Speaker 1: Hey, good evening everybody, and welcome to Calling All beings.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be the normal uh dj intro
Speaker 1: that you hear, and that even worse heard when we
Speaker 1: did our high school show where we we we brought
Speaker 1: it are just the way that we do on Calling
Speaker 1: All Beings. But I'm not going to hear that today.
Speaker 1: It's a very difficult day. So let me first, uh
Speaker 1: just hello, Bia.
Speaker 2: How are you, buddy good?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I am well?
Speaker 1: Thank you for all of your support over the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours since this young lady below, who is
Speaker 1: my friend, Orse or Selena is her name, My Italian
Speaker 1: paison from back home, whom I believe we've known each
Speaker 1: other since kindergarten and at the latest first grade yep,
Speaker 1: and whom I got to go drive around with and
Speaker 1: share memories when I was in home in January, before
Speaker 1: I had the.
Speaker 2: Meal of food with you guys. Aw, so welcome.
Speaker 3: Worse, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I got to talk to you this
Speaker 2: evening a little bit.
Speaker 1: We got to kind of kick around some ideas and
Speaker 1: I didn't know if any of my classmates were going
Speaker 1: to take me up on coming on this episode.
Speaker 2: I have pasted in the chat for.
Speaker 1: You the news store if you want to see and
Speaker 1: we're gonna say hello to everybody here in a second.
Speaker 1: There is a news story I where I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the one that Or sent me yesterday,
Speaker 1: where Tony's father was interviewed, Anthony Barrello.
Speaker 2: And I really liked it because it wasn't just.
Speaker 1: The police talking about it in the Newspeople, but I
Speaker 1: got to see and hear from Tony's dad, Anthony Burrello.
Speaker 1: So let me say hello to everybody and then we
Speaker 1: can recede with talking about Tony. Bear in mind, this
Speaker 1: episode could be fifteen minutes. This episode could be twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: This episode could be thirty minutes. It definitely won't be
Speaker 1: more than an hour. There it is right there if
Speaker 1: you want to go to that link and I want
Speaker 1: to say hello Cat Lady, our new moderator, how are
Speaker 1: you my friend? And hello Ken from England who was
Speaker 1: one of our great fans that tunes in all the
Speaker 1: time from Ing. We really appreciate you. Let me know
Speaker 1: if I miss anybody. This is Julie, our long standing
Speaker 1: moderator who's been with us from UFO's Bigfoot Air normal
Speaker 1: and now true crime. This is, of course, is Boston
Speaker 1: ba who is to over your left shoulder there worse
Speaker 1: Hello and.
Speaker 2: Diane, Hello, Diane, thank you for stopping in.
Speaker 1: It's not a it's not a happy occasion, but we
Speaker 1: were going to do a live chat and I wanted
Speaker 1: to dedicate it. I wanted to dedicate the show to
Speaker 1: this young lady.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find the screenshot that
Speaker 1: I made of Tony right here?
Speaker 2: Did it pop? There we go and there.
Speaker 1: She is, the very tough and rugged and beautiful Tony
Speaker 1: Lynn Burello, our classmate, and we have more that we'll
Speaker 1: share of her.
Speaker 2: But that's uh.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get this one up there, so I
Speaker 1: put it on the artwork last night when I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you can still do an episode, but I
Speaker 1: want to dedicate it to Tony Lynn. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take this off the screen because I want to give
Speaker 1: the screen to ors right now.
Speaker 2: Oops. I want to give the screen to ors right
Speaker 2: now to talk about and what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: You see the empty street right now, and we're using
Speaker 1: the empty street background because we feel empty. But we're
Speaker 1: going to make this a little closer and now orse,
Speaker 1: would you tell us what happened?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 3: I quite honestly, it was just a shock. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm watching my local news and the next thing I know,
Speaker 3: I see a picture and I'm just like, gosh, that
Speaker 3: looks like Tony. It was just very surreal, quite a
Speaker 3: shock and very sad, just very sad. It's it's I
Speaker 3: don't know, just very sad. I just didn't know what
Speaker 3: to think. I mean, it was just it was just
Speaker 3: so surreal, like what am I seeing this? This doesn't happen,
Speaker 3: this is this doesn't happen to people I know. This,
Speaker 3: this happens to somebody else, doesn't happen to us. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I think Dave, I called you, I called Christine and yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a shock still is.
Speaker 1: Can can you explain? I'd like to if you would.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Patty Murphy. I appreciate it, ma'am,
Speaker 1: and thank you. Ken's wife. Boo is here, Hi Boo from.
Speaker 2: England also, and standing Stones's here. Could you please tell
Speaker 2: us what happened?
Speaker 1: And then after that I'll ask you to contextualize our
Speaker 1: high school class for everybody that's watching, But could you
Speaker 1: please first just tell us what happened?
Speaker 3: Well, based on what I saw in the news. It
Speaker 3: was just they found her in a hotel room dead. Apparently,
Speaker 3: according to the police, she had been dating this guy
Speaker 3: on and off. I think they said for a couple
Speaker 3: of months. He was a sexual offender. How that was known,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Apparently the dad knew. Her dad knew
Speaker 3: and honestly had asked her not to date him. But
Speaker 3: I guess she just didn't see it being an issue.
Speaker 3: And here we are to shock.
Speaker 1: Tony was a tough girl. She was a tough girl
Speaker 1: in high school. I think she was fairly people would
Speaker 1: have described.
Speaker 2: Her that way.
