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[tybee204]

Media Links only please on this thread.

[concernedperson]

Witness said victim argued with bouncer.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187050,00.html

[PrayersForMaura]

John Jay College co-ed killed in Brooklyn (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=3944529)
7Online.com, NY - Feb 27, 2006

John Jay College student found dead in Brooklyn (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--coedkilled0227feb27,0,1707614.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork)
Newsday, NY - Feb 27, 2006

Cops Hunt For Killer Of John Jay College Student (http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=57407)
NY1, NY - Feb 27, 2006

Boston Woman Found Slain In NYC (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/consumer/7506453/detail.html)
Boston Channel.com, USA - Feb 27, 2006

Boston Woman Murdered In New York City (http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_058134742.html)
CBS4Boston, Boston - Feb 27, 2006

[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129426

picture of door to building hallway, i believe

witnesses says there was arguing

[cathieq]

St. Guillen had been been drinking earlier in the evening at another bar with friends, then went to The Falls with one of those friends, who left at some point, leaving St. Guillen alone.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-slay0308,0,3123878.story?coll=ny-nycnews-headlines
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[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129497

BOUNCER CONNECTED TO DRUG KING

http://news.bostonherald.com/

[dragonfly]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64894.htm

March 8, 2006 -- Hiring ex-con bouncer Darryl Littlejohn could cost The Falls bar its precious liquor license.
The State Liquor Authority yesterday told The Post that it has launched a probe into the popular SoHo watering hole after it surfaced that Littlejohn - a prime suspect in the sensational case of a slain grad student - was apparently illegally working at the bar.

[dragonfly]

reporter recalls interview with Darrly Littlejohn

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/397895p-337106c.html

Little did I know was that our mellow chat would be followed hours later by a tense phone call. Little did I know that he would soon be hauled in for questioning in the rape-and-murder case that's shocked the city. Little did I know that when he entered Brooklyn's 75th Precinct just hours after our final conversation that he would be carrying my business card. Little did I know that I would soon be all over TV, reliving my chilling encounter with a man at the center of a real-life "CSI" probe that's gripped people across the country.

[PrayersForMaura]

Violence haunts bar

By police accounts, one of the younger Dorrians, Danny, was managing The Falls early on the morning of Feb. 25 when Imette St. Guillen came in. She ordered a drink. She paid for that one and asked for another and paid for that as well. ...But, St. Guillen was still sipping that second drink when young Dorrian announced it was closing time. She declined to leave before she could finish what she had just bought. Danny Dorrian is said to have instructed the bouncer to escort her out. As police tell it, St. Guillen could be heard asking for her money back as bouncer Darryl Littlejohn removed her. One police official says her protests were suddenly punctuated by a whimper.

More: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/397692p-337040c.html

[strach304]

The latest new info in the ongoing investigation.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_067221521.html

[strach304]

And yet another:

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_067185439.html

[i.b.nora]

Cops link bouncer, slaying (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129652&format=&page=1)

NEW YORK - NYPD detectives have matched carpet fibers seized from the home of career criminal Darryl Littlejohn with threads recovered from the packing tape and blanket used to wrap up the face and body of rape and murder victim Imette St. Guillen of Boston, the Herald has learned.
They also plan to charge Littlejohn, who is being eyed as a serial rapist, as soon as today with the sexual assault of another woman who survived her attack and recognized Littlejohn yesterday from a photo array, sources said.

much more . . .

[strach304]

A Newer update: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/09/bar_accounts_conflicting_nyc_police_say/

A blog about the gangs in NYC with the background on Darryl Littlejohn and the gang he started with the Jamaican Queens, his druglord Fat Cat Nichols and some info on his hit-man career. The Feds tried to get him in 2002 on capital charges for gangland hits and couldn't come up with the evidence for the murder charges. It talks about the hits put out on NYC Officers.

http://gorillaconvict.com/blog/index.php?date=200510

[MrsMush99]

NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62940.htm)

March 9, 2006 -- The high-society brothers who own the bar at the center of the Imette St. Guillen murder are part of a colorful and controversial New York pub family.

The Falls owners Michael and Danny Dorrian are the grandsons of John "Red" Dorrian, a one-time IRA gunman who came here in 1921, penniless and with a price on his head.

He worked as a bootlegger in Midtown speakeasies - where his patrons included legendary columnist Walter Winchell and hard-drinking and womanizing Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Red had five kids. One of them, Jack, now 73, would become owner of Dorrian's Red Hand, the infamous pub at East 84th Street and Second Avenue.

[MrsMush99]

NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/398198p-337388c.html)

Carpet fiber link to ex-con

Bouncer to be charged in Oct. rape
as strands at flat match those on slay tape

BY TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, WILLIAM SHERMAN and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Imette St. Guillen on a recent trip to Florida.
Darryl Littlejohn is the lead suspect in Imette's St. Guillen's murder.
Carpet fibers on the tape covering Imette St. Guillen's brutalized face have been linked to the prime suspect - who is now expected to be charged in an earlier rape, sources told the Daily News yesterday.

The fibers on the tan tape match those from Darryl Littlejohn's Queens apartment and are the strongest evidence yet linking him to the ghastly rape and slaying of the 24-year-old graduate student, sources said.

[dragonfly]

The startling developments came as a homeless woman claimed to have seen St. Guillen's abduction outside a SoHo bar two weeks ago.The new witness - found by The News and later interviewed by cops - said she was trying to sleep in a park across the street from The Falls on the morning St. Guillen vanished.

Lorraine House said a dark van pulled up in front of the pub and a black man got out of the driver's seat and went inside. He returned quickly and guided a dark-haired woman into the van, she said.

"He went in and he came out with her," the 50-year-old woman told The News. "She was staggering a little bit and he was holding her from behind, by the elbows."

"I know he drove away mighty fast. He screeched off. That was what really attracted my attention," she said.

House, who had been abusing crack and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, said she didn't think much about the incident - until she saw Littlejohn's face plastered across The News' front page. Shortly after The News found House in the small park, where she had not returned until yesterday, detectives rolled up and took her in for questioning.

From the NYDaily link above! http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/398198p-337388c.html

[JusticeMag]

We've got an exclusive on Littlejohn today at JusticeMag.com, details on an open warrant he's got in Baltimore for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, and why that warrant might be important for NY police.

You can read the article here (http://www.justicemag.com/daily/item/2503.html).
(http://editpost.php?do=editpost&p=995275)

[dragonfly]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/398144p-337373c.html

Imette St. Guillen's slaying has inspired a proposed "Imette's Law" that could deter similar crimes by requiring bars to put video cameras at their entrances.


