Cleveland Detective Vincent Ferrini wasn't looking to solve a murder for some other community.
But Ferrini was intrigued when an accused kidnapper told him in 1965 that he had murdered 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz -- and pointed him to the location of the murder weapon.
Somehow, nothing came of the information, a fact that bothered Ferrini until the day he died in 1994. Now that story has resurfaced, as told by George Pallotta, his son-in-law.
When Pallotta learned that Garfield Heights was reopening the Jarosz murder case, he repeated the story Ferrini had told him -- that William Rehard had admitted killing Beverly on Dec. 28, 1964.
According to Pallotta, Ferrini said he recovered a butcher's trimming knife and items of Jarosz's clothing in a Greyhound bus station locker -- exactly where the 22-year-old Rehard had said they were.
But before Rehard could be questioned further, or make a written confession, he committed suicide in the Cuyahoga County Jail. Later, when Ferrini asked to see the evidence he had turned over to Cleveland police, he was told it had been destroyed, Pallotta said....
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