Speaker 1: She was dating older guys in middle school, and even
Speaker 1: in high school she dated guys that were out of
Speaker 1: high school. She went to the junior prom with a
Speaker 1: Marine Corps guy and then another older guy showed up
Speaker 1: so as well.
Speaker 2: So Tony was a girl that was a tough girl,
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 1: Very comfortable being around guys that might have had some
Speaker 1: element of danger. And I think that's why when her
Speaker 1: father tried to warn her off of this man whose
Speaker 1: name was Carlos Caban.
Speaker 2: I don't remember his middle name, but.
Speaker 1: Is Carlos Caban Tito, Tito, thank you Carlos Tito caban
Speaker 1: would I don't know, I don't know be it does
Speaker 1: that sound like a Tito's a very popular name in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, but it could be yeah, But anyway, um,
Speaker 1: and so she probably felt if a situation.
Speaker 2: Comes up, I can handle it. Now. Tony now has.
Speaker 1: Had multiple back surgeries, neck surgeries, and so forth, she
Speaker 1: had a lot of problems with her musculo skeletal situation
Speaker 1: and that would make her not as capable. And even still,
Speaker 1: the police indicated that there was definitely a struggle to
Speaker 1: where Tony did not simply give in to whatever he
Speaker 1: was trying to do, and she fought, which is the
Speaker 1: Tony that we know. At one point she fought the biggest,
Speaker 1: toughest girl in our high school that would have.
Speaker 2: Scared guys and Tony, Tony fought that girl.
Speaker 1: So that gives you an idea of you know, Tony
Speaker 1: was sort of fearless and in that way. Though those
Speaker 1: of you who don't know my age, I'm coming up
Speaker 1: upon my fortieth high school reunion, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1: But ors can tell you that we do organize. We
Speaker 1: do organize buy annual get togethers with our high school classmates,
Speaker 1: one of which culminated in me leaving and heading to
Speaker 1: Massachusetts to spend the evening with the day and the
Speaker 1: evening with you guys instead of going home.
Speaker 2: But can you explain to.
Speaker 1: People what our high school class is like and why
Speaker 1: this would be a big deal for us.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks to Dave, you got us together again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's true you did, and unfortunately it started really one
Speaker 3: another great loss to our family. Andrea, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that's when you started getting us all together and
Speaker 3: which it's really been a great thing, and all of
Speaker 3: us just really love getting together and seeing one another.
Speaker 3: It's very special, it's very unique, it's.
Speaker 2: Very we feel very close.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to know what's happening with everybody else wherever
Speaker 1: they are in the United States, what's going on, And
Speaker 1: if you're in the same city as that person, you
Speaker 1: want to go and visit with them or go and
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 2: Hangout with them.
Speaker 1: And as Ors did when Tony, she found out Tony
Speaker 1: was in Florida and close enough by, they went in,
Speaker 1: they hung out, and it's just kind of what people
Speaker 1: from our school did. Our school was called Hendrick Hudson
Speaker 1: High School, named after the Dutch explode or who sailed
Speaker 1: up the Hudson River, and now I'm trying to on
Speaker 1: this ship called the half Moon.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the iconography of my.
Speaker 1: School is is that the half Moon and so forth.
Speaker 1: I'll probably put something up on the screen, put our
Speaker 1: school logo up on here, and so instead of seeing
Speaker 1: Hendrik Kutson, we call ourselves hen Hud short and it
Speaker 1: there's an immediate connection when you meet somebody from hen
Speaker 1: Hud and it's really weird. And to give you sort
Speaker 1: of an example, I was in when I was in
Speaker 1: southern California. I mean, you couldn't be a whole lot
Speaker 1: further away from hen Hud than you are in the
Speaker 1: United States when you're living in like the Laguna Neguel
Speaker 1: Laguna Beach area. And one of my classmates lived a
Speaker 1: few towns over in a city called Ladera Ranch, and
Speaker 1: I remember going over for her birthday because her birthday
Speaker 1: is also my birthday. So I went over to her
Speaker 1: how her beautiful home for a party, and there's a
Speaker 1: pool there and it's just like wow, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And when I went there, there were two
Speaker 1: women there from home that she had said, Oh, here's
Speaker 1: so and so and so and so. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know them, but as soon as I knew they were
Speaker 1: from hen Hud, it was like two magnets coming together.
Speaker 1: And the only people that I wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: that night was Sharon, the girl who had the party,
Speaker 1: and those two ladies from hen Hud, And I don't
Speaker 1: even know who they are, and I don't care who
Speaker 1: they are, but those are the three people that I
Speaker 1: wanted to hang out with. And I really didn't care
Speaker 1: about talking to anybody else at the party, so that
Speaker 1: giving and I was constantly with, you know, like with
Speaker 1: my arm out with Sharon, you know, just I can't
Speaker 1: really explain it, But did I explain? This makes sense?
Speaker 1: Bea what are you thinking right now? You're on mute?
Speaker 4: I know, no, I mean I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 5: I mean a lot of us leave high school and
Speaker 5: just kind of leave it behind. And I think I
Speaker 5: admire that you guys have stayed friends for so long
Speaker 5: and just continue and are consistent, because that's what it takes, right,
Speaker 5: It's being consistent and always showing up. So I mean,
Speaker 5: it's amazing that you can still refer to your high
Speaker 5: school friends forty years almost forty years later, as you know,
Speaker 5: my friend like, so this connection is deep.
Speaker 3: So I admire that totally.
Speaker 2: It's my family, you know, it really is my family.
