Post by CC Fan on Apr 19, 2004 23:10:35 GMT -5
PART 1
Recap provided by Naj
1964 murder of a student from a gay bar--Daniel Holtz. Mother dying and believes the police swept the killing under the rug. The mother, Mrs. Helen Holtz from Milwaukee, realizes she and her husband didn’t do the right thing to investigate his death because of her not acknowledging her son to be gay and it hurt their relationship. The police thought it was a robbery but told them her son had been at a gay bar. Mrs. Holtz is dying and wants this settled and talks with Lily about Daniel at the station. The case was left unresolved and she and her husband helped them to do just that because they didn’t push the investigation.
Some of the case information and questions:
In 1964 the case was concluded a random street murder.
Body found in alley behind a bar in what is referred to as ‘Queen Village‘ a bar that doesn’t exist in 2004. Residents in the area called it the lunch room at the corner of Sodom and Gomorrah. The only place for gays to socialize at that time.
Why was Danny in the alley? The file on the case is very small.
Cause of death--blunt force trauma with round wooden implement speculated to be his baseball bat/cop stick.
Danny had a girlfriend but not romantically. Her name was Deborah.
Danny was romantically involved with another guy in law school, Hank. Danny’s mother and father saw him at Danny’s upon visiting college that year.
Anonymous caller to police saw the body lying in alley.
Rush, Valens, Vera and Jeffries head to Queen Village. Jeffries says those that were gay in 1964 frequented this area because it was the only place around meet. They look at the alley and wonder why Danny would be in that alley. Was he chased? Did he get lucky there? Lily says the anonymous caller saw the body ‘splayed and protruding’ from the alley. There was a drag queen called “Tinkerbell” who knew those in the neighborhood that would beat up queers. There was never any follow up with Tinkerbell. Lily thinks Vera should look for Tinkerbell.
Cut to Jeffries and Vera at the district house getting information on area bullies at that time. They search for code violations. They find there is no code for hate crimes/gay bashings. Vera asks Jeffries if it would be something like ‘male on male assaults’. Jeffries says it might be something like ‘assaults, drunken disorderly’ or ‘disturbing the peace’ incidents. At that time there were no codes for hate crimes and the term ‘gay bashing’ didn’t exist.
Back at headquarters Stillman tells Rush that the “Hush Room” was managed by Anthony from 1961-1968 and so she plans to follow up on it. Mrs. Holtz comes in again and wants to know how Danny was killed. They tell her it was blunt force trauma such as a baseball bat. She talked about how much Danny loved baseball and that he was on the Penn team. Lily wanted to know about Helen’s prior mention of Danny’s fiancé. Helen said she was really a girlfriend. Lily wanted to know if Danny had any other friends or romantic interests looking back now. There is a flashback to Mr. and Mrs. Holtz visiting Danny at college and they see a male friend with Danny. She realizes that she doesn’t know the guy’s name but Deborah might. And if Lily finds out who the boy is to let him know she is around and would like to see him.
Cut to Rush and Valens talking with the bar owner, Anthony, of the “Hush Room”. Anthony takes them to a private area to discuss because he doesn’t want his co-workers to know he worked in a gay bar. He used to talk to Danny who was a baseball nut and played shortstop for the Penn baseball team. He didn’t know Tinkerbell because he thought of all of them as ‘Tinkerbells’. He knew about the night Danny died because of the police raid that happened. He usually had a heads up for the raids but not that evening. He said the police were always raiding them so they paid them off to tip them off each time they would have a raid. But that night there was no tip off to give them time to put the red light out for the couples to switch to guy/girl couples. Anthony said they did hurt people at those raids.
Flashback to the police raid in 1964 at the “Hush Room”. When everyone hears them coming the male’s switch partners and pair up with the other women while Daniel sits at the bar.
Back at headquarters Stillman talks to Rush and Valens that there is nothing on the books about a police raid that night. The police department was on the up and up back then in this area regarding the “Hush Room“. Roseau’s Raiders--it was an elite squad of Captain Roseau’s. They took care of payoffs, raids and most likely gay bashing too. The cops on the raid was off the records. They realized there were two secret worlds to break into for this case: gays and the history of the police department. Scotty wonders how to determine if Danny was beaten with a baseball bat or a cop’s night stick?