"It would help make a difference in situations like this," said Ryan Kocher, 22, a graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former boyfriend of St. Guillen.


Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) said he would sponsor Imette's Law.

[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129746

DL NOT ID'D

[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129830

[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129832&format=

Fri morn--10 March

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[indigomood]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/national/main1388462.shtml

On Thursday, police revealed that carpet fibers on the tape covering St. Guillen's brutalized face linked to Littlejohn. The fibers on the tan tape match those from his Queens apartment and are the strongest evidence yet linking him to the crime, WBZ reporter Dan Rea said.

But the carpet is "relatively common," the New York Daily News reports.

Investigators also conclusively determined that semen on the floral blanket found wrapped around St. Guillen's dead body does not belong to Littlejohn, police told the New York Post. Police now believe that the cat-hair-covered blanket came from the basement of The Falls bar, where Littlejohn works, the newspaper reports. Investigators combed cats who live in that basement for hair samples and were awaiting the return of forensic tests.

The semen on the blanket could have come from an earlier sexual encounter in the basement, but sources said it also raises the possibility that someone else had sex with St. Guillen the night she was killed.

In another setback to investigators, DNA recovered from underneath St. Guillen's fingernails did not match Littlejohn's, sources told the Post Thursday. Police spokesman Paul Browne said that the department was continuing to examine evidence.

"If there's a match, then Mr. Littlejohn is in very big trouble, Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, forensic scientist tells Solorzano. "If there is not a match, it doesn't exclude him because there still remains the possibility that there were multiple perpetrators."

[indigomood]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/08/suspect_nyc_victim_allegedly_seen_in_car/

Officers also emerged from the house with three large brown bags and four smaller ones bearing stickers that said biohazard. On one bag was a list of items: military green pants, a black wool hat, and black pants.

[indigomood]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=1708763&page=1

March 10, 2006 — Police have returned to the home of a bouncer they are calling a "person of interest" in the killing of Imette St. Guillen. They are looking for evidence to link him to the graduate student who was last seen at the bar where he worked before her body was found dumped in a vacant lot.

Police sources told ABC News affiliate WABC-TV that investigators were tearing out plumbing in Darryl Littlejohn's home.

[indigomood]

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/newyork/nyc-nyslay094655392mar09,0,491139.story?coll=nyc-nynews-print

Police sources say detectives suspect woman's remarks sent bouncer into rage that ended with her death

A racially tinged comment, uttered by an apparently inebriated Imette St. Guillen, may have sent bouncer Darryl Littlejohn into a murderous rage, detectives now believe, according to police sources.

St. Guillen's statement, sources said, also seemed puzzling because it followed Littlejohn's claim that he was a U.S. marshal.

"It doesn't make sense, but we think it was because she had been drinking," one police source said. "Everyone said she was being nasty the whole time she was there. It may have been because of the alcohol."

St. Guillen, who lived on the Upper West Side, had two drinks at The Falls, sources said. As closing time approached, she was offered another drink, which she refused.

"I don't need another drink from you people," witnesses remembered her saying, sources said.

At that point, sources said, Littlejohn moved in, possibly in an effort to calm matters down, though some accounts describe him as seeming to be attracted to her.

"Leave me the -- alone," St. Guillen is quoted as saying, police sources said. "I'm a FBI agent."

Littlejohn, who was known to walk his South Jamaica neighborhood pretending to be a federal agent, had a quick retort, police said.

"Oh yeah?" he said. "I'm a U.S. marshal."

St. Guillen then made the comment about blacks, sources said, prompting Littlejohn's boss to order him to escort her out of the bar.

Workers - who, according to police sources, described St. Guillen as appearing drunk - have told detectives they heard an argument a few minutes later but did not check to see what was happening.

[i.b.nora]

Petra posted a link to this article earlier today, but it is worth repeating:

Rape victim nixes Littlejohn as suspect (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=129830&format=&page=1)
By Michele McPhee
Friday, March 10, 2006 - Updated: 06:29 AM EST

"NEW YORK - Career criminal Darryl Littlejohn remains firmly in the sights of NYPD detectives probing the sex slaying of Imette St. Guillen, even though a rape victim assaulted in a similar manner last October failed yesterday to select him from a police lineup.
“We think the victim got scared,” a source said. “We are still very confident he is the only suspect in the murder. We are going to prove it with science.” "

"Yesterday, the Herald reported that investigators have matched carpet threads recovered from the brown packing tape that swathed St. Guillen’s entire face to a red rug at Littlejohn’s Queens home.
The same fibers were found on a comforter that covered the 24-year-old Mission Hill woman’s mutilated body when it was found dumped in the East New York section of Brooklyn on Feb. 25. “The threads are not the only evidence we have,” a law enforcement source said yesterday.

more ...

[cathieq]

More news and a pic:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/398484p-337659c.html

[PrayersForMaura]

Victim's Blanket Came From N.Y. Bar, Reports Say
Fri Mar 10, 8:46 AM ET

There are new details in the Imette St. Guillen murder investigation. A New York newspaper says police now believe they know where the blanket in which St. Guillen's body was wrapped came from.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcvb/20060310/lo_wcvb/3321381

[i.b.nora]

The mugshots and the suspect:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/HPJack/littlejohn_composite.jpg

[indigomood]

nothing really new here, just that LJ's home was searched again today...

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_070220737.html

Detectives carried out large boxes from the home of Darryl Littlejohn on Saturday, desperate for any physical evidence that might tie him to the rape and murder of 24-year-old graduate student Imette Saint Guillen.

[indigomood]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/398777p-337901c.html

A lawyer for the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of a Manhattan graduate student said recent setbacks for the NYPD raised the specter that cops have fingered the wrong man.

Investigators also are looking at material pulled from the traps in Littlejohn's tub and sinks.

Sources said yesterday a van seat recovered from Littlejohn's home was "suspiciously clean." When cops asked him why, he told them he didn't need the extra seats in the van and left the bench in the house.

[scandi]

Thanks for the pics Nora. Gee, the drawing is all wrong. Too big of a chin, cheekbones not prominent enough, nose too long. I was startled to see in real life how much color he has! If you discount the color you can tell it is him, but if you ID'ed him by the 2003 pic you'd have a hard time in the flesh. I suppose they make him take off the glasses for the lineup, right?

Gotta be he had a partner.



