Missing slay file
Innocent men convicted
Isidore Adelson, known as Itchy, was a fan of science fiction shows such as “Star Trek” and “Lost in Space,” his daughters said. The Adelsons met at a Harry Chapin concert in Eisenhower Park in Westbury.
Speaking in front of the two caskets covered in a black cloth embroidered with a white Star of David, Beth Yudin drew laughs when she joked about a potentially awkward meeting in the afterlife.
“Dad, I hope that you’re captain of the ship now. You’ve moved on to the next adventure,” she said. “There's only one problem: What is my mother Janice going to say when you show up with Helen together?”
Yudin’s sister Monica Reiner noted that the couple were on their way to a wedding and only 20 minutes from home when the accident took place.
“Our father and Helen truly had an amazing love together and life together,” Reiner said. “Never missing a beat.” THE CITY CLAIMS it cannot locate the NYPD’s original homicide file for a 1992 triple murder case that resulted in the wrongful convictions of two men, the Daily News has learned.
Lawyers for Anthony Yarbough, who served nearly 22 years behind bars before he was cleared by DNA evidence, have been trying to obtain the file.
It contains information crucial to their suit alleging he was framed by detectives in the fatal stabbings of his mother, his 12-year-old half-sister and her 12-year-old friend.
It now appears the file was either washed out to sea or thrown out with the waterlogged debris from the flooded 60th Precinct stationhouse in Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy.
It was believed that a prosecutor had the file, but that lead turned out to be false.
Yarbough’s lawyer, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, said they have been trying to get the homicide file for seven years.
“We have been met with nothing but stalling and obfuscation until now,” Margulis-Ohnuma said.
A Law Department spokesman pointed out that while the file may be lost, the city has produced copies of most documents related to the probe.