Vera and Jeffries seek out finding Tinkerbell. They learn about Tinkerbell, a drag queen, who is known to be beat up as a gay in drag was never sought as a witness. Information was obtained that she/he was beaten up a lot. He had her nipple sliced off and had surgery at the Veteran’s hospital. The two detectives put this on their list to follow-up at the VA Hospital for more information
Lily and Scotty talk to Debbie, (now an OBGYN) Danny’s girlfriend, who’s now in her 60’s. Debbie tells Lily that she found out about Danny and Hank by catching them kissing. She loved Danny. Danny said he loved her but not as much as he loved Hank. She and Danny then became friends. She felt Danny was being blackmailed. But why? He didn’t have any money. Lily asks Debbie if she knew Hank? She did know Hank Phillips. She felt Danny wasn’t cruel. But the world was.
Lily has someone in department. run a test on the use of the weapon in the killing of Danny.
Lily visits Hank (Honorable Henry Phillips) who still lives in Philly. He was reluctant to give information because of his status. Lily told him they were re-looking into Danny Holtz’s death because they thought it was a possible hate crime/gay bashing according to Danny’s mother. Upon hearing this Hank said he didn’t remember Danny well enough to help her. Lily gives him her card telling him “in case something jogs his memory”. He then told Lily that he doesn’t talk publicly about ‘these things’ And that he wanted to help her but needed assurances. Lily promised it would be kept between the two of them and she would take no notes. He agreed. She wanted to know if he was being blackmailed. Hank said not so. Hank was being blackmailed by management at the “Hush Room“. He went with Danny there twice. They were running an extortion scheme there and a young law student was a good target. Hank said he couldn’t be a lawyer if he was gay back in those days. Rush wanted to know why Danny was trying to get money if Hank was the one being targeted? Hank said because Danny felt responsible for the problem. Hank felt he was responsible because Danny was out with his sexuality and Hank wasn’t. Hank didn’t kill Danny to preserve his career. Hank told Lily that Danny’s team mates on the baseball team really hated him.
Flashback to one of Danny’s team mates finding his matches from the “Hush Room” and asked Danny if he went there. Danny acknowledged that he did. His team mate called him a ‘#$%%$‘. Hank over heard the conversation. When the team found out they made it hard for him like making him an outcast. Danny ended up quitting. In those days there was no such thing as a gay athlete. Lily promised to keep the information confidential but said she’d like to have Danny’s mother talk to him.
Lily and Scotty then went to Anthony and asked him about the extortion scam being run around the “Hush Room“. Anthony told them it was about his cousin using a hidden camera who tried to hit on a couple of guys there thinking if it got out they were gay--they’d have a problem with others knowing. But Anthony’s uncle found out about it and stopped it because it would be bad for business. So his cousin wouldn’t have hurt Danny. He couldn’t do something like killing someone. Lily wanted to know about the raid that night and Anthony said he couldn’t see any names because they had taped over their name tags. Lily told him that they knew he usually got warning. Anthony says they had a bag man who picked up the envelopes. He was a rookie ‘Nelson‘. They had to give contributions to the “Police Athletic Foundation“. Lily wanted to know if officer Nelson was at the bar the night Danny got killed. Anthony stated that he was always there.
Vera and Jeffries called the VA Hospital trying to find out more about Tinkerbell. They also found out that the entire Penn baseball team was at an away game in Ithaca, NY the weekend of Danny’s murder. Rush also got the results of how Danny was killed and it wasn’t a cop's night stick but felt it was a baseball bat as the weapon.
Lily found out Tinkerbell was George Polk and dropped him a visit. (I'm not sure if he tried to give police at the time of the killing a statement and no one took it or he was waiting for them to contact him about it.) So Tinkerbell accompanied Lily and Scotty down to headquarters. He told them how he was beaten up by every cop in South Philly when there was ### bashing. They beat him up out of hatred and career advancement. Lily showed George some mug shots out of the early 60’s for arrests made in that district. Scotty asked George why he flaunted himself that way if he knew he’d get beat up for it. George wanted to know why he was a homicide detective by asking such a question. Lily told George her partner was new. George pointed out how one dresses and who he loves…..the reason was he wasn’t a practical girl to stop dressing that way. George then identified a local ring leader who used to beat him up, ‘O’Brien’, who lived by the “Hush Room“.