Scandi

[i.b.nora]

NYPD sifts for smoking gun (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=130104)
By Michele McPhee
Sunday, March 12, 2006 - Updated: 09:17 AM EST


NEW YORK - NYPD detectives believe a “transfer of evidence” will soon link Manhattan bouncer Darryl Littlejohn to the sadistic killing of Boston native Imette St. Guillen, the Herald has learned.
“At every single crime, there is something that the perp left behind of himself at the scene, or took with him from the scene,” a high-ranking police official told the Herald. “That’s what they are looking for. Maybe her hair in his van, or his DNA on her body.

“The carpet threads are a start,” the source said, referring to fibers from Littlejohn’s home carpet that cops say match fibers taken from the packing tape and blanket found on St. Guillen’s body. “But somewhere in what they recovered is the evidence transfer they need.”

Article also has a list of evidence recovered so far, for example:

"Here is a look at the evidence gathered so far on Littlejohn, 41, a parolee with seven felony convictions and a penchant for posing as a federal law enforcement officer.
# Red carpet threads found in Littlejohn’s home allegedly match fibers found stuck to the tape around St. Guillen’s face and on the comforter swaddling her body."

more . . .

[i.b.nora]

Police commissioner: DNA break in the St. Guillen murder case (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3985934)

ABC 7 Eyewitness News - New York
(New York-WABC, March 12, 2006) - Police Commissioner Ray Kelly held a news conference Sunday afternoon to announce that there have been developments in the investigation of Imette Saint Guillen's murder.
Eyewitness News was the first to report Sunday afternoon that police believe they have a break in the case of the woman who was brutally attacked, raped, and strangled.

Kelly said Sunday that DNA evidence found on the plastic ties that were used to bind strangled student Imette St. Guillen has been matched to prime suspect, bouncer Darryl Littlejohn.

more...

[i.b.nora]

An updated version of the earlier article, with more info:

Police: DNA break in St. Guillen murder (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3986165)
Bouncer named as prime suspect in brutal killing
ABC 7 Eyewitness News

"Authorities say phone records place Littlejohn near the spot where here body was dumped. Sources tell ABC News that investigators have linked hair on the blanket that was used to wrap her body to Littlejohn's cat."

more at link...

[i.b.nora]

Boston Herald article:

DNA links bouncer to slay: Littlejohn’s blood found on Imette (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=130226)
By Michele Mcphee
Monday, March 13, 2006

"NYPD detectives plan to seek a murder indictment against Darryl Littlejohn by presenting the DNA results and other forensic evidence to a grand jury as early as today, Kelly said."

"The blood on the plastic cuffs was matched to DNA collected from Littlejohn early last week. While Littlejohn was questioned at the 75th Precinct, NYPD detectives bought him Chinese food and saved his eating utensils, along with a plastic cup from which he drank.
Another DNA sample collected from Littlejohn when he was serving an armed robbery sentence in 2000 was marked with one of his five aliases, Jonathan Blaze, the name of a comic book character. Last week’s sample was recorded under his given name.
“Initially, we thought the blood on the cuffs was hers. We could not find any cuts or scratches on him during questioning,” a source said. “There was a lot of jubilation in the squad when the call came that the blood was his.”"

"The source said other evidence collected may also bolster their case. “There was hair recovered. We are waiting for that to come back from the lab.”"

more ...

[petra]

http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=130227

about dan dorian....................

[concernedperson]

NYPD search for possible 2nd suspect

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_070093416.html

[strach304]

The latest so far this morning:

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=57757

[MrsMush99]

NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60968.htm)

March 13, 2006 -- Slay suspect Darryl Little john's blood has been found on the plastic ties that were used to bind the hands of Imette St. Guillen - cops' first bombshell piece of physical evidence linking him to the horrific murder.

A grim-faced Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday announced the DNA match - and revealed that prosecutors will use it to seek a Brooklyn grand-jury indictment of the 41-year-old ex-con in the sensational case.

The odds that the blood could belong to someone other than Littlejohn are "one in a trillion," the police commissioner said.

DNA from the blood found on the plastic ties matched a DNA sample that Littlejohn had to submit to authorities as part of his parole agreement two years ago on an armed-robbery rap.

NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/399277p-338284c.html)

Ex-con's blood linked to slay

Ties used on Imette have his DNA

By TONY SCLAFANI and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly announces yesterday that Darryl Littlejohn's blood was found on plastic ties, similar to those at right that bound Imette St. Guillen.

Blood from the "prime suspect" in the savage slaying of Imette St. Guillen was found on the plastic ties that bound her hands behind her back, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly revealed yesterday in a bombshell announcement.

The first hard physical evidence against ex-con bar bouncer Darryl Littlejohn - in what had been a frustrating circumstantial probe for cops - was coupled with news that the case will now go to a grand jury.

Newsday (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-stud0313,0,7580329.story?coll=ny-top-headlines)

Cops: DNA links bouncer to student slay

BY LUIS PEREZ
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER

March 13, 2006

The blood of a bar bouncer considered the prime suspect in the brutal rape and killing of John Jay College graduate student Imette St. Guillen was matched to a plastic packaging tie used to bind her wrists, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday.

The DNA match all but assured criminal charges would be filed against Darryl Littlejohn, although Kelly said the case will be presented to a grand jury panel before charges are brought against the SoHo bouncer who has been the main focus of the investigation since the 24-year-old's body was found on a secluded and weed-strewn field along the Belt Parkway two weeks ago.

[indigomood]

Sources confirm the 47-year-old homeless man is a crucial witness in the murder of Imette St. Guillen.

Cruz told CBS2 what he heard St. Guillen was saying to bouncer Darryl Littlejohn, the prime suspect in the graduate student's murder.

"Why is he throwing me out of the bar, I didn't do nothing to him," Cruz said was a question he overheard St. Guillen ask Littlejohn.


According to sources, that is consistent with details provided by The Falls bartender, that he had instructed Littlejohn to escort St. Guillen from the bar after last call.

More at Link (http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_072182345.html)

[indigomood]

According to one law enforcement official, investigators are now theorizing that outside the Falls bar, Imette Saint Guillen may have accepted a ride home from the suspect and was instead attacked and bound in the back of Littlejohn's van and murdered perhaps in his home in South Jamaica.

More at Link (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3989327)

[i.b.nora]

New York Post
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

HI-TECH TEST FOUND BOUNCER'S 'INVISIBLE' BLOOD (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/65250.htm)
"The telltale blood that linked a bouncer to the brutal rape and slaying of graduate student Imette St. Guillen was invisible to the naked eye - and was revealed by a high-tech test, The Post has learned."