Speaker 1: My family is jealous to a degree of the relationship
Speaker 1: that I have with these guys, and that that's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about, and that that anticipation is I'm driving
Speaker 1: up the what's the Palisades Parkway towards Bear Mountain, you know,
Speaker 1: knowing that I'm you know, I'm this close to being
Speaker 1: able to see my friends. It never you think, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's going to get old by now. It never gets old.
Speaker 1: It never gets old. It's just I feel at home
Speaker 1: and there's nothing better. It's like Dorothy, there's no place
Speaker 1: like home.
Speaker 2: So yep.
Speaker 1: So it's under this framework that let me see if
Speaker 1: I can get Tony's And it.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you're the glue that kind of keeps it
Speaker 4: all together.
Speaker 3: DJ. So he is, yeah, where's the picture of the shirts?
Speaker 1: Okay that they got those shirts that you know, what
Speaker 1: a difference that Dave makes and it's it's actually very
Speaker 1: I was very embarrassed, but very honored nonetheless, and there's
Speaker 1: Tony and it Yeah, I don't want to I really
Speaker 1: don't want to dive into any credit or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that we're doing it. But there's Tony.
Speaker 1: You can see what a beautiful lady she was. And
Speaker 1: he could, you know, be dressed up and look like
Speaker 1: that and uh into her fifties and she was.
Speaker 2: That's her daughter. She was at one point.
Speaker 1: A successful business owner. And she was so injured that
Speaker 1: I believe that's an ex husband. I'm not sure. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's her in Florida, but she really was. You can
Speaker 1: see if you look into those eyes, you can you
Speaker 1: can see, am I am I full screen?
Speaker 2: Now? Am I looking good over there? Yah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, okay, just let me know because I have
Speaker 1: to be on the other tab looking at this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, looks good.
Speaker 5: She's yeah, she's where on the side and she's in
Speaker 5: the middle.
Speaker 2: Ye look at those eyes.
Speaker 4: Huh m hm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And she suffered a lot in life. She went through
Speaker 1: a lot of challenges. This is Kim Acapinti. She's one
Speaker 1: of our classmates.
Speaker 2: I don't know who Marie is.
Speaker 1: If you guys know Marie there, don't I don't recognize her,
Speaker 1: But that's Kim. She's another one of our wonderful classmates
Speaker 1: that we'll see there in October. And there's the photo
Speaker 1: I ended up using for the artwork there, Tony be Bold,
Speaker 1: get it back, and that could kind of give you
Speaker 1: a window into Tony's life to a degree.
Speaker 2: I want to show the.
Speaker 1: Prom photo also because I sent this to a friend
Speaker 1: last night. That was her son, and you guys see
Speaker 1: that that is her son. But I want to show
Speaker 1: this photo from the prom right here. Man, this is
Speaker 1: junior prom. Do you remember this one?
Speaker 2: Orse?
Speaker 3: I didn't. Actually I didn't go to junior, well, Archie,
Speaker 3: I went to a different junior, Okay, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: did go to our senior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there I know. I know you did because
Speaker 1: you were at my table. Yeah, you were at my table.
Speaker 1: I have that prom photo somewhere.
Speaker 2: You and yeah, Amy, Yeah it was with Amy. Amy.
Speaker 1: Amy bow guarded her way onto that even after she
Speaker 1: broke up with me.
Speaker 2: She bo guarded it away into.
Speaker 1: The the the prom. But I ended up spending the
Speaker 1: after problem with Tricia Bill, so as I mentioned to you,
Speaker 1: And that's so that was that was really awesome, spending
Speaker 1: the after I dropped Amy off right after the prom,
Speaker 1: and then Chrisia Bill and I went to the parties
Speaker 1: and and it was good because Tricia Bill really really
Speaker 1: liked me and admired me a lot, but wrote, what's
Speaker 1: that sweet girl? Yeah, yeah, there's Tony with our class president,
Speaker 1: Maria Morbido, or she was our president be because this
Speaker 1: is junior year. Senior year. She went and ran and
Speaker 1: she's a phenomenal lady. And the work that she does
Speaker 1: in the community is amazing. What Maria does in the
Speaker 1: community with her food pantry, she gets tons of food,
Speaker 1: household items, prom dresses, clothing donated and then people drive
Speaker 1: to her facility and they're able to load up. I
Speaker 1: actually got to go and help her stock up a
Speaker 1: little bit when I was.
Speaker 2: There a couple of days before.
Speaker 1: I saw you be a in Massachusetts. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: Tony was Yeah, She's just a stunner, a very special lady.
Speaker 1: And the thing I want to say, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna drag this on too long here.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 1: When life throws a lot of and thank you Ken
Speaker 1: for all your kind words, and the cat Lady and
Speaker 1: all of you guys, thank you so much for everything
Speaker 1: that you're saying.
Speaker 2: And not that I'm not seeing them, I'm just trying.
Speaker 1: I really want to make this relatively quick, and then
Speaker 1: I want to get us out of here.
Speaker 2: Tony.
Speaker 1: You know, there were a lot of challenges that Tony
Speaker 1: faced in life and Worsa and I had the misfortune
Speaker 1: to have several classmates commit suicide because things were extremely
Speaker 1: challenging for them. And Tony, despite all the things that
Speaker 1: I know of and that ORS knows of and we're
Speaker 1: not going to share those with you for obvious reasons,
Speaker 1: she fought off those challenges and never gave up and
Speaker 1: never quit and always thought that photo I saw there,
Speaker 1: you can get it back. We find that that photo again,
Speaker 1: I have to scroll up a little bit.
Speaker 2: There you go, be bold, get it back.
