Friday, October 17, 2014

More on Ofc. Mark Marowski and the Argument at the Holy Cross Athletic Club

The last post (September 14, 2014) questioned why the New York State Police had not investigated Salamanca police officer Mark Marowski in my brother’s death, in light of information in a recent anonymous letter about an affair between Marowski and my brother’s wife Susan (see post of August 11, 2014).  Previous posts (September 22, 2010, July 28, 2011, and April 18, 2013) had raised the issue of the personal argument between my brother and Ofc. Marowski that led to Marowski calling in to the Salamanca police to arrest Mark for DWI.  This post brings up more disturbing information about Ofc. Marowski that reinforces the possibility that he was involved in Mark’s death.

It is a matter of concern that no one has admitted to being present during that altercation between my brother and Marowski.  Therefore, no one has stated definitively what the two said in their argument and how Marowski reacted when he came back into the club after going outside to phone the Salamanca police.  Individuals who had heard about the quarrel informed me that the two had argued over Mark’s claim that his son Brian should have been treated more leniently when he was arrested for DWI after a friend’s funeral and over Marowski’s annoyance that Mark had won a pool at the club.  I was also informed that as Marowski came back into the club after calling in on Mark, he reportedly said to someone on his cell phone, “It’s all taken care of,” and that he finished his drink and left.

Recently, however, I received specific--and very troubling--information from a person who was at the Holy Cross Club about Marowski’s reaction to my brother’s arrest for DWI.  That individual, who described Marowski as “nasty,” revealed that he was “proud” that he had caused Mark’s arrest for DWI and boasted over it.  Mark’s truck went up in flames the very next day after that argument, and I have been informed that updates on my brother’s condition in the burn unit were called in to the club at intervals the following day.  Marowski as well as everyone else at the Holy Cross Club knew how seriously Mark had been burned.  What kind of person gloats over causing a DWI arrest when the man ends up suffering third-degree burns over almost his entire body one day after the incident?

It is clear that Marowski had very negative feelings toward my brother.  I was informed that they had argued on many occasions at the Holy Cross Club.  It was made clear to me recently that they had previously argued over the pool tabs sold at the club.  In addition, it was made clear that Marowski was a very heavy gambler and that he got angry when he lost.  I was also informed that after Marowski defrauded the Holy Cross Club of $2,000 (see previous post), he was confronted with the issue of the lighters that he was supposed to have purchased for club members and admitted that he had gambled with the money they had paid and lost it.

Given the other problematic issues about Marowski’s behavior as mentioned in the previous post, it is all the more troubling that he was not viewed as a potential suspect by the State Police in the investigation into Mark’s death.  I trust that he will be.

I want to end this post by mentioning something that I observed on a recent trip to the Salamanca area.  While at Calvary Cemetery to check on family graves, I was stunned to see that all the stems on the geraniums I had planted at my brother’s headstone (see photo in the post of May 26, 2014, for a partial view of those newly planted flowers) had been slashed straight across with some type of blade so that there were no more blossoms on them nor could any more develop.  I looked at the neighboring graves as well as those of my other relatives and saw that they had suffered no such damage.  Clearly, Mark’s grave had been targeted.  I removed the mutilated stems and replaced one of the geranium plants so that at least for a brief time in the remainder of the season there would be a little beauty at my brother’s grave.  It is the mark of a vicious and disturbed person to vandalize a grave site.  I wonder who could have done that.