Recap provided by Naj
1964 murder of a student from a gay bar--Daniel Holtz. Mother dying and believes the police swept the killing under the rug. The mother, Mrs. Helen Holtz from Milwaukee, realizes she and her husband didn’t do the right thing to investigate his death because of her not acknowledging her son to be gay and it hurt their relationship. The police thought it was a robbery but told them her son had been at a gay bar. Mrs. Holtz is dying and wants this settled and talks with Lily about Daniel at the station. The case was left unresolved and she and her husband helped them to do just that because they didn’t push the investigation.
Some of the case information and questions:
In 1964 the case was concluded a random street murder.
Body found in alley behind a bar in what is referred to as ‘Queen Village‘ a bar that doesn’t exist in 2004. Residents in the area called it the lunch room at the corner of Sodom and Gomorrah. The only place for gays to socialize at that time.
Why was Danny in the alley? The file on the case is very small.
Cause of death--blunt force trauma with round wooden implement speculated to be his baseball bat/cop stick.
Danny had a girlfriend but not romantically. Her name was Deborah.
Danny was romantically involved with another guy in law school, Hank. Danny’s mother and father saw him at Danny’s upon visiting college that year.
Anonymous caller to police saw the body lying in alley.
Rush, Valens, Vera and Jeffries head to Queen Village. Jeffries says those that were gay in 1964 frequented this area because it was the only place around meet. They look at the alley and wonder why Danny would be in that alley. Was he chased? Did he get lucky there? Lily says the anonymous caller saw the body ‘splayed and protruding’ from the alley. There was a drag queen called “Tinkerbell” who knew those in the neighborhood that would beat up queers. There was never any follow up with Tinkerbell. Lily thinks Vera should look for Tinkerbell.
Cut to Jeffries and Vera at the district house getting information on area bullies at that time. They search for code violations. They find there is no code for hate crimes/gay bashings. Vera asks Jeffries if it would be something like ‘male on male assaults’. Jeffries says it might be something like ‘assaults, drunken disorderly’ or ‘disturbing the peace’ incidents. At that time there were no codes for hate crimes and the term ‘gay bashing’ didn’t exist.
Back at headquarters Stillman tells Rush that the “Hush Room” was managed by Anthony from 1961-1968 and so she plans to follow up on it. Mrs. Holtz comes in again and wants to know how Danny was killed. They tell her it was blunt force trauma such as a baseball bat. She talked about how much Danny loved baseball and that he was on the Penn team. Lily wanted to know about Helen’s prior mention of Danny’s fiancé. Helen said she was really a girlfriend. Lily wanted to know if Danny had any other friends or romantic interests looking back now. There is a flashback to Mr. and Mrs. Holtz visiting Danny at college and they see a male friend with Danny. She realizes that she doesn’t know the guy’s name but Deborah might. And if Lily finds out who the boy is to let him know she is around and would like to see him.
Cut to Rush and Valens talking with the bar owner, Anthony, of the “Hush Room”. Anthony takes them to a private area to discuss because he doesn’t want his co-workers to know he worked in a gay bar. He used to talk to Danny who was a baseball nut and played shortstop for the Penn baseball team. He didn’t know Tinkerbell because he thought of all of them as ‘Tinkerbells’. He knew about the night Danny died because of the police raid that happened. He usually had a heads up for the raids but not that evening. He said the police were always raiding them so they paid them off to tip them off each time they would have a raid. But that night there was no tip off to give them time to put the red light out for the couples to switch to guy/girl couples. Anthony said they did hurt people at those raids.
Flashback to the police raid in 1964 at the “Hush Room”. When everyone hears them coming the male’s switch partners and pair up with the other women while Daniel sits at the bar.
Back at headquarters Stillman talks to Rush and Valens that there is nothing on the books about a police raid that night. The police department was on the up and up back then in this area regarding the “Hush Room“. Roseau’s Raiders--it was an elite squad of Captain Roseau’s. They took care of payoffs, raids and most likely gay bashing too. The cops on the raid was off the records. They realized there were two secret worlds to break into for this case: gays and the history of the police department. Scotty wonders how to determine if Danny was beaten with a baseball bat or a cop’s night stick?