Speaker 1: What a metaphor that is right that somebody could go
Speaker 1: through those things and say I'm not going to quit,
Speaker 1: you know, challenges with marriages, with men, with her kids,
Speaker 1: moving up the coast to New York and Jersey and
Speaker 1: back down in situations making that you know, and it's
Speaker 1: just a lot of tumult in one's life. What is
Speaker 1: the value to each of you that has a stable life.
Speaker 1: You have a stable home, You have a stable home
Speaker 1: life environment where you feel safe, where you feel loved,
Speaker 1: and you feel comfortable, and that's what keeps you from
Speaker 1: feeling challenged every day to maintain your mental state. Tony
Speaker 1: didn't have that, but she was able to fight off
Speaker 1: those challenges and not leave and say I've got to
Speaker 1: find another way out. She fought her way out of that.
Speaker 1: The the types of medication that they give you for
Speaker 1: a back injury can get you hooked on these medications
Speaker 1: because when your back hurts, anybody here who has hurt
Speaker 1: their lower back or hurt their backs, you can't do anything.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything, you can't move, you can barely
Speaker 1: get out of bed. And that's how people get hooked
Speaker 1: on muscle relaxers.
Speaker 2: And pain medication.
Speaker 1: And Tony was able to fight all exactly right, Sheridy
Speaker 1: was able to fight all of those things off to
Speaker 1: continue in life. You just made a bad choice, like
Speaker 1: all of us, do you know, we all make bad choices.
Speaker 1: We don't often pay for those with our lives.
Speaker 2: We all have put ourselves orse. You've been around, you've
Speaker 2: been around the country.
Speaker 1: You've been in some situations that probably could have were
Speaker 1: hairy or could have gotten a little scary, whether that
Speaker 1: was down the shore other plate right, Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: somehow you emerged and you made it out of those
Speaker 1: situations and you kind of like, man, I dodged a
Speaker 1: bullet there.
Speaker 3: Yep. I could say that that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And that this just happened to be one of those
Speaker 1: situations where that that that did not happen where this
Speaker 1: person was. Hello, please pass the pepper. Thank you love.
Speaker 1: She's a friend of ours from New York. Please pass
Speaker 1: the pepper. Not only came to our meal food in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: she is from the New York born and raised. So
Speaker 1: what thirty six miles from where we're from? And I
Speaker 1: said that earlier, is that where we thirty six miles
Speaker 1: in the country from the country where we grew up.
Speaker 1: It's not uncommon to say, yeah, my friend got gunned down,
Speaker 1: my friend in the Bronx. You know, my friend was murdered.
Speaker 1: These things are not unusual stories between high school friends
Speaker 1: in the Bronx that grew up. But where we come from,
Speaker 1: this does not happen. No, the kind of crap that's
Speaker 1: happened with the Karen Reid case and Canton and all that,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen in our town.
Speaker 2: It does not happen.
Speaker 1: We're not that dirty as the Albert family is and
Speaker 1: they're disgusting friends.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is very very strange. This is very
Speaker 2: out of character.
Speaker 1: We have not had a classmate murdered in forty years.
Speaker 1: The medication they tried to give me over the years
Speaker 1: could have had me hooked to have pill one. I
Speaker 1: am confused from the bottom to neck in various places,
Speaker 1: crushed by a drunk driver. Holistic is mandatory, So yeah,
Speaker 1: she police passed the pepper. Has also suffered those types
Speaker 1: of injuries where you can get hooked on medication. So
Speaker 1: let me talk to text. Let me rephrase. Now I
Speaker 1: totally understand. I talk to text all the time, and
Speaker 1: it screws it.
Speaker 6: Up for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ken is saying, DJ, you have honored your friend,
Speaker 1: your friend today, hold your memories close as we all
Speaker 1: know on here. You're a very special person, DJ, and
Speaker 1: Beatri's and love to your friend. Orse Ken is just
Speaker 1: I mean to have somebody that watches your show every
Speaker 1: week like he does from England, so now it's you
Speaker 1: know what sticks seven hours ahead for him? I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you think a person like
Speaker 1: this that shows up and supports us and says you're
Speaker 1: doing a great job.
Speaker 2: You know it's very different. You know, you can't think
Speaker 2: of them enough.
Speaker 3: We've got our buddy, Audrey, who she's where. She says
Speaker 3: she can't log in.
Speaker 2: Tell her to use her phone.
Speaker 1: Let me send her the I will send her the
Speaker 1: Let me send her the link on on text message.
Speaker 2: If she's got an iPhone.
Speaker 1: This will be easy. Audrey hair State school. Audrey also
Speaker 1: her father was a police officer.
Speaker 2: I want to say in New Rochelle.
Speaker 1: And okay, kiss, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: Uh, her father and her and her her family had
Speaker 1: a daytime UFO experience. It's one of the most prolific
Speaker 1: you'll ever hear. With a ginormous black triangle flying over
Speaker 1: our town during the day. So how do you explain
Speaker 1: that one big, silent black triangle? All right, we'll see
Speaker 1: if Audrey can join us. Thank you, Ken, I appreciate.
Speaker 1: So let's let's see what Please pass the pepper, he
Speaker 1: says here.
Speaker 2: Let me get to this and I'll get to you. Ken.
Speaker 2: The medication doctors give you can have you hooked from
Speaker 2: pill number one.
Speaker 1: That's what she means. I am fused means she probably
Speaker 1: has vertebrate fused and so forth. Yeah, holistic is necessary,
Speaker 1: follow your gut. Yes, I disagree with you.