"Because his blood was not visible on the ties, Littlejohn, 41, may not have bothered to wipe them down."

"Forensic scientists swabbed the ties, ran the samples lifted off them through a centrifuge and then ran the separated materials through a DNA-detecting machine."

more. . . . .

[indigomood]

http://www.turnto10.com/news/7989162/detail.html?rss=pro&psp=news#

NEW YORK -- The murder case of a graduate student could reach a Brooklyn grand jury as early as Tuesday.

According to WNBC in New York, police have asked the State Liquor Authority to suspend its investigation of the bar so that police can finish their investigation.

Richard Aborn of the Citizens Crime Commission, a police watchdog group, said there is a reason New Yorkers relate to the 24-year-old graduate student's death.

"We have different mechanisms for distancing ourselves," he said. "We tell ourselves it happened in a different part of town, or that it involved people in criminal activity, but not here. This case touches everyone."

One unanswered question is why the managers of the Falls Bar apparently didn't tell police about Littlejohn for a week.

"If the bar managers did something wrong, they'll be prosecuted," said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

more at link

[indigomood]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/399501p-338488c.html

Prosecutors are gearing up to seek a first-degree murder indictment against the ex-con bouncer whose DNA has been tied to the brutal rape and slaying of a graduate student, sources said yesterday.

The grand jury could indict Littlejohn on first-degree murder charges if prosecutors can show he committed multiple crimes during the course of the slaying.

Littlejohn's lawyer Kevin O'Donnell criticized cops for going public with the DNA link before telling him about the evidence - and expressed doubts about the results. "I have concerns about a DNA test taking two weeks that should have taken no more than 72 hours," he said.

Later, in an appearance on CNN, O'Donnell also questioned how Littlejohn could have shed blood evidence, saying the bouncer had no wounds. But police sources have said Littlejohn had a fairly fresh scratch on his neck when he was picked up.

more at link

[indigomood]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/399345p-338288c.html

Tashawn Smith, 37, who grew up with Littlejohn, said they went to August Martin High School in Jamaica - but Littlejohn had to get his high school equivalency degree.
"He was nice and respectful. He's a nice guy, very calm and collected," Smith said. "He never looked for problems. He never gave anybody any problems."

With a big black dog at his side, Littlejohn made daily strolls to a corner store at Sutphin Blvd., where he would buy dog food, newspapers, lottery tickets and turkey sandwiches, said owner Jose Taverez, 50.

Littlejohn told his parole officer he was working at a mortgage company. He didn't mention he was working as a bouncer at The Falls, even though his parole was supposed to keep him home at night - and bars aren't supposed to hire felons.

Yet he tried to recruit his neighbor Donovan Yorts, 37, to be a bouncer, promising easy work at glamorous nightspots.

"He said nothing happens there - whatever fights happen there stay there," said Yorts.

eta - anyone have an old yearbook?? Maybe there is a pic of him before he dropped out?:p

[indigomood]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/nyregion/15dead.html?ex=1300078800&en=c0c7e73bd4f27ccb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

And in the Nassau County case, in which an attacker abducted and raped a 15-year-old girl, it appears that there may be no lineup at all, a law enforcement official said.

The reasons for that were unclear yesterday. But the law enforcement official said the process that would lead to a lineup had been "compromised" because of an apparent mistake involving a picture of Mr. Littlejohn: it was either accidentally shown to the victim, or pointed out to her from among a group of other photographs.

more at link

[indigomood]

The prisoner was angry. He was to appear before Justice Eugene P. Bambrick in Part K-11 of State Supreme Court in Queens to be sentenced for drug possession, but he would not enter the courtroom.

"He says he's not going," the court officer said, according to the minutes of the sentencing hearing, on a two-year-old drug charge, that January day in 1989. The prisoner, Damon Wells, was angry because his sentencing hearing was not being adjourned, and he could therefore not be married before going to prison, his lawyer, Robert Klein, explained.

Mr. Wells knew that he would be locked up for at least two years, and without a marriage certificate, state prison rules would not allow him overnight visits with his female companion.

In the end, Damon Wells — now known by his given name, Darryl Littlejohn, the bouncer accused of killing Imette St. Guillen, a graduate student — was taken before the judge and was sent to Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County. But the flash of anger that day is one of several passages in court records from Mr. Littlejohn's various courtroom appearances that give hints of his personality. At times he sounds defiant, at other times blunt and, finally, contrite.

In 1988 in the Queens case, an order from the clerk tells correction officers to produce Mr. Wells from jail, using "force if necessary."

More At Link (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/nyregion/16dead.html)

[indigomood]

March 16, 2006 -- Brooklyn prosecutors yesterday began laying out to a grand jury their case against the suspect in the rape and murder of Imette St. Guillen, sources said.

The proceeding began with testimony from the first police officer to find St. Guillen's body wrapped in a blanket alongside a barren stretch of road near the Belt Parkway in East New York, the sources said.

The medical examiner then reported the cause of St. Guillen's death: strangulation and asphyxiation, the sources said.

The day closed with the beginning of testimony describing how investigators pinpointed suspect ex-con bar bouncer Darryl Littlejohn's cellphone to the remote area where the 24-year-old grad-school beauty's body was dumped, just hours before cops found her there, the sources said.

That testimony is expected to continue today, the sources said, to be followed by the heart of the prosecution's case: DNA evidence.

More At Link (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/63214.htm)

[indigomood]

March 17, 2006 -- Retired NYPD criminologist Nicholas Petraco, 58, has been probing hairs and fibers linked to the brutal rape and murder of Imette St. Guillen since her battered corpse was found in Brooklyn on Feb. 25, sources said.

A Brooklyn grand jury is now probing suspect Darryl Littlejohn in connection with the murder. Littlejohn is an ex-con and was a bouncer at The Falls, the SoHo bar where St. Guillen was last seen alive.

Petraco, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, is a nationally recognized forensic expert whose work could prove integral to prosecutor Ken Taub's case against Littlejohn.

More At Link (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/400498p-339175c.html)

[indigomood]

March 17, 2006 BOSTON -- A grand jury in New York may be getting ready to hand up an indictment in the slaying of Boston native Imette St. Guillen.

NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that St. Guillen's family has not commented on the developments.

The panel of 23 men and women has been hearing evidence against Darryl Littlejohn over the past few days. If an indictment is handed up, it will not be unsealed until the district attorney returns from vacation.

