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PORTIONS OF TAPED INTERVIEW OF ROBERT SULLIVAN (RS) BY DETECTIVE MARK MORASKI (MM) AND OFFICER DAVID TALMADGE (DT) – 4:30 PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 – SIGNATURES AND ATTESTATION WAIVED FOR REPRODRUCTION
RS: So, Dave, You remember those guys? Where did they come from? Avon? No. Farmington?
DT: I think Farmington. That was one hell of a night.
RS: You remember that guy, Smitty? Motherfucker must have been 6’10”. What a fuckin’ mad man. Remember what he was drinking? All the time what was he drinking?
DT. Came in a jug …
RS: Colt 45?
MM: They still brew that stuff?
RS: I don’t know. Maybe they got their own micro-brewery.
MM: Doubt that.
RS: Nothing micro about Colt 45.
DT: Yeah.
MM: So, Bobby, you know why you’re here.
RS: I think I do.
MM: We’re just trying to wrap up a few loose ends.
RS: [overlapping] Whatever I can do ….
MM: With regard to Mrs. O’Neal’s death.
RS: OK.
MM: If you don’t mind I’d like to tape the interview. Lot cheaper than having a court reporter.
RS: Is this thing running?
MM: It is.
RS: No problem, though maybe I should apologize to Smitty. [distorted – too close to mike] Meant nothing by it, big guy.
[laughter]
MM: So, Bob, just what is your position with the mortuary.
RS: Well, I guess I’m the boss.
MM: You’re a mortician.
RS: I am.
MM: But there are other morticians on staff?
RS: Yeah, sure, there’s Larry and Greg.
MM: Full names?
RS: Oh, uh, Larry Trembly and Greg Rashford. Larry’s about 30. He’s from New Haven. Been there about four years, and Greg’s a young guy, Troy, New York. Little German kid in his twenties. Shaved head. All spic-n-span. Davie, you’d get a kick out of this kid. Just came on board last year.
MM: So your duties at the place are more administrative than actually doing the , uh …
RS: Right. I haven’t done the day-to-day embalming for sometime now, though every now and then they’ll call me in on a face reconstruction. Larry’s very good with the artistic stuff, but if it’s a really bad car accident, burn victim, whatever, they’ll call me in and I’ll do that or help Larry with it.
MM: Are you a partner in the business, I mean in the legal sense of the word – or maybe I should ask, do you know how the place is organized. Is it a corporation, a partnership?
RS: It’s a corporation. Tommy O’Neal set it up years ago. He and Mrs. O’Neal were the only shareholders and they made me an officer, and after Tommy passed I became a director.
MM: You’re an officer?
RS: Yeah. Vice-president.
MM: And a member of the Board of Directors?
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