and apologized for what she put you through a year earlier."
"She did. That case really scared her, much like Jessica Sheets last year with that maniac cab driver before Tim Schwimmer took over and went to jail for his actions on that case, though even before that, she had thought long and hard about it after my ex-husband Doug was killed", then said Serena.
"True, but what that have to do with this case?", Arthur then asked.
Serena then laid a bombshell on Jack and Arthur: "Well, I want off this case because I can't wholeheartedly prosecute her. She's been under too much hell for me to do it."
"What?", asked Jack, with Serena replying "You heard me! I will not prosecute someone who in my opinion was driven to what she did under the circumstances she was. The people who really deserved to be prosecuted for Ray Quinones' death are the two idiots in Miami last year who looked like they were going to go after him there, causing him to throw the ball that killed John Carlesimo."
Arthur then said to Serena. "You're sounding like Jane Russo blaiming her mother for what happened to her when Helen Flowers pushed her earlier this year."
Serena replied by saying in a raised voice: "Except in this case, it's clearly obvious to me that Christine Carlesimo was driven to killing Ray Quinones after she first lost her husband and suffering a miscarriage as a result of the stress of that! It's going to be near-impossible to get a guilty verdict!"
"You're sounding like you're doing my job, Serena", then said Gary as he walked into Jack's Office, with Serena then looking quite red-faced, not knowing that Gary was there and walking out as did Arthur. After that, Gary said to Jack, "My Client wants her day in court. She's been an emotional wreck for a year because of what Quinones did. Not only that, with Serena saying what she did as I was walking in, I can call her as a witness that in her opinion this will be a tough case to win."
Jack replied to Gary: "Except that Ray Quinones had his parents and so forth who probably all feel that in spite of what happened to your client, she should still be punished for killing Mr. Quinones."
"And how many of them had their husband killed by a pitcher who threw a ball into the stands at 100 miles an hour?", Asked Gary, with Jack then silent before Gary said,"Thought so. Have your psych expert to her. She'll say the truth!", with Jack agreeing to that. Right after that, Jack and Arthur tell Serena she can take herself off this trial, with Jack deciding he would do this case without a second chair.
A short while later, Christine is talking to Elizabeth Olivet, talking about what happened.
"It was a typically hot night in Miami when our team played the Houston team last year. They were in first place in the Central Division, our team was leading the wild card race and tied for the lead in the Eastern Division. John and I had been looking forward to that series because we knew there was a good chance of the teams meeting again in the playoffs. The atmosphere was electric, everything was in place, and our team took a big lead early on. Then, a couple of louts decided to insult the pitchers of that other team, and they were the ones who were going after him when he threw the ball that killed my husband", with Christine breaking down and crying some after that before composing herself.
Elizabeth would reply once Christine composed herself: "Obviously, you took your husband's death very hard, and to have a miscarriage on top of that."
Christine would reply: "Absolutely. The worst part is, John never even got to find out I was pregnant, as I didn't know until about a week after the funeral when I suddenly was feeling sick. That overwhelmed me to the point where two months later, I nearly died after being rushed to the hospital and suffered a miscarriage. I also saw how much it was hurting my mother and father-in-law, who were helping me as best they could as well as my own parents. They gave me a lot of support, but you could see the pain they were feeling."
"And it was that bad?", asked Elizabeth, with Christine replying, "It still is that bad!", with her stopping to wipe some tears before continuing by saying, "The lives of all of us were turned upside down thanks to those two idiots who went after that bastard who then didn't show enough restraint by taking a ball and throwing it at them, only it instead missed them and killed my husband. I know what I did was wrong, but I had been driven to it by what he did and all the pain it caused not only me, but both my family and John's family. I've talked with psychologists about this, and while they have been encouraging, I'm still finding myself depressed most of the time. All I could think about when I finally saw him coming out of that strip club was for him to get what he deserved, 'an eye for an eye.' I 'unintentionally' bumped into him on his side when he came out alone and no one was looking, knocked him into a wall, and then took off my shoes and drove the heels of them right into his stomach."
The conversation basically continued along those lines, with Elizabeth then telling Jack afterwards she was soundly convinced that Christine had been suffering from extreme emotional trauma as a result.
"There is no way under normal circumstances that Christine Carlesimo would have murdered Ray Quinones. If Quinones had not thrown that ball into the stands last year, I'm convinced everything would have been normal", said Elizabeth to Jack. Jack replied by saying, "But things were not normal. Christine Carlesimo used the heels of her shoes to murder Ray Quinones. His family is now suffering thanks to what Ms. Carlesimo did."
"That may be true, but you are going to have an extremely difficult time at trial convicting her, especially since I'm aware you're doing this one without Serena", Elizabeth then said to Jack, which Jack acknowledged before Elizabeth left.
(continued in part three)