More At Link (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/8086475/detail.html)

[Jean]

2nd Bouncer Key Witness In St. Guillen Case

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_076115314.html

(CBS) BROOKLYN For a second day, Brooklyn prosecutors continue to present witnesses and scientific evidence to the grand jury in the murder investigation of Imette St. Guillen. But CBS 2 has learned one of those witnesses could spell more trouble for the Falls Bar. That witness, Tim Catella, was another bouncer at the Falls Bar, and he, too, has a checkered past.

Catella worked alongside Darryl Littlejohn at the Falls Bar the night St. Guillen was murdered.

Sources told CBS 2 that Catella is now a key witness for prosecutors.

Cbs2 has learned that what makes Catella crucial to the case is that he said that Littlejohn was the only person who led the victim out of the bar.

CBS 2 Investigates confirmed that like Littlejohn, Catella was working at the Falls Bar even though he has a criminal past.

Catella was arrested and charged in April 2001 with two counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon. More at link

[i.b.nora]

Boston Herald

Another shady past comes to light (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131286)
By Michele McPhee/ The Beat
Monday, March 20, 2006 - Updated: 11:34 AM EST

"It should only be a matter of days now until Boston cop Luke Holbrook can stare at the “savage animal” who stands accused of murdering the woman he considered a sister.
This week, Holbrook and his extended family plan to attend the arraignment of Manhattan bouncer Darryl Littlejohn, a 41-year-old career criminal who is expected to be indicted for the sadistic murder of Boston native Imette St. Guillen, the cop’s stepsister."

"Hopefully, science will prove the NYPD’s case against the parolee. It sure won’t be witnesses from The Falls who help the case.
In last week’s column I wrote about Danny Dorrian, one of the bar’s owners, who hindered St. Guillen’s murder investigation by lying to the cops. Now it turns out that another bouncer at The Falls, Tim Catella, also has a violent rap sheet."

"Catella was the second bouncer who escorted the pretty and promising John Jay College of Criminal Justice coed out of The Falls around 4:05 a.m. that terrible morning. Catella has told investigators that he jumped into a taxi, leaving St. Guillen and Littlejohn alone on the street and went to his Staten Island home."

"His story checks out. Security tapes captured him on the Staten Island ferry, and witnesses put him at home the next day. What’s questionable, though, is his past. In 2001, Catella was busted for beating another man with a baseball bat and a flashlight."

more.....

[i.b.nora]

New York Magazine
March 20, 2006
Last Call (http://www.nymetro.com/news/intelligencer/16478/)
What the bartender saw the night Imette St. Guillen was drinking at the Falls
By Chris Faherty

"I know it sounds cliché, but it was just like any other Friday night at the Falls. I was in the weeds by eleven. It was wall-to-wall by midnight. At quarter after three, I was splitting the tips with Rebecca, the other bartender. By 3:45, I’d closed in on the finish line—the organization of a small mountain of credit-card slips—when I decided to take a bathroom break. The bar was close to empty, but en route, I noticed one of the last patrons: She was sitting alone at the far end of the twenty-foot oak bar, very erect in her chair. I remember thinking how strange it was to see a dainty little girl sitting alone at the bar, talking to no one. But I had a routine, business to finish. The last chore was in the basement. At around 4 a.m., as I was counting my drop in the office below, the girl, like any other patron at closing time, was asked to leave and escorted out by the doorman. Later that day, the dead body of Imette St. Guillen was found in an abandoned field in East New York."

"I met Darryl Littlejohn three months ago, when he was hired as a doorman. But I didn’t know him by that name; I knew him only as “B.” I was outside grabbing a quick smoke, sparking up some conversation with Kwan, our regular bouncer, who introduced us. I asked the obvious question: What does B stand for?"

Much more...

This is the bartender's account. Very interesting.

[i.b.nora]

An article in The Baltimore Sun this past weekend, talking about the New York tabloids.

Grisly murder in New York makes perfect grist for tabloids (http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/custom/aetoday/bal-ae.tabloid19mar19,0,2455038.story?coll=bal-aetoday-headlines)

"The St. Guillen's case raised the tabloids into fever pitch. "Beast May Strike Again," the New York Daily News, the country's first tabloid, warned Tuesday in a headline above a story reporting that the "twisted sex fiend who tortured, raped and killed a beautiful criminology student - covering her face with strips of clear tape - likely chose his prey at random."

No shrinking violet, The New York Post, The News's perennial competitor, breathlessly reported that several of St. Guillen's fingernails were ripped, indicating that the 24-year old graduate student might have tried to fight off her assailant.

And Newsday, the Long Island tab, muscled its way in as well, blaring in a Feb. 28th headline "Slain Student May Have Been Gang-Raped.""

more .....

Might help some people be able to better interpret the news stories.

[i.b.nora]

From The Village Voice
March 21, 2006

Flunking a Bar Exam (http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0612,ferguson,72602,5.html)
After the killing of Imette St. Guillen, scrutiny for the Falls dynasty
by Sarah Ferguson
March 21st, 2006 11:51 AM

"Michael Dorrian was pacing back and forth inside his now infamous Falls bar in Soho, stopping occasionally to peer through the curtains at the media circus parked on his doorstep. It was Friday, March 10, two weeks to the day since Imette St. Guillen, a dean's list student at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, had her last drink in Dorrian's place before her ravaged body turned up near the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn."

more...

[txsvicki]

The other bouncer "jumped" into a cab. I wonder if he rushed ahead of Imette and took the cab before she could, or if there was some pre arrangement with littlejohn to leave him alone with girls. There is no mention of Imetter arguing.

[indigomood]

Originally published on March 22, 2006

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401965p-340398c.html

The prime suspect in the murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen could be indicted as soon as today, the Daily News has learned.

A spokesman for St. Guillen's family said her kin are coming from Boston to attend an expected arraignment tomorrow.

*more at link*

[i.b.nora]

The Boston Herald
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Littlejohn indicted in St. Guillen murder (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131702)

NEW YORK — Darryl Littlejohn, the Manhattan bouncer whose DNA allegedly was found on plastic straps used to bind Imette St. Guillen’s wrists, was indicted today on charges of murdering the Boston native.

more, of course ...