Speaker 2: I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I have had a holistic remedy to my acid reflux fail.
Speaker 1: But it works in a lot of situations. That's why
Speaker 1: we try not to deal in absolutes. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see if Audrey, Okay, what I'm gonna do here be
Speaker 1: a and or so I'm gonna turn it over to you,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna call Audrey.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's just you and I.
Speaker 5: So we did have a question earlier and I someone
Speaker 5: I believe Julie, asked if the person was caught, and
Speaker 5: I believe based on that news clip, they were.
Speaker 3: They were, Okay, yeah, according to the news exactly, I
Speaker 3: believe they said they were. He was caught in Georgia,
Speaker 3: and then Palm Beach County officers were on their way
Speaker 3: up there today to go get him. He actually was
Speaker 3: in Tony's stolen car with another woman that he apparently
Speaker 3: met in Orlando. Wow, it's crazy. I don't understand. I
Speaker 3: don't get it. And how this woman even in Orlando
Speaker 3: who just met him. And I guess the comment was
Speaker 3: he said something like, oh, he was going to New
Speaker 3: York and she's like oh, well, I have nothing to
Speaker 3: do for the next few days. Sure, I'll go with you.
Speaker 3: What does this world come to? I mean, she could
Speaker 3: be his next victim. She could have been his next
Speaker 3: victim exactly. So I don't understand. I just don't. I
Speaker 3: don't get it. I don't get it makes absolutely no
Speaker 3: sense to me. None. Yeah, Shane, it's sad, it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Gosh, I don't know. It's I'm just at a loss,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: I mean the stages of grief.
Speaker 5: I mean it's just you know, you guys as they're
Speaker 5: all just in shock right now, and it's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I said, just very surreal. Like I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just didn't make any sense to me. I just didn't.
Speaker 3: But maybe.
Speaker 1: Okay, my friends, So I sent Audrey the Google Voice number.
Speaker 2: So if you're listening right now.
Speaker 1: Audie, I, if you call that number, I will answer
Speaker 1: on Google Voice and you can talk on air.
Speaker 2: You won't be on camera, which I know is okay
Speaker 2: with you. You've done both. Yeah, Like, it took me
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 1: Once I got her on camera, everyone's like, damn man,
Speaker 1: look how good Audrey looks.
Speaker 2: Remember with making waves?
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you want to call in, Audie, and
Speaker 1: you want to talk about just tell a you know,
Speaker 1: an anecdote about Tony. You can call that number. It
Speaker 1: is seven one nine six zero two four four six four,
Speaker 1: and and then you could be I can just pipe
Speaker 1: you right in. Everybody will hear you on audio.
Speaker 2: So there's that.
Speaker 1: But now it looks like she's she said, it's okay,
Speaker 1: I'm listening in. Thank you for honoring our classmate in front.
Speaker 1: So maybe she won't call in. I would love her
Speaker 1: to do, because she just told me a couple of
Speaker 1: a couple of anecdotes about Tony coming in in fifth
Speaker 1: grade in the middle of the year, and you know
Speaker 1: how difficult that was. You know, when you have a
Speaker 1: close knit group of kids and somebody coming in, it's
Speaker 1: really really difficult. But Tony was bigger, and Audrey said
Speaker 1: she looked very very or a fifth grader.
Speaker 2: Audrey felt like she looked very very young. Tony did
Speaker 2: not look so young.
Speaker 1: She looked a little, you know, bigger, and so she
Speaker 1: wanted to cozy up to Audrey.
Speaker 2: And the interesting thing is about our school is.
Speaker 1: That there were and I so I'm gonna I will
Speaker 1: tell you about this in a second.
Speaker 2: Ken I'm gonna answer this one, So let me star
Speaker 2: this what you're saying, and I will get right back
Speaker 2: to you. Oh, here goes Audie. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: Mhm. Call from Audrey.
Speaker 3: To accept press one to send a voicement.
Speaker 2: Audie, are you on my dear.
Speaker 6: Bye? You're guilted me into it.
Speaker 2: I'm here, thank you, so go ahead, go ahead or us.
Speaker 2: I'll be quiet.
Speaker 6: No, you are you?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: My friend?
Speaker 6: Are good? I'm calling you from Florida in my mother
Speaker 6: in law's house right down here. We just happened to
Speaker 6: be in Florida. I live in Connecticut. We just happened
Speaker 6: to be in Florida this week to visiting my mother
Speaker 6: in law and my brother in law. And Or sent
Speaker 6: me this horrific story this morning about Tony in Port
Speaker 6: Saint Lucie. And I'm just still in talk about it, yeah,
Speaker 6: and just feel terrible. And I really want to thank
Speaker 6: you gave for, you know, putting this together and honoring Tony.
Speaker 6: And I mean I knew Tony since this grade. And
Speaker 6: even though we traveled in different circles in high school,
Speaker 6: we always remain remained friendly and you know, always would
Speaker 6: pass each other in the hallway and say hi and
Speaker 6: that kind of thing. But you know, we weren't tight
Speaker 6: in high school or anything. But just like Dave was saying,
Speaker 6: you know, especially when you're with elementary school friends, you
Speaker 6: always have this rapport, this mutual rapport, even though you
Speaker 6: go your separate ways in middle school and high school,
Speaker 6: it's always just like mutual respect for one another. And
Speaker 6: that's kind of how you know, my relationship was was
Speaker 6: with Tony after fifth grade. And you know, I remember
Speaker 6: going to her house and meeting her mother, and I
Speaker 6: thought it was her sister, her oldest sister, becauslandmother was
Speaker 6: so young and beautiful, just like Tony. So you know,
Speaker 6: I when she showed told me it was her mother.
