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Date Posted: 13:07:51 11/22/02 Fri
Author: Andrea
Subject: Vinnie and his family are in my thoughts and prayers!

Hi!
Vinnie and his family are in my thoughts and prayers. I feel so badly for them. They have been though so much. Actually, too much! I just hope that they get some closure from the verdict of the trial. I pray for justice. I also pray that Vinnie makes a comeback! He truely deserves the best in life!

I will post the latest trial news below along with links in case you missed any part of the story or trial.
Andrea
Pensacola, FL

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Man charged in escort slaying upset by photos

Andrew Blejwas, Register Staff November 22, 2002

HARTFORD � Annmarie Cusano was repeatedly warned not to meet with the man now on trial for killing her, the operator of an escort service testified Thursday in the fourth day of the murder trial in Superior Court in Hartford.
Gabriel Gladstone, who ran the escort service where Cusano worked part time, testified that he tried to discourage her from going to Hartford to meet Gregory McArthur the night she died in January 1998.

"I told her who called, what he did for a living and I discouraged her from going on the appointment (and) that I didn�t approve of it," said Gladstone.

Cusano, the Shelton mother of twin daughters, was 42 when she took the appointment through Gladstone�s escort service.

On Thursday, Gladstone, 74, and serving a 13-year sentence for running a prostitution ring, testified that his "firm" catered to wealthy and prominent clientele from the New Haven area and his company ran background checks on all potential clients.

"Attorneys at Yale or directors of firms or plays called us � Most of our customers were from Westport or academic areas of New Haven � If they were professors we wanted to know what they professed or what they taught," said Gladstone.

Gladstone testified that while McArthur passed the company�s checks, he advised Cusano against taking the appointment at McArthur�s rooming house at 550 Prospect Ave. in Hartford.

Public defender David Smith suggested later that Gladstone recommended Cusano not take the appointment because McArthur is "African-American." Gladstone denied making such a recommendation and Judge Joseph Koletsky ordered the exchange stricken from the record after prosecutor Gary Nicholson�s objection.

Gladstone said Cusano ignored his advice and took the appointment with McArthur who at the time was working at Dunkin� Donuts.

"She called and said, �Well, I�m going to go and see how it is,�" Gladstone said.

Later that evening, Gladstone testified, he received another call from Cusano. This time she said she was not happy with her appointment and was heading home. That was the last time Gladstone or anybody else is known to have talked to Cusano.

After police forensic laboratory experts testified that McArthur�s fingerprints were found on Cusano�s burgundy Mazda and a plastic garbage bag full of bloody clothes, Hartford police detective Michael Sheldon testified that McArthur led police to Cusano�s body in Suffield.

During proceedings Thursday, McArthur sobbed uncontrollably when photographs of her skull were introduced as evidence.

Sheldon described searching for the body in the Suffield woods after McArthur was extradited from a Boston prison in September 2000.

"We started to go (into) the woods. He said, "I know I put her around here somewhere, it�s in this area," Sheldon said.

Nicholson then introduced a series of photographs depicting the wooded area and presented them to the defense. The series included a picture of Cusano�s skull partially covered with vegetation.

While viewing the pictures McArthur turned his head away, then put his hand to his face and started crying.

Judge Koletsky then ordered a recess but 20 minutes after court restarted, McArthur again became upset and appeared to begin gagging.

Sheldon said that McArthur had a different reaction when he led police to the remains.

"He shrugged his shoulders and didn�t appear to have any emotion at all, to me," he said.

Koletsky ordered a second recess. Later, a videotape of the spot where police found Cusano�s remains was shown to the jury out of McArthur�s sight.

The trial resumes today with Hartford Detective James Rovella expected to take the stand.

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Andrew Blejwas can be reached at ablejwas@nhregister.com , or 734-2813.

�New Haven Register 2002

http://www.newhavenregister.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1281&dept_id=7573&pag=628&search=1&full=Cusano

http://www.kissasylum.com/archive/
(scroll down and click on info on Vinnie Vincent's exwifes' dissapearance)

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Re: Vinnie and his family are in my thoughts and prayers! -- Lady Wizard, 18:30:40 11/28/02 Thu