[i.b.nora]

The Associated Press article:

Bouncer Charged In NYC Student Slay (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/22/national/main1430676.shtml)
CBSNews

and the same article

Grand Jury Indicts Littlejohn in Murder of N.Y. Grad Student (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188805,00.html)
FoxNews

"A bouncer with a long rap sheet has been charged with murder in the death of a graduate student from Boston who was savagely raped, strangled and dumped last month in a desolate area of Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said Wednesday." more

Note that it is an anonymous law enforcement official who says it is a murder charge. In fact, the indictment is still sealed.

[i.b.nora]

This ABCnews article has some new info in it.

Bouncer Charged in Student Slaying (http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=1756433&page=1)
Darryl Littlejohn Charged in Killing of Imette St. Guillen
By CHRIS FRANCESCANI and RICHARD ESPOSITO

"March 22, 2006 — The indictment of Manhattan bouncer Darryl Littlejohn in the gruesome murder of John Jay College student Imette St. Guillen is expected to be unsealed in Brooklyn on Thursday, ABC News has learned."

"'Very Conclusive' Evidence

A "very conclusive" DNA match obtained from a blood sample lifted from the back of ties used to bind St. Guillen's hands linked Littlejohn to her killing, police and prosecutors said.

DNA evidence also links Littlejohn to at least one previous sexual assault, ABC News has learned."

more . . .

[i.b.nora]

CBS4Boston
Mar 23, 2006 11:56 am US/Eastern

Indictment Unsealed In St. Guillen Murder (http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_082110443.html)

"(CBS4) BROOKLYN, NY The bouncer at the Manhattan bar where Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive has been indicted for her murder.

"Imette St. Guillen's horrific murder will not go unpunished," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes in announcing the three-count indictment against Darryl Littlejohn Thursday.

Hynes said the indictment was the result of cooperation between his office, New York City police and the medical examiner's office.

Littlejohn, 41, was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the slaying of the 24-year-old St. Guillen, and faces life without parole if convicted. Authorities made the case against him using DNA and forensic evidence.

An arraignment was scheduled for Thursday afternoon at state Supreme Court in Brooklyn."

more

[i.b.nora]

Boston Herald
By Michele McPhee
Thursday, March 23, 2006 - Updated: 11:47 AM EST

Source: Bloody nose likely DNA source (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131765)

NEW YORK - A history of nose bleeds could explain why Darryl Littlejohn’s blood was found smeared on the plastic bindings used to tie up murder victim Imette St. Guillen, a law enforcement said last night, hours after the career criminal was indicted and charged in her macabre murder.

The career criminal accused of killing the Boston native claimed in a TV report aired last night that the absence of wounds on his body should raise questions about the blood allegedly containing his DNA found on plastic straps that bound St. Guillen’s wrists.
But a law enforcement source said jailed suspect Darryl Littlejohn is prone to nose bleeds, easily accounting for the evidence. He is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and unlawful imprisonment.

more

[indigomood]

Lawyer - Bouncer to plead not guilty in graduate student's death in New York (http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=4672307)

His lawyer tells M-S-N-B-C Littlejohn will plead not guilty. The lawyer says, "All he's looking for is a fair trial."

*more at link*

[indigomood]

Imette suspect’s mom torpedoes his alibi (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131862)

NEW YORK -- Darryl Littlejohn’s own mother helped build the criminal case that led to his indictment on murder charges, officials say.

Littlejohn told detectives that he could not have been the sadistic killer who raped and killed 24-year-old Boston Latin graduate Imette St. Guillen because he was visiting his mother in a nursing home on Feb. 25, the day that she was brutally murdered.

“Witnesses do not support hat alibi,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told the Herald today. “There was no record of him being there. No witnesses were able to place him there.”

detectives also say they discovered “rabbit and mink hair” matching the collars of two of Littlejohn’s coats with Imette’s body.

Yesterday, Hynes said investigators believe St. Guillen was in Littlejohn’s basement apartment in Jamaica, Queens, but detectives remained uncertain where the murder took place. “We believe she was there, but don’t know for how long,” he said.

Among the new evidence unveiled today included statements from a witness who said he saw a blue Windstar minivan without plates — identical to the one recovered near Littlejohn’s home a week after the slaying — make a U-turn on Fountain Avenue in East New York at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 and speed away.

*more at link*

[indigomood]

Forensic Evidence Credited in Murder Indictment (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/nyregion/23cnd-dead.html?hp&ex=1143176400&en=eb34e177d6d5ad44&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

Published: March 23, 2006 Prosecutors based the first-degree murder charge on the reasonable inference that the murder took place in conjunction with the commission of one of four different sex crimes, including rape and sexual assault.

investigators have focused on the basement of Mr. Littlejohn's Queens home as the likely scene of the murder.

And they would not comment on whether the police had been able to locate her clothing and personal effects.

Mr. Kelly also said they believe that Mr. Littlejohn had driven his van to work that day.

Mr. Littlejohn remains a "person of interest" in other New York cases, including a Queens case.

Mr. Kelly said that Ms. St. Guillen's phone had been turned off around the time of the crime.

*more at link*

[marly56]

Forensic Evidence Credited in Murder Indictment (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/nyregion/23cnd-dead.html?hp&ex=1143176400&en=eb34e177d6d5ad44&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

Published: March 23, 2006 Prosecutors based the first-degree murder charge on the reasonable inference that the murder took place in conjunction with the commission of one of four different sex crimes, including rape and sexual assault.

investigators have focused on the basement of Mr. Littlejohn's Queens home as the likely scene of the murder.

And they would not comment on whether the police had been able to locate her clothing and personal effects.

Mr. Kelly also said they believe that Mr. Littlejohn had driven his van to work that day.

Mr. Littlejohn remains a "person of interest" in other New York cases, including a Queens case.

Mr. Kelly said that Ms. St. Guillen's phone had been turned off around the time of the crime.

*more at link*
thanx indigomood, i just woke up and logged on wondering what the latest was on this case and lo and behold i found all your post. it looks like LE has the right man. at this point after reading your post, i have no doubt that littlejohn did this . i can not tell you how all those awful thoughts came flooding back into my half sleepy mind as i read about this other evidence [the rabbit and mink hairs]. GROSS! i saw LJ,s interview his eyes so intense, his voice like a cartoon character, his big muscular back, poor imette,she did not have a chance. i wonder how many others he killed.

[i.b.nora]

From tomorrow's New York Times
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
Published: March 24, 2006

No Trouble in Prison; in Trouble Outside (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/nyregion/24suspect.html)

"In a series of newly released transcripts of Darryl Littlejohn's interviews with parole board members between 1986 and 1995, Mr. Littlejohn reveals himself as someone alternately cooperative — participating in a wide variety of prison programs — and, combative, insisting that he was arrested more than once simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time."

much more . . .

