FOFOLINA
05-15-2002, 05:12 PM
May 15, 2002 -- The outrageous "Opie & Anthony" radio show turned into a deadly serious version of "America's Most Wanted" yesterday - when a live caller told stunned listeners he'd once killed two men in a drug-deal-gone-bad.
Some of the biggest fans of the popular WNEW show include cops, who later flooded the station with incredulous calls.
The NYPD's cold-case squad is taking the call seriously enough that its investigators are heading to the station's Midtown offices today to listen to a transcript of the show.
"He's either very delusional or he's telling the truth, and he didn't sound like the kind of guy to make this up," co-host Anthony Cumia said.
"We're not making this up, and it's not a bit . . . When he said, 'murder,' my head spun around."
The man - who identified himself on air as a 44-year-old retired trucker named "Eddie" from Ridgewood, Queens - said he was calling to offer one of the show's characters, a homeless woman known as "Stalker Patty," a place to stay.
When Opie and Anthony asked why, the man said it was to make up for a past mistake.
Pressed on what he'd done, the man said he had killed two drug thugs in 1977 after going with a pal to a warehouse on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, as backup on a deal.
The man described how he blew the pair away with a long-range rifle when one of them pulled a gun.
He said he and his friend took the bodies to a marsh, poured gasoline on them and burned them. They tossed some of the remains into garbage trucks in the meat-packing district, he said.
"With all the crap in my life, maybe this [offering 'Patty' shelter] will give me a gold star to get me to heaven," he said.
The man said he had confessed his crime to a shrink, who urged him to talk about it.
"I'm not worried about confessing because they'll never find the body parts," he said.
But when a cop called and asked to meet with him, he hurriedly said he had to get off the line.
"I'm sweating like hell right now," he mumbled before hastily hanging up.
HOAX-LEERY COPS PROBE RADIO CALL-IN SLAY CONFESS (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48017.htm)
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Some of the biggest fans of the popular WNEW show include cops, who later flooded the station with incredulous calls.
The NYPD's cold-case squad is taking the call seriously enough that its investigators are heading to the station's Midtown offices today to listen to a transcript of the show.
"He's either very delusional or he's telling the truth, and he didn't sound like the kind of guy to make this up," co-host Anthony Cumia said.
"We're not making this up, and it's not a bit . . . When he said, 'murder,' my head spun around."
The man - who identified himself on air as a 44-year-old retired trucker named "Eddie" from Ridgewood, Queens - said he was calling to offer one of the show's characters, a homeless woman known as "Stalker Patty," a place to stay.
When Opie and Anthony asked why, the man said it was to make up for a past mistake.
Pressed on what he'd done, the man said he had killed two drug thugs in 1977 after going with a pal to a warehouse on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, as backup on a deal.
The man described how he blew the pair away with a long-range rifle when one of them pulled a gun.
He said he and his friend took the bodies to a marsh, poured gasoline on them and burned them. They tossed some of the remains into garbage trucks in the meat-packing district, he said.
"With all the crap in my life, maybe this [offering 'Patty' shelter] will give me a gold star to get me to heaven," he said.
The man said he had confessed his crime to a shrink, who urged him to talk about it.
"I'm not worried about confessing because they'll never find the body parts," he said.
But when a cop called and asked to meet with him, he hurriedly said he had to get off the line.
"I'm sweating like hell right now," he mumbled before hastily hanging up.
HOAX-LEERY COPS PROBE RADIO CALL-IN SLAY CONFESS (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48017.htm)
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