Bronx: Officer Involved in Suspected Murder-Suicide
New York Times
By Stephen Heyman
July 24, 2007
A 40-year-old off-duty police officer and his 18-year-old companion were found shot to death in the officer's Bronx apartment yesterday afternoon in what is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide, the police said. The woman's body was found in the officer's bed with gunshot wounds to the head and torso. The officer, Fred Maselli, was found shot in the head on the floor of the apartment... A gun was found near his body... Officer Maselli was a seven-year veteran of the force who worked at the 34th Precinct, the police said. Eddie Fishbaum, a neighbor, said that Officer Maselli was the father of two. The woman was identified by family members as Shirley Fontanez of Washington Heights, the mother of a 3-year-old girl. Ms. Fontanez's mother, Maria Espinoza, 40, said that the couple had been dating for more than two years. Friends said Ms. Fontanez often complained that Mr. Maselli was threatening and abusive. "I was like,'Why are you still with this guy?'" said Monica Pinedu, a friend. She said that Ms. Fontanez responded, "Because he will kill me."
SCAM TWIST IN 'SUICIDE & SLAY'
COP, GAL PAL EYED FOR CHECK SCHEME
New York Post, NY
By Lorena Mongell and Leonard Greene
July 25, 2007
A city cop who gunned down his teenage girlfriend in a murder-suicide may have been involved in an illegal check-cashing scheme and was in danger of being exposed, sources said. Freder Maselli, 40, who was assigned to the 34th Precinct, allegedly supplied stolen checks to his girlfriend, Shirley Fontanez, 19, who cashed them... According to a friend, Fontanez was planning to confront Maselli over the check scheme and demand that he return a Rolex watch she bought him with the illegal proceeds... Maselli had threatened Fontanez, said her mother, Maria Espinoza. "He used to text-message her, 'I'm going to kill you,' " Espinoza said. "He threatened to kill her and her daughter if she left them." Both Espinoza and Pineda said Fontanez came home with choke marks on her neck four months ago. Fontanez, who lived with her mom and her 3-year-old daughter in the Washington Heights neighborhood where Maselli worked, had been trying to break up with the cop for about three weeks, Espinoza said... "He kept telling her he was going to kill himself, but he wasn't going to go alone, that he was going to take someone with him," Espinoza said...
Excerpt From the blog
Columbian Cokane
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
...The pair have been dating for two years, meaning they have been together since Fontanez was 16 years old, a year below the legal age of consent in New York State... According to Fontanez's mother, 40 year-old Maria Espinoza, Fontanez would go to the precinct with Maselli and everyone there knew about the illicit relationship. What is more mind-boggling is that Fontanez, again according to her mother, dated another cop from the same precinct before even meeting Maselli...
Suicide cop eyed in '04 slaying plot
Note tells of plan to kill self & ex, or her lover
New York Daily News, NY - Jul 26, 2007
BY Nick Reisman and Tina Moore
July 26th 2007, 4:00 AM
He may have killed before. Cops are investigating whether the NYPD officer who fatally shot his teen lover before killing himself murdered the boyfriend of a past lover, police sources said yesterday. Detectives launched the probe after cops searching Fred Maselli's Bronx apartment following Sunday's murder-suicide found an old suicide note among his personal papers, a police source said... Shirley Fontanez's mother, Maria Espinoza, said Maselli, who worked out of Manhattan's 34th Precinct stationhouse, threatened her daughter before her death. Espinoza was shocked when a reporter told her about the 2004 suicide note. "Oh my God," Espinoza said in Spanish. "How is that possible? How could the 34th Precinct not know about him?"... She said her daughter met him when she was 16 and sold sunglasses from a cart in Washington Heights. Espinoza said other cops knew about the illicit relationship but did nothing to stop it. "All of the cops knew that she was underage," Espinoza said... Fontanez's relative Kenia Granodeoro, 39, said Maselli would handcuff the teen during sex and aim a gun at her. Fontanez told her he would then do "psycho stuff" to her...
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To anonymous, try again without the negativity about the two women you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteUnable to properly read the last article, as the photo blocks part of it.
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with your browser or phone because I can see it on my Android and on my laptop. If you hold down the Ctrl key + A - it will select all the text. Then while the text is highlighted, hold down the Ctrl key +C - to copy the text. Now you can use Ctrl + v to paste it into any format, like in a note, in an email, etc.
DeleteIf you still have trouble you can email me at behindthebluewall@gmail.com and I will send you the text.
DeleteSo glad Maselli is dead
ReplyDeleteCowardly creep will Rot in Hell
Insecure bastard
HORRIBLE man, serving and protecting NO ONE. Murderer. Totally unhinged psychotically ILL and the NYPD did NOTHING!! UTTERLY DISGUSTING!!! I HOPE THIS FAMILY OF THE SLAIN GIRL GETS THEIR JUSTICE SERVED AND NYPD IS HUMILIATED!1 WORST KIND OF POLICE DEPARTMENT ANYONE WHO IS A MOTHER COULD EVER IMAGINE!!
ReplyDelete* I just watched this on ID. I am so happy that Shirley's Family recieved money from the corrupt NYPD. God Bless the whole Family....
ReplyDeleteJust saw this on ID and funny but when I google the cop I find a million pics of the victim and none of the crooked murdering cop. No wonder the bad cops get away with it when even the media covers up for them and their dirty deeds.
ReplyDeleteIt's somebody's dead I'm not worried about getting their picture out. I don't want to ruin the beauty of her picture with his face here. I post pictures of the officers if they are still out there AND I don't think it will get their unprotected victim killed.
DeleteIf you need his picture email me.
DeleteI was thinking the same thing,i tried 2 google Fred Masselli picture, Shirley Fortanez picture kept popping up
DeleteI would like to see his picture living in the area around this time taibizzy@aol.com
ReplyDeleteMy email address is below. If you email me I can send you a picture. I am curious why, but you don't need to tell me.
DeleteHow do you find this on the ID channel? I knew Fred and want to see the show.
ReplyDeleteGo on YouTube and type in FORBIDDEN Dying for love Shirley Fontanez and it will come up.
DeleteI saw it on ID and now looking for it again. Does any one remember the name of the show?
ReplyDeleteFatal vows ,Broken Trust.
DeleteThat’s on utube! You’ve probably found it by now but I just watched it now and in Australia we are a bit behind 😊
Forbidden: Dying for Love
DeleteI wanna see what he looks like to. I can't find a pic anywhere. Weird huh? People still trying to cover for him. I'm not saying this page is but the NYPD is doing a great job of covering their own.
ReplyDeleteI could have sworn I had a picture of him but I can't find it. Maybe I saw it on a video. I have saved some videos and I can check and see if I have a video on this case. Out of thousands of blog posts I've never had people so urgent about seeing the killer. Is there something going on? A lot of times I don't even put the killer's face on the blog because I don't think anybody should have to look at them or that the victim sshouldn't have to share the page with their mug.
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