It’s been 32 years since Susan Taraskiewicz’s physique, overwhelmed and stabbed, was discovered within the trunk of her small blue Toyota exterior an auto restore store in Revere. However the time has not light her mom’s ardour for locating the killer.
“I don’t let anyone forget about Susan,” Marlene Taraskiewicz, who for years stood exterior Logan Worldwide Airport with an indication asking for info on her daughter’s dying, advised the Herald. “I always say it’s the girl on the billboard who was murdered from Northwest Airlines, and it’s amazing how many people remember.
“I just wish and pray every day with the strength that God gives me,” she added, “that someone will come forward and tell us something that will solve Susan’s murder.”
Marlene Taraskiewicz was 50 when her 27-year-old daughter was murdered beneath mysterious circumstances. Within the intervening years, she has misplaced most of her household, with solely her eldest youngster, a daughter named Debra, surviving. She misplaced her son Ronnie 17 years in the past and her husband 14 years in the past.
Marlene Taraskiewicz and others paying shut consideration to the thriller say that it’s clear why Susan Taraskiewicz was killed: she knew an excessive amount of about an organized crime-backed bank card fraud racket going down at Boston’s Logan Worldwide Airport, the place she labored as a ramp crew chief for the now-defunct Northwest Airways.
Taraskiewicz was working an in a single day shift on Saturday evening, Sept. 12, 1992, when she acquired a mysterious cellphone name. After that decision, she left work and advised her co-workers she was going to choose up sandwiches for them at Beachmont Roast Beef in Revere.
However she by no means returned from the fast errand.
She wasn’t seen once more till investigators found her stays within the trunk of her Tercel exterior that auto physique store on Route 1A. A supply shut with the investigation advised the Herald that the automotive was already there when staff arrived for his or her shift that Monday morning.
“The fact that none of her co-workers reported her missing is potentially significant. Were they trying to cover for her, or were they afraid of those who were antagonizing and harassing Susan, or were some of them aware of what was about to happen to her?” the supply advised the Herald.
Investigation
“I am never going to give up,” Marlene Taraskiewicz mentioned. “I know this murder can be solved and it should have been solved in the first 12 years.”
Headway on the case was comparatively non-existent for years, Marlene Taraskiewicz mentioned, plunging relations themselves into the fray to attempt to discover any scraps that would result in a solution, like being the primary go to the restaurant and ensure Susan had by no means arrived.
The police didn’t monitor the cellphone name. Marlene Tarasckiewicz mentioned they advised her on the time that it couldn’t be accomplished. However when a brand new Massachusetts State Police investigative staff led by Detective Lieutenants Joseph Flaherty and Bob Murphy took over the case 12 years later, the very first thing they tried to do was monitor that decision. Murphy mentioned that decision may have simply been traced, Marlene Tarasckiewicz mentioned, however that within the years because the homicide these information had been erased.
Northwest Airways tried to assist by placing up a $250,000 reward for info that would result in a conviction for Susan Taraskiewicz’s homicide. When that airline was absorbed by Delta Airways in 2010, Delta determined to maintain the supply going.
The Herald couldn’t independently verify the Delta Airways reward standing by deadline.
Marlene Tarasckiewicz mentioned that she’s additionally happy with the work being accomplished by the brand new lead, MSP Det. Lt. Timothy O’Connor.
Conspiracy
Fellow Northwest staff Joseph Nuzzo and Edward Flaherty can be indicted in federal courtroom in Boston in January 1995 on prices of stealing bank cards from United States mail entrusted to the airline and operating a fraud racket with them from April 1991 by way of July 1992.
“The agreement was that they would steal credit cards from the mails coming in on Northwest Airlines together and then they would either go their separate ways with the cards,” federal prosecutor David Apfel mentioned when Flaherty pleaded responsible on March 30, 1995. “Mr. Flaherty used his cards personally primarily to support what was then a cocaine habit as well as to support a gambling habit.”
Marlene Tarasckiewicz mentioned that the bags handlers concerned within the racket most likely know what occurred to her daughter, and why. She extolls all of them and anybody else who may need info to lastly share it.
“So please, clear your conscience,” she extolled anybody with any info “It’s been 32 years. How can you live with yourself? Please, help my family get closure.”
Legislation enforcement continues to be issuing requires any info on the case. The MSP asks anybody with any info to name the company’s Suffolk County detective unit at (617) 727-8817.
“In every unsolved case, just one person with accurate information can make all the difference for survivors, for the communities, and for investigators handling the case,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned. “No matter how much time has passed since Susan Taraskiewicz tragic death, we retain hope and we pray that there’s someone who can come forward with information that can help solve the case. We urge them to contact us or the Mass State Police.”
Matt Stone/Boston Herald
A aircraft takes off at Logan Airport in Boston, the place Susan Taraskiewicz labored when she was murdered in 1992. (Workers Picture By Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