[i.b.nora]

From today's Boston Herald

Imette’s kin: He stole family’s ‘spark’ (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131924)
By Michele McPhee
Friday, March 24, 2006 - Updated: 12:24 PM EST

"NEW YORK - Maureen St. Guillen fully expected to hate New York, a place she once loved but is now the city that claimed her “spark,” her youngest daughter Imette, murdered by a monster just days before her 25th birthday.

“Coming here, I wanted to hate it. But I can’t. It’s forever going to be a sad place for me, but being here, I know. It’s not the city that took her. It’s a person,” Maureen St. Guillen told the Herald in an exclusive interview at her Manhattan hotel."

more . . .

[indigomood]

Suspect ’s ‘mom alibi’ doesn’t fly (http://news.bostonherald.com/stGuillenMurder/view.bg?articleid=131967)

By Michele McPhee
Friday, March 24, 2006 NEW YORK - Witnesses undercut Darryl Littlejohn’s alibi that he was visiting his mother in a nursing home at the time of Imette St. Guillen’s murder, officials say, a key factor in securing his indictment.

While Littlejohn, 41, was not charged with rape, Hynes said there was significant evidence a sex crime had occurred. “The evidence presented to the grand jury showed the murder was committed in the course of a sexual attack,” Hynes said.

Littlejohn, a career hood, did not utter a single word at his arraignment yesterday in Brooklyn Superior Court, where he was charged with two counts of murder in the second degree, and one count of murder.

The victim’s mother, Maureen St. Guillen, bit her lip when Littlejohn was led into court, his hands shackled to a leather belt around his waist. Whatever tears she shed were hidden behind dark sunglasses. Also present was Claire Higgins, the friend who was out with Imette St. Guillen the night of her death.

Friends said Maureen St. Guillen had hoped to stare down the man accused of killing her child. But at no time during his appearance did Littlejohn turn around.

*more at link*

[indigomood]

IMETTE BARMAN SPEAKS (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/63628.htm)

March 26, 2006 -- With his family's name popping up in connection to the murder of a young woman once again, The Falls owner Michael Dorrian is insisting he and his family are not to blame.

"I run a decent bar and this incident didn't take place here. [Darryl] Littlejohn is the one they need to look at," he told The Post in his first interview since Imette St. Guillen disappeared after leaving his bar last month.

-more at link-

[indigomood]

CSI found clue that led to NY arrest (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/14190835.htm?source=rss&channel=belleville_nation)

Mar. 26, 2006 NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said fibers from a blue rabbit fur collar, a brown mink fur collar coat and a red polyester carpet in Littlejohn's apartment were "consistent" with those found on the packing tape that sealed St. Guillen's face.

Such forensic evidence placed St. Guillen in Littlejohn's home, Hynes said.

According to John Jay Prof. Thomas Kubic, Petraco's co-author on crime scene investigations books, the nationally recognized forensic expert has spent days in the s crime lab with at least a half-dozen specialists peering through stereo microscopes and spectrophotometers to pinpoint fibers to the most minuscule detail.

-more at link-

[willowhorse]

IMETTE BARMAN SPEAKS (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/63628.htm)

March 26, 2006 -- With his family's name popping up in connection to the murder of a young woman once again, The Falls owner Michael Dorrian is insisting he and his family are not to blame.

"I run a decent bar and this incident didn't take place here. [Darryl] Littlejohn is the one they need to look at," he told The Post in his first interview since Imette St. Guillen disappeared after leaving his bar last month.

-more at link-
If the bar owner had told the truth to Imette's friends about Imette being at the bar and leaving with Littlejohn then the police may have saved Imette. The bar owner's lies contributed to Imette's death and obstructed the investigation.

[indigomood]

If the bar owner had told the truth to Imette's friends about Imette being at the bar and leaving with Littlejohn then the police may have saved Imette. The bar owner's lies contributed to Imette's death and obstructed the investigation.
Hello there,
Welcome to Websleuths...
I note you have made a similar post here...
The bar owner lied to Imette's friends when they were looking for her the next day. His actions are inexcusable because if he had told the truth there was a possibilty of Imette being rescued. The bar owner should be prosecuted for his lies! His actions contributed to Imette's death!
IMO, I am not sure anything could have been done to save Imette and I don't believe she could have been rescued, her fate already sealed in the hands of a crazed killer. The police get lied to all the time, I doubt it hindered their investigation as much as you believe it did.

a gentle reminder - This thread is for media links only, the other threads are for discussion. ;)

[indigomood]

Smiles & tears for Imette (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/407049p-344637c.html)

Nearly 300 friends of murdered graduate student Imette St. Guillen gathered at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan last night to share their memories of the beloved young woman who touched so many lives.

Yesterday's memorial ended with the Songs of Solomon Inspirational Ensemble singing the spiritual "This Little Light of Mine" while photos of St. Guillen from childhood to college flashed on a big screen.

The music ended with a large photo of St. Guillen smiling down at the audience, leaving the room in silence for a full three minutes save for muffled sobs.
*more at link*

[indigomood]

Bouncer silent on Imette slay (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/406459p-344087c.html)

Originally published on April 6, 2006

During four days of interrogation, a defensive Darryl Littlejohn never denied killing the 24-year-old John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, according to papers filed by Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Ken Taub. "I don't have anything to say about that," Littlejohn said on March 5 when asked point-blank by Detective Sean McTighe if he killed St. Guillen. He also refused to talk about a possible rape, McTighe wrote.

"I said, 'Did you just tie her up and suffocate her?' He said, 'I don't want to talk about it,'" McTighe added. "I said, 'Is it possible you did have sex with her and something went wrong and you didn't know what to do?'"

"He said, 'I don't have anything to say about that girl. ... I don't want to talk anymore tonight,'" McTighe wrote.

*more at link*

[indigomood]

Police Investigate Littlejohn Links To Sex Crimes (http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=58479)

April 10, 2006

Police say they are now looking into whether the man charged with Imette Saint Guillen's murder is also responsible for three other unsolved cases.

*snipped* sources say Littlejohn could be charged in the attack this week.

-more at link-

[indigomood]

New bouncer rap (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/407320p-344847c.html)

A DNA match has linked Darryl Littlejohn to the sexual assault of a young woman in Queens, according to law enforcement sources who said more charges could be filed against the ex-con as soon as this week.

