It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
That Smile
Her smile gets to us. We will dig a little deeper.
On May 23, 1984, a 14 year old named Laura Parker goes missing from Lindenhurst High School. She is seen at her last period class. But she does not show up for her high school team soft ball practice. The practice starts right after school lets out. She loves softball. She would not miss a practice.
She Ran Away
The SCPD claim to have launched an extensive investigation that determined that unnamed friends saw Laura in the Lindenhurst area. As a result the SCPD make the determination that …
“Laura ran away.”
Laura’s family is simple working class Suffolk. They wonder aloud to the media as to what would cause Laura to run away. Laura’s father wonders if it’s because Laura got several poor grades. He doubts it though. He recalls that he “just finished hammering the last nail into their new deck.” To celebrate he told Laura that she could have a party.
At lunch shortly before she went missing Laura told a close friend in the cafeteria about the planned party. Her friend described her mood as “bubbly.” Laura’s school locker contained her purse, make-up kit, diary and glasses. Laura would not just run away without those items.
One might think that someone took Laura from her high school. That would hurt the morale of taxpayers. Undaunted by logic the SCPD terminated the search for Laura.
Look at the diary you fools!
Laura’s parents beg her to call them like the police assure them she will. Her parents leave their number with the local paper. The paper prints it along with a plea from Laura’s parents to the public to call them if they have any information. And the sick crank calls immediately commenced from the loving Suffolk County citizenry.
Oh No
On September 10, 1984, three and a half months after she disappeared the body of 14 year old Laura Parker is found in the woods in Lindenhurst.
In the woods near North Monroe Street where Laura is found – two miles from her home – Suffolk County kids had what they called “the Hut.” The Hut is a hole in the ground about four and a half feet deep and about eleven feet in diameter. Kids covered the hole with old plywood.
Teenagers spent time together in the Hut on a regular basis from May 23, 1984 to September 10, 1984 when they found Laura. This was a Long Island ritual of rebellion from a bygone era. Kids smoked cigarettes at these hangouts. Drank beer. Looked at nudie magazines. I remember.
Three teenagers went into the hut to tidy it up. They removed some debris, saw a shoe. Upon further investigation they found a skull in a rolled up carpet. These rebellious teenagers rushed home to their moms who came to the Hut where they saw poor Laura’s skeletal remains.
Murder by Natural Causes
Police now changed their tune. They opined that she died the day she went missing. None other than SCPD Chief of Detectives John F. Gallagher further opined …
“the feeling is she may have died of natural causes.”
The sheer idiocy of Gallagher cannot be underestimated for that would mean that on May 25, 1984, Laura rolled herself up in a carpet. Then threw herself into the Hut and simply died while lying face down. She could not have frozen to death because it was a hot summer. Complex bone marrow testing showed absolutely no drugs in her system.
The SCPD could not Shannan Gilbert this one. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfrEsv7cNOM&t=39s
And there Laura lay rotting in the sweltering heat as teenagers spent time together with – unbeknownst to them – a corpse. All this rotting and hanging out happened inside a hole in the ground. But it took the kids three and a half months to find out – after the body turned into a skeleton.
Fourteen year old healthy female athletes disappear from their high schools just before softball practice. Then they spontaneously die and end up in ditches where kids spend time together.
Oh this is not the same Gallagher – the comedian – that smashed watermelons and such with a huge sledgehammer. No this a funnier comedian.
Every Cop is a Criminal
Convicted on September 27, 1990 of conspiring to portray his son Timothy as a police informant so he could avoid jail Gallagher faced up to seven years in prison. He got almost nothing.
Gallagher had a subordinate write a letter for his son after Timothy’s arrest in 1984 for selling cocaine to an undercover officer. The letter said Timothy Gallagher cooperated with the police as an informant against other drug dealers.
He did no such thing.
Timothy Gallagher got probation for selling Cocaine. That never happened in Rockefeller Drug Laws New York State. Black people got life for that.
She Belongs to the Podcasts Now
Laura’s family buried her ashes near their church.
The SCPD attempted to cast aspersive innuendo upon Laura’s father stating that some unnamed kids said she was “fighting with her father.” Meanwhile her father walked the streets every night looking for her. Every single day he combed the area. He hung up “fliers on the beach, on poles, on trees.” So said Mr. Parker’s neighbor a Mrs. Carroll Brennan. “What more can you say of a parent?” He searched from Lindenhurst all the way to and throughout Manhattan.
Mr. Parker no longer had many words for the media. He said, “I had three and a half months of false hope. I wish I had three and a half months back.” Mr. Parker was a man much like my father. What he tried to say is this: he wished he had Laura back. She was an angelic tom-boy with eyes that smiled as big as a 14 year old could dream.
The case is unsolved. She belongs to the Podcasts now.
SCPD Cover Up
Official information is sparse. The SCPD covered it up. Some theorize that the entire town covered it up. It makes sense doesn’t it.
Because it is Just Stupid
If it were covered up someone with some sort of power would have to be involved. And low and behold as soon as I mentioned that I received information in an interview too scant to fully discuss. I am not afraid to name names. But not when it is this scant. I just can’t.
The information points to the involvement of the son of a Suffolk County Detective. This Detective’s son watched Laura get murdered. The killer died of a drug overdose in 2005. I ran it down. They – Detective and two sons – lived in Lindenhurst at the time of Laura Parker’s disappearance. The Detective still lives. Evil never dies.
The identity of the killer is probably in her diary. We haven’t been able to locate it. But I know who killed her. So do many in the community. https://raymondzuppa.com/maga-land/
Sound track please …