Speaker 6: I awa to talk about that. And like Dave said,
Speaker 6: she was a very mature girl. She always dated older
Speaker 6: guys and you know that kind of thing. And you know,
Speaker 6: I looked like I was ten when I was still
Speaker 6: in high school, so we just see different kind of girls.
Speaker 6: But she was always so friendly to me, so I
Speaker 6: never I don't have anything you know, bad to say
Speaker 6: about Tony. She was always very sweet to me, and
Speaker 6: I'm just really sorry for her her daughter and her
Speaker 6: son and her parents. It's just a shock. Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Somebody that battles so hard doesn't deserve I mean, nobody
Speaker 1: deserves this. But some buddy who fought off so many
Speaker 1: difficult situations and demons that would have made people quit
Speaker 1: did not make Tony quit. And that's what was One
Speaker 1: of the extraordinary things about her and the connections we're
Speaker 1: talking about, is that there were essentially at the time
Speaker 1: when Audrey and Orris and I went to school, there
Speaker 1: were three elementary schools. One was called Frank G. Lindsay,
Speaker 1: that's where Audrey went. One was actually there was four.
Speaker 1: One was called Furnace Woods. That's where out a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the country.
Speaker 2: It was a little kind of town ish where Audrey lived.
Speaker 1: There was three villages, Montrose, Buchanan, and Verplank. They were
Speaker 1: famous kind of Revolutionary War kind of villages because they
Speaker 1: were right across from a revolutionary or a battle place
Speaker 1: called a battle site called Stony Point. Audrey and I
Speaker 1: lived a little bit away from there, a little bit
Speaker 1: in the country, So we went to the school called
Speaker 1: Furnace Woods.
Speaker 2: There was another school. Yes, that's what I said, Orse.
Speaker 3: No, you said, I.
Speaker 2: Said, Audrey Okay, I might need to drink. I might
Speaker 2: need to drink. And then there was another kind of
Speaker 2: a city ish school called McKinley. Is that right.
Speaker 1: McKinley was the other one. So there was like there
Speaker 1: was like four Buchanan for Plank and then McKinley.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So essentially, what we're saying to you is that all
Speaker 1: of us have a connection from high school as one group,
Speaker 1: and then inside of that there are these groups of
Speaker 1: the people that went to these different elementary schools together,
Speaker 1: and so there's a certain bond that I have an
Speaker 1: orse and other people Andrea she mentioned earlier, whom we
Speaker 1: lost to cancer, who kicked all this off, we had
Speaker 1: a certain connection that when you look at that person
Speaker 1: and you're in their presence, there's a thing there that's
Speaker 1: unspoken that I can't explain to you. And that's what
Speaker 1: Audrey feels about the people that, like Tony that went
Speaker 1: to Frank G. Lindsey, and probably she has an even
Speaker 1: deeper connection with people where she was there the whole
Speaker 1: you know, the whole six grades if you will, of
Speaker 1: Frank G.
Speaker 2: Lindsey.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're saying, and that's why we feel
Speaker 1: close now. Ken is asking me to talk about I
Speaker 1: want to explain my relationship with Tony. My relationship with Tony,
Speaker 1: I don't remember if it was built around these get togethers.
Speaker 1: It may have been me inviting her because I would
Speaker 1: go on Facebook and invite people to show up, but
Speaker 1: somehow I think it was something on Facebook.
Speaker 2: We ended up messaging one another.
Speaker 1: We exchanged phone numbers and I called her and she's
Speaker 1: probably like, here's this guy, Dave san Marco calling me
Speaker 1: that I never even knew in high school, like she
Speaker 1: I knew her, she knew me, but maybe just okay,
Speaker 1: that's Dave, but she didn't really know. We didn't know
Speaker 1: each other because we were in different groups. But it
Speaker 1: didn't matter. All that matters again, is we both went
Speaker 1: to hen Hunt. That doesn't matter if you hung out
Speaker 1: or didn't hang out. And so I called her and
Speaker 1: she told me about her life, told me about her marriage,
Speaker 1: told me about her struggles, told me about her physical problems,
Speaker 1: made me laugh, just was really adorable and cool and
Speaker 1: loved the fact that I was trying to get her
Speaker 1: to come back to New York to hang out with
Speaker 1: us and say, it's really important to us that you're there.
Speaker 1: Tony and it's I'm so happy to be speaking with you.
Speaker 2: So that was that. That is about.
Speaker 1: Really all I can tell you Ken about Tony. I
Speaker 1: didn't know her in high school. I knew of her.
Speaker 1: She was famous because, like I said, she was a
Speaker 1: tough girl, a spirited girl. She fought the toughest girl
Speaker 1: in the high school, no problems, and she was I
Speaker 1: had a little bit of that bad girl in her.
Speaker 1: But she wasn't a mean girl, to at least what
Speaker 1: I could see now. Now Audrey would say she may.
Speaker 2: Have picked on people. A lot of people picked on people.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: I could tell you ors, I'll tell you one of
Speaker 1: our best friends is Stuart, and Stuart and Jim Balolo
Speaker 1: had a plan to beat me up. Huh yes, in
Speaker 1: ninth grade. Yes, And you know who boiled that plot.
Speaker 1: Brian Benini approached Stuart and said, if you touch San
Speaker 1: Marco or you touched Dave, you're gonna have some big problems.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I did not know this happened. I never
Speaker 1: knew this happened. I didn't even know they were after me.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Brian defended me. But that's what
Speaker 1: happened because I was a little midget in freshman year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so people picking on other people was not uncommon in Hinhud.
