Just when you thought you saw everything...

... a West Haven groom disappears a day after his wedding with the wedding money and turns up three days later, still in his tux, soaked, bloody and claiming he was kidnapped, held for days, beaten, robbed and stuffed in the trunk of his own car.
Cops theorize he went on a drug binge, spent all the money and then staged the whole thing after, I suppose, he had a moment of lucidity and realized he had some explaining to do.
I would have loved to interview the wife. She already filed a criminal complaint with West Haven and I suspect might have had a lot to say. Or maybe she would have slammed the door in my face.
Cops wouldn't identify her or give his address because, presumably, it would lead to her.
NHPD cops are bad that way. They release next to no information, ostensibly, to protect the integrity of the investigation (which is bull. Some facts you keep close to the vest, sure, but New Haven takes it to an extreme. How many shell casings were recovered? Several. How did the burglar gain entry? We're not getting into that. Do we have a motive? Not that we're releasing.
What's the harm in saying, six, cut the screen and went through a kitchen window and that the shooting appears to have been drug related but it's still early in the investigation and sometimes things change as the probe progresses.)
Get an address of a homicide victim? Forget it. I've been told that's to protect the family from intrusion, which I can respect as noble but is a decision that the family should be able to make. There was a homicide victim this year, a teen who was killed in Edgewood Park, whose family was actually upset that the media wasn't paying due attention to their son's slaying, like his life was less meaningful than other victims who got more coverage.
Really, when it comes down to it, shouldn't it be the family's choice. If I knock on the door and tell me to go away, I will.

Shown The Door?

Did Cisco Ortiz, the outgoing police chief, leave of his own accord as the City Hall fell all over themselves saying or , like former Fire Chief Dennis Daniels, did the mayor show him the door. My gut tells me it was the latter, but no one from City Hall would ever admit it. The mayor doesn't like controversy and, according to script, city powerbrokers made the company line clear. As Rob Smuts, the city's CAO, put it, who could begrudge a good opportunity for a good guy.
Anyone who follows the p.d. knows the relationship between the mayor and Ortiz was, at times, strained and some people would argue the "at times" is too generous. So, did Ortiz land the security at Yale on his own and make his decision on his own terms or did the mayor, looking for a way to jettison the chief without it being blatantly obvious that he jettisoned the chief, make some calls to Yale to make sure Ortiz had a soft landing and a nice press conference.
Dunno. And City Hall will never tell.