Vera and Jeffries seek out finding Tinkerbell. They learn about Tinkerbell, a drag queen, who is known to be beat up as a gay in drag was never sought as a witness. Information was obtained that she/he was beaten up a lot. He had her nipple sliced off and had surgery at the Veteran’s hospital. The two detectives put this on their list to follow-up at the VA Hospital for more information
Lily and Scotty talk to Debbie, (now an OBGYN) Danny’s girlfriend, who’s now in her 60’s. Debbie tells Lily that she found out about Danny and Hank by catching them kissing. She loved Danny. Danny said he loved her but not as much as he loved Hank. She and Danny then became friends. She felt Danny was being blackmailed. But why? He didn’t have any money. Lily asks Debbie if she knew Hank? She did know Hank Phillips. She felt Danny wasn’t cruel. But the world was.
Lily has someone in department. run a test on the use of the weapon in the killing of Danny.
Lily visits Hank (Honorable Henry Phillips) who still lives in Philly. He was reluctant to give information because of his status. Lily told him they were re-looking into Danny Holtz’s death because they thought it was a possible hate crime/gay bashing according to Danny’s mother. Upon hearing this Hank said he didn’t remember Danny well enough to help her. Lily gives him her card telling him “in case something jogs his memory”. He then told Lily that he doesn’t talk publicly about ‘these things’ And that he wanted to help her but needed assurances. Lily promised it would be kept between the two of them and she would take no notes. He agreed. She wanted to know if he was being blackmailed. Hank said not so. Hank was being blackmailed by management at the “Hush Room“. He went with Danny there twice. They were running an extortion scheme there and a young law student was a good target. Hank said he couldn’t be a lawyer if he was gay back in those days. Rush wanted to know why Danny was trying to get money if Hank was the one being targeted? Hank said because Danny felt responsible for the problem. Hank felt he was responsible because Danny was out with his sexuality and Hank wasn’t. Hank didn’t kill Danny to preserve his career. Hank told Lily that Danny’s team mates on the baseball team really hated him.
Flashback to one of Danny’s team mates finding his matches from the “Hush Room” and asked Danny if he went there. Danny acknowledged that he did. His team mate called him a ‘#$%%$‘. Hank over heard the conversation. When the team found out they made it hard for him like making him an outcast. Danny ended up quitting. In those days there was no such thing as a gay athlete. Lily promised to keep the information confidential but said she’d like to have Danny’s mother talk to him.
Lily and Scotty then went to Anthony and asked him about the extortion scam being run around the “Hush Room“. Anthony told them it was about his cousin using a hidden camera who tried to hit on a couple of guys there thinking if it got out they were gay--they’d have a problem with others knowing. But Anthony’s uncle found out about it and stopped it because it would be bad for business. So his cousin wouldn’t have hurt Danny. He couldn’t do something like killing someone. Lily wanted to know about the raid that night and Anthony said he couldn’t see any names because they had taped over their name tags. Lily told him that they knew he usually got warning. Anthony says they had a bag man who picked up the envelopes. He was a rookie ‘Nelson‘. They had to give contributions to the “Police Athletic Foundation“. Lily wanted to know if officer Nelson was at the bar the night Danny got killed. Anthony stated that he was always there.
Vera and Jeffries called the VA Hospital trying to find out more about Tinkerbell. They also found out that the entire Penn baseball team was at an away game in Ithaca, NY the weekend of Danny’s murder. Rush also got the results of how Danny was killed and it wasn’t a cop's night stick but felt it was a baseball bat as the weapon.
Lily found out Tinkerbell was George Polk and dropped him a visit. (I'm not sure if he tried to give police at the time of the killing a statement and no one took it or he was waiting for them to contact him about it.) So Tinkerbell accompanied Lily and Scotty down to headquarters. He told them how he was beaten up by every cop in South Philly when there was ### bashing. They beat him up out of hatred and career advancement. Lily showed George some mug shots out of the early 60’s for arrests made in that district. Scotty asked George why he flaunted himself that way if he knew he’d get beat up for it. George wanted to know why he was a homicide detective by asking such a question. Lily told George her partner was new. George pointed out how one dresses and who he loves…..the reason was he wasn’t a practical girl to stop dressing that way. George then identified a local ring leader who used to beat him up, ‘O’Brien’, who lived by the “Hush Room“.