Speaker 1: It was a lot more demure when this group that
Speaker 1: you're seeing when us three were there as seniors. But
Speaker 1: when we were freshmen, there was a lot of fights
Speaker 1: in Hinhud.
Speaker 2: You could get beat up.
Speaker 1: There were Oh, I can tell you stories and even
Speaker 1: the year before us or Skip Travis told me a
Speaker 1: lot of stories and taco and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of fights at Henhud. I'm sure that's why my brother
Speaker 1: wasn't there, But you're not going to remember.
Speaker 2: That now, and you're a girl, and you're a girl my.
Speaker 3: Brother tell you some stories or hearing and seeing things
Speaker 3: from my brothers. M well, he was three years older
Speaker 3: than us.
Speaker 1: Yes, there were fights in Hinhud, and you you had
Speaker 1: to be able to defend yourself. And you didn't go
Speaker 1: in that bathroom on the senior hall floor unless at
Speaker 1: certain times of the day, unless you were a particular somebody,
Speaker 1: because if you went that bathroom, you're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: your ass kicked.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I did have a fight in that bathroom, by
Speaker 1: the way, but that was our senior year.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not getting into that right now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one of my wrestling teammates wanted to fight
Speaker 1: me in the bathroom, in that bathroom on Senior Hall
Speaker 1: third that second was second floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh, well.
Speaker 6: I would to the problem.
Speaker 2: We need we need some applause on that one. Hold up, man,
Speaker 2: let me get this.
Speaker 1: This for Audrey, This for Audrey who Stewart, just here
Speaker 1: we go, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Stuart had a crush on Audrey. Apparently Stuart uh
Speaker 1: dated most of well after reading his yearbook. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we lost.
Speaker 2: Another friend to brain cancer.
Speaker 1: And when we commiserated at Stuart's house after the wake,
Speaker 1: I opened up his yearbook and started reading what Curls
Speaker 1: wrote about Stuart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of girls who had a crush
Speaker 2: on Stuart. Yeah correct, ladies, yeah.
Speaker 6: Correct, But we went as friends. I never dated.
Speaker 1: You are so only you could only you could make
Speaker 1: me laugh right now. But but there were I mean
Speaker 1: the quote Stuart will bring that yearbook to our reunion
Speaker 1: and I will read stuff from it. But his wife
Speaker 1: was glaring at me, like, date, what's at I've done
Speaker 1: nothing to hide, no, I know, but Stewart definitely does.
Speaker 1: Because Stella was calling him a pervert.
Speaker 2: It was wild. But his wife was like Dave without.
Speaker 1: Saying it, just her facial expression was Dave, get the
Speaker 1: out of my house. That I mean, she didn't say
Speaker 1: that because she had heard all about Dave. And then
Speaker 1: I show up and she was like, nice to meet you,
Speaker 1: so honored to meet you. And then twenty minutes later
Speaker 1: she's like, get out. Because I was reading all these
Speaker 1: inscriptions in Stuart's I mean, Andrea wrote like two pages
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, all right, we're not going to bore you
Speaker 2: guys for the entire night. We got to.
Speaker 1: I want to wrap this up because I feel so
Speaker 1: much better that you two guys came on here.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 1: So final comments. Let's let's go with Audrey's first, and
Speaker 1: she's on the phone.
Speaker 6: I just I just feel really sad for her family.
Speaker 6: I can see for them. And you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of our classmates were much closer to Tony in the
Speaker 6: you know, later years than I was. I know, Kim
Speaker 6: and Chris, they've got.
Speaker 7: To be really hurting Diane and all of Tony's friends,
Speaker 7: you know, and Diane, it's just you know, I always Kelly,
Speaker 7: I just really always you know had a friendly relationship
Speaker 7: with Tony and she'll be missed.
Speaker 6: I was really looking forward to seeing her and a
Speaker 6: lot of other people at the fortieth. I really thought
Speaker 6: that she would, you know, come come and join us.
Speaker 6: So this is really quite a shock and a horrific thing.
Speaker 7: And I know she was recently a grandma and everything,
Speaker 7: so it's just so heartbreaking, right.
Speaker 6: I just want to thank you guys for you know,
Speaker 6: doing this for her. And you know, we've lost a
Speaker 6: lot of classmates. We've lost what fifteen something classmates and
Speaker 6: we're only in our fifties. So I would encourage all
Speaker 6: our classmates if you can at all come to our
Speaker 6: fortieth really, because it could be you know, you're our
Speaker 6: last chance. You don't know, oh when you know it's
Speaker 6: your last time to see somebody, you know, that's it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Audie for saying that and for
Speaker 1: sharing your bright light.
Speaker 2: And I'll be speaking with you soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you for working with me and being my uh
Speaker 1: running buddy for this uh this reunion that you and
Speaker 1: I are basically on that reach out to people detail
Speaker 1: and and it's always an honor.
Speaker 2: To speak with you.
Speaker 6: Likewise, I'll be in touch, Oh, all right.
Speaker 2: Worse.
Speaker 8: Honestly, I have to agree with everything Audrey said. It's
Speaker 8: it's sad. It's it's very sad, and I feel for family.
Speaker 9: It's it's a shock. It's a shock, and it's it's
Speaker 9: just senseless. It's something that should not have happened. It's
Speaker 9: I don't know, it's just sad. It's just really sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I'd love to get in, uh, be one
Speaker 1: of those detectives that gets to get in a room
Speaker 1: alone with Carlos and.
