More on the Alleged Phone Call Just before Mark’s Truck Fire

This post further discusses the problem of the alleged phone call between my brother’s wife Susan Pavlock and Peter Rapacioli from around 10:30 to 10:55 p.m. the night of the truck fire.  At the end of the call, Susan allegedly told Rapacioli that she had to hang up because she saw flames in the field across from the house and was going to call “911.”  As mentioned in previous posts (see May 15, June 26, and December 24, 2013), this alleged phone call raises numerous questions.  It is, then, a matter of considerable concern that the New York State Police investigators did not verify that call and refused to do so when they were asked to check the phone records in 2005.  The present post raises another problem related to Rapacioli’s statements about that call.

As stated in the previous post (March 3, 2014), I would have preferred to convey sensitive information only to the relevant authorities.  But since they have turned deaf ears to compelling evidence that my brother was murdered, I have no choice but to make public more of the information I have obtained about Mark’s death.  One such piece of information concerns Rapacioli’s claim that he could not reach Mark the day of the truck fire and therefore called his house late that night.
 
As recorded in the narrative of the police report for September 25, 2003, Rapacioli was on the phone with Susan but intended to speak with Mark about a charity football pool.  Rapacioli himself told me just weeks after my brother’s death that he had tried to reach Mark early in the day but was unsuccessful.  Yet when he telephoned me on June 5, 2013, he insisted that he had called my brother “numerous times” throughout the day but could not reach him.  In November 2004, however, my cousin Dennis Pavlock mentioned a very different statement by Rapacioli about speaking to Mark on the day of the truck fire.

Dennis mentioned the circumstances under which he happened to speak with Rapacioli: they met at the Holy Cross Athletic Club in May 2004 when Dennis went there with Gary Subulski during a visit to Salamanca.  According to Dennis, Rapacioli told him that he in fact had talked to Mark on the day of the truck fire.  Dennis added specific details from that conversation at the Holy Cross Club: Rapacioli mentioned that in their discussion about the football pool, Mark told him that they were losing and that he was going to do it over.

The discrepancies in Rapacioli’s statements in the only two conversations I have had with him (November 1, 2003, and June 5, 2013) are a matter of deep concern to me.  His statements to my cousin Dennis, as related above, are very troubling.  They raise further concerns about the quality of the investigation by the New York State Police, in particular about their refusal to check the telephone records related to that alleged call just before my brother’s truck burst into flames and he was found burning to death in the field across from his house.