The revelation that his DNA was found on handcuffs used to bind a would-be rape victim in Queens is the evidence cops have been searching for, the sources said.

-more at link-

[fran]

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4077189

Legislation could dramatically change who is checking your ID at the door
Eyewitness News' Jeff Pegues


(New York-WABC, April 11, 2006) - A tough new law is on the table that could affect the thousands of bars and nightclubs in New York City. The move comes after Imette Saint Guillen was tortured to death, allegedly by a bouncer with a criminal record she met at a local bar.


Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Pegues has the story from the Meat Packing district.

The new legislation could dramatically change how bars and nightclubs do business -- and who is checking your ID at the door. City Councilman Alan Gerson is one of the sponsors of the bill and says bar security in the city is rife with loopholes.

...........more at link............

[indigomood]

St. Guillen Family Working To Keep Memory Alive (http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_110113806.html)

Alejandra will be accepting Imette's diploma on her behalf in June. "I'm accepting it because she can't. I think she'll be there; she'll be happy that I'm there."

*more at link*

[MagicRose99]

Darryl Littlejohn, charged in the murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen, has now been indicted inat least one other sexual assault in Queens. Tune in to CBS2 News at 5 o'clock for more on this exclusive story.

A Queens grand jury handed up the indictment in connection with the attack in the borough last year.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_116160824.html

~~ more at link ~~

[indigomood]

CBS 2 Exclusive: Inside Littlejohn's Apartment (http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_117214321.html)

CBS 2 investigative reporter Scott Weinberger got exclusive access to Darryl Littlejohn's basement apartment.

It is here in Littlejohn's Jamaica apartment that prosecutors believe St. Guillen may have spent the last moments of her life.

Walking from room to room, we saw the aftermath of the NYPD's forensic investigation. The apartment was a wreck, fingerprint powder everywhere, sections of carpet taken up, and the bathroom was ripped apart.


*rest of article, and interesting pictures and video at link*

[indigomood]

Family Of Imette St. Guillen Plans To Sue (http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=59384)

May 12, 2006

The family of slain Manhattan graduate student Imette St. Guillen is filing several lawsuits targeting the man charged in her murder, the bar where she was last seen, and state and federal agencies.

*more at link*

Family Of Slain Grad Student To Sue Bar (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9204231/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news)

Lawsuit Also Targets State, Federal Agencies

The suit also targets federal and state agencies that were supposed to follow the progress of Littlejohn's parole.

[indigomood]

NEW YORK— The mother of a 24-year-old graduate student from Boston, who was found raped and strangled in February, allegedly at the hands of a Manhattan bar bouncer, has filed notice of her intent to sue New York State for $100 million.

Maureen St. Guillen, of Boston, filed the “notice of claim” with the state attorney general’s office Thursday in connection with the slaying of her daughter Imette. The notice must be filed at least 90 days prior to a lawsuit against the city or state.

The mother’s notice cites three state agencies: the Division of Parole, the Board of Parole and the Department of Correction. St. Guillen accuses them of “gross negligence” in letting Darryl Littlejohn, Imette’s suspected killer, get out of prison on parole.

more at link (http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060527/NEWS/605270461/1052/RSS01&source=rss)

[indigomood]

NEW YORK -- The mother and sister of slain graduate student Imette St. Guillen each hugged the president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Monday as they accepted her diploma posthumously during commencement ceremonies at Madison Square Garden.

Maureen St. Guillen held up a photo of her daughter, who was murdered earlier this year, then left the podium without speaking.

*more at link*Slain Student Awarded Posthumous Master's Degree (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9323115/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news)


There is also a link to a video here...

St. Guillen's Family Accepts Degree In Her Honor (http://cbs4boston.com/local/local_story_156111542.html)

[indigomood]

Bar owner Jim Dorian, whose bars were linked to two infamous murders, including that of Imette St. Guillen, was arrested for felony assault, after allegedly attacking a customer at one of his bars and fracturing his wrist.

link (http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_167234841.html)

[indigomood]

Imette St. Guillen's accused killer - who sat before TV cameras to proclaim his innocence after being arrested - suddenly became shy yesterday during a court appearance on an unrelated kidnapping charge.
Ex-con Darryl Littlejohn, 41, refused to leave his holding cell after a Queens judge allowed a bevy of cameras into the courtroom for the hearing.

Imette suspect hides in his cell (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/428824p-361607c.html)

[indigomood]

Darryl Littlejohn, who stands accused of killing a graduate student whose nude body was found in a desolate section of Brooklyn after she had been raped, tortured and strangled, made a brief court appearance on Thursday, but the trial for his case is still months away.
At the hearing before Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Cheryl Chambers, Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Taub turned over autopsy photographs of the grisly crime to defense attorney Kevin O’Donnell. The case is not due to resume until Sept. 20.

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The mother of slaying victim Imette St. Guillen was very interested to learn of an inheritance of millions of dollars due to the wife of Michael Dorrian.
Maureen St. Guillen is planning to sue Dorrian, owner of The Falls, for negligence in employing as a bouncer Darryl Littlejohn, the chief suspect in the death of her daughter after leaving the bar.

Dorrian's wife, Vaughn Babcock, is one of the heirs expected to profit from the sale of the Babcock Ranch, 91,000 acres in southwest Florida. The deal, which closed July 31, involved selling the huge parcel to Sydney Kitson, a former offensive guard for the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, who sold 74,000 acres to Florida the next day for environmental preservation. Kitson will build a city of 18,000 houses and other buildings on the remainder.

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September 21, 2006 -- The case against the alleged killer of Imette St. Guillen involves so much scientific evidence that the accused bouncer doesn't have the cash for a proper defense, he said yesterday.

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By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON

February 15, 2007 -- The bouncer accused of torturing and killing Imette St. Guillen refused to appear in a courtroom yesterday on a Queens kidnapping charge because of a threat he'd received while on Rikers Island.

more at link (http://www.nypost.com/seven/02152007/news/regionalnews/threat_scares_imette_killer_regionalnews_ikimulisa _livingston.htm)

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Mom of killed grad student sues feds
BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, February 2nd 2008, 4:00 AM

The mother of slain grad student Imette St. Guillen is suing the feds for failing to supervise alleged killer Darryl Littlejohn while he was on probation.
Maureen St. Guillen is seeking at least $200 million in damages, contending the U.S. Probation Service's negligence caused her daughter to suffer "severe, brutal and conscience-shocking injuries," according to papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.