Speaker 2: See what he's actually got.
Speaker 1: That could turn out very poorly for me, but but
Speaker 1: I'd love to see what he's got. And and with
Speaker 1: that my most important thing to me right now. The
Speaker 1: only thing I'm thinking about today really is how can
Speaker 1: we honor to How do we get a hold of
Speaker 1: the mom or the dad and hopefully I can and
Speaker 1: and find out where we can have services, and God willing,
Speaker 1: it'll be in New York, because I don't I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I say that I don't want to fucking go to
Speaker 1: Florida to honor Tony.
Speaker 2: I want to go to New York.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, again not knowing, but I would imagine,
Speaker 3: I mean, her daughter, son, they're all up there, right, it.
Speaker 2: Makes sense to do it somewhere in the Tri state area.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Thank you Julie for saying that everybody here, all of
Speaker 1: you have such sweet words. Boo can everybody the cat
Speaker 1: lady or Maud. I didn't get too as much of
Speaker 1: you guys, but there was a lot of trying to
Speaker 1: burn up a lot of energy trying to remember.
Speaker 2: Be a last Would you like to say anything before
Speaker 2: we close this thing out?
Speaker 5: No, I mean I think your fortieth this year coming
Speaker 5: up is going to definitely have a new meaning. Hopefully
Speaker 5: you find a way to honor her there as well,
Speaker 5: because obviously you know she would have potentially been attending
Speaker 5: as well. So yeah, so I just you know, I
Speaker 5: admire how close you all are, and you know, you
Speaker 5: guys are family. It's it's a parent and you know,
Speaker 5: you guys are the family that you picked, right, not
Speaker 5: the ones that were chosen for you, the ones that
Speaker 5: you guys picked and just continue being there for each other.
Speaker 5: There's gonna this. You know, grief has a lot of
Speaker 5: you know this five stages of grief, and you guys
Speaker 5: are just all in shock and you know it's it's sad, and.
Speaker 4: You know, I just send you all my love and sympathy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, bea urse, Thank you so much love.
Speaker 1: I'll be uh in touch with you over the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. Let's endeavor to find out where the services.
Speaker 2: Are going to be.
Speaker 1: I realized that there is a forensic component to this
Speaker 1: that is required in order for them to establish the
Speaker 1: guilt of this man, Carlos Caban, So it won't be
Speaker 1: this open and shut. Okay, she's already you know, at
Speaker 1: the funeral home and so forth, because they're going to
Speaker 1: need to make sure that they can pin this murder
Speaker 1: on the guy, which is a different thing than what
Speaker 1: we're accustomed to.
Speaker 2: Our friends have.
Speaker 1: Died of of more natural causes, if you will. We've
Speaker 1: had a few where that weren't natural causes, but not
Speaker 1: somebody who's been murdered. So so yeah, it may be
Speaker 1: a few days, I.
Speaker 3: Would I would think yeah with.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, definitely, Thank you, Bia, and thank you every
Speaker 1: all you you know cabbies that are in the chat here,
Speaker 1: and we'll be seeing you Friday night, excuse me, sadday night.
Speaker 1: We're going to see you for Nan Gallagher and Kate Casey.
Speaker 1: Kate Casey, the host of Reality Life with Kate Casey. Hi, Lisa,
Speaker 1: and this should be a pretty amazing episode because Kate
Speaker 1: Casey is a very very high level interviewer and our
Speaker 1: goal is to let her interview Attorney Nan Gallagher about
Speaker 1: this case that we're covering about the the murder of
Speaker 1: Officer John O'Keefe. That's what this show has been covering
Speaker 1: for the most part. I probably haven't talked to you
Speaker 1: about it ors very much, but I can send you
Speaker 1: some details on the case.
Speaker 2: So so yes.
Speaker 1: This Saturday is going to be a great show, and
Speaker 1: by then I'll be feeling a little more able to
Speaker 1: do a show like this while we hope for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go and honor Tony Burrello. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put her up here one more time. March seven, eventeenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven to March. I want to say it
Speaker 1: was maybe the twentieth, March twentieth of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It could could have even been more. It could have
Speaker 1: been the twenty third.
Speaker 3: I think it seems like it could have been because
Speaker 3: they found er Monday morning, so Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Sunday would have been Sunday would have been
Speaker 1: the twenty third, twenty third. So yeah, so March seventeenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven to March twenty third, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: we will honor you, Tony, and we will love you forever,
Speaker 1: and we will be your family forever. I know that
Speaker 1: physically your body as your body is now being examined
Speaker 1: and being analyzed, but your spirit left with this happened,
Speaker 1: and your spirit is still here, and it may have
Speaker 1: already inhabited another person, another body. There may be a
Speaker 1: child in which that was born that now has your spirit.
Speaker 2: But I know that you're still here. So love you, Tony, Love.
Speaker 1: You, ors bye.
Speaker 3: To meet you or again.
Speaker 4: Sorry for your loss.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you for you guys in the chat Lisa, you
Speaker 1: know mods bands, Thank you for coming and just hanging
Speaker 1: out and listening to me grieve.
Speaker 2: It's not something that you had to do. It's not fun.
Speaker 2: It's not talking about Karen Reid and the other interesting
Speaker 2: things we talk about.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of high school friends and my co
Speaker 1: host musing about it. And it really means a lot
Speaker 1: to me that you came and hung out. So thank you,
Speaker 1: Love you, everybody
Speaker 2: Love you, okay, well we