Posted on 11/05/2023 4:16:23 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
NYPD cop killer freed by parole board despite execution-style murder as family fumes: ‘My brother’s never coming home’
A cold-blooded killer who murdered a cop execution-style outside a Queens nightclub will be a free man by the end of November — despite the heinous nature of his crime, the Post has learned.
Police Officer Paul Heidelberger was 28 when he was shot to death outside a Bayside, Queens, nightclub while off duty in 1992.
His killer, Patrick Bannon, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison but the state parole board granted his release in October and he’ll be freed this month — making him the 38th convicted cop killer sprung in New York since 2017, records show.
“When he walks out of the prison gates, will my brother walk in and say, ‘Hey, I’m home?'” asked Heidelberger’s older sister, Anne Fullam.
“No. My brother’s never coming home.”
“This man, supposedly, has a child,” Fullam said.
“Paul never got the chance to be a father.”
Cops said her brother was out with friends on July 18 when he was shot after breaking up a fight and escorting people to their cars on Bell Boulevard.
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I remember when cop killers never saw the inside of a courthouse.
In NJ in the 50s there was a murder of two coppers in Lodi. The details were too salacious to be printed then albeit they were reported as perverted. One POS fled to NYC where he was holed up in a hotel. the local office asked higher command how to handle the arrest. They were told to standby as a special unit will handle. They bursted in and shot the POS 40+ times as he lain on a bed. The picture of his body had a handgun in his hand (which was placed). Case closed and filed. No long trial, no huge number of appeals, no mental evaluations, and above all no parole.
Now they are released from prison as if they committed just a robbery, unbelievable, THIRTY EIGHT released since 2017 in New York alone!!!!! And they wonder why they can’t hire cops
Not only the police. Around 1980 some altar vessels were stolen from St. Anthony of Padua in Little Italy, in Manhattan. About a week later they mysteriously turned up (St. Antony Padua is the Patron saint of lost causes) and a couple of Melanzane turned up stuffed in a dumpster with their penises sewed into their mouths.
Well, the sentence was 30 years.
If he behaved in prison, it is hard to argue he should not be released.
The time to argue was 30 years ago.
Well he’s out and about now which gives the victims’ family an opportunity to exact their own justice however they see that.
btt
The board uses a “risk and needs assessment” score that considers an inmate’s age and record while in prison more than the initial crime, a source said.
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That’s their reasoning.
Hummmm........colloquial Italian. /s
Melanzane parmigiana - one of my favorite meals. LOL!!
IYKYK
SPJNK!
Taxes, Values, Security flipped the South in the 60’s the Industrial Northeast might be next.
Parole boards now days are supported by the likes of Soros chaos is the new rule.
ELIMINATE ALL PAROLE!
DO THE CRIME, DO THE TIME!
No need for parole.
BUILD AS MANY PRISONS AS IT TAKES!
Good for good paying jobs in construction and then permanent jobs running/maintaining them.
win, win, win.
I think voluntary termination of life should be offered to all inmates. Why live like an animal.
Charles Bronson would fix this situation.
New York is a CRIMINAL JOKE.
More formally: moolinyan
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