Was it Seth's biological father, the former New Brunswick cop, or was it Niederer's current husband, who is just as loopy as she is.
On another page for soldiers who died in Iraq has a quote from AP and it describes Richard Dvorin as:
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/257030.html
Richard Dvorin, 61, an Air Force veteran and retired New Brunswick police officer, called his son a loyal, responsible commander who sought to make life as easy as possible on the soldiers he oversaw.
So it looks like I got the right guy but then again there are a lot of New Brunswick cops (its a college town with way too many homeless... sort of a mini San Fran).