False Evidence
Tim Burke and Andrew Palombo alleged evidence linked Leonard Paradiso to Joan Webster.
The "so-called" and unverified evidence was falsely represented by authorities to the media, the courts, and the FBI.
There was no verified evidence linking Paradiso to Joan.
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Tim Burke and Andrew Palombo falsely alleged Leonard Paradiso drove a white gypsy cab and picked Joan up at Logan Airport on November 28, 1981.
Please review the "Suppressed Lead" tab on this site.
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Robert Bond Letter Received After
January 14, 1983, Page 1
Tim Burke and Andrew Palombo claimed Burke received an unsolicited letter from Bond on January 5, 1983.
Burke and Palombo claimed, based on receiving the letter, Burke arranged an interview with the MSP.
The taped interview was conducted on January 14, 1983.
Bond's letter was mailed on January 10, 1983, the same day he met with Carmen Tammaro at the Suffolk County Courthouse.
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Palombo Search Warrant April 25, 1983,
Pages 1 & 2
Submitted for the Marie Iannuzzi Case
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Bond Interview with MSP
January 14, 1983, Page 27
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Maya: Monuments of Civilization
by Pierre Ivanoff
Maya Book Photo on Paradiso's Bookshelf
Photo from The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer by Tim Burke.
Book recovered from Leonard Paradiso's bookshelf during the search warrant executed at the Weyant home on April 25, 1983, under a Marie Iannuzzi case search warrant.
Andrew Palombo asserts this was Joan Webster's textbook.
Tim Burke asserts Paradiso wiped the pages clean of fingerprints.
Paradiso's volume was published by Grosset and Dunlap and out of print in 1975.
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Maya: Monuments of Civilization by Pierre Ivanoff
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Grosset & Dunlap Publisher Imprint
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Maya Description Received by Paradiso Attorney
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FBI Report of Maya Submission June 1, 1983
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FBI Report Negative Results August 31, 1983
Leonard Paradiso's print was identified on his book.
Five latent prints were also found on the book, but not identified as Joan Webster's.
The fingerprint analysis was submitted under the Joan Webster investigation.
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Facsimile of Jewelry Pouch
A jewelry pouch was seized in a safety deposit box jointly owned by Candace Weyant and Leonard Paradiso
The FBI conducted the search at the Haymarket Bank on July 28, 1983.
Authorities misrepresented the item as belonging to Joan Webster.
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FBI Report Safety Deposit Box Contents
October 21, 1983
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FBI Report October 18, 1983, Pages 2 & 3
Tim Burke claimed Joan's roommate identified the pouch from a black and white photo concealing the color and size of the pouch.
Joan lived in a single room at Perkins Hall; she did not have a roommate.
No witness was identified, and no reports verify Burke's assertion.
Candace Weyant informed authorities she lent the pouch to Paradiso to sheath a prized shark's tooth.
Weyant retained the other items in her jewelry set and the box they came in.
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Candace Weyant 3-Piece Set and Box
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Herald American Photo September 28, 1983
Please review the "Boat Theory" tab on this site.
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Facsimile of .357 Magnum
Tim Burke alleged a confidential source, later identified as John O'Connell, directed authorities to find a .357 magnum submerged at Pier 7 where the Malafemmena was submerged.
Assigned divers searched the waters at Pier 7 in October and November 1983 and did not recover anything connecting Joan Webster to Leonard Paradiso or the Malafemmena.
Burke took his own diver to Pier 7 and retrieved a realistic looking fake .357 magnum on October 20, 1983. Burke alleged the magnum belonged to Paradiso and was used to force Joan onto the boat.
John O'Connell was a developer renovating Pier 7 in 1980. He was under federal investigation by October 1981 for defrauding the government of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant funds, and his company records were subpoenaed by the FBI.
O'Connell was convicted and sentenced to a federal penitentiary for perjury.
Officer Nick Saggese described the conditions raising the Malafemmena, and discovery of the gun. He affirmed the Malafemmena had a broken rudder when it was recovered on September 27, 1983.
O'Connell was secretly videotaped by the FBI on November 24, 1981, in Jacksonville, FL. The video was used during O'Connell's trial. He was convicted of perjury.
Divers for O'Connell were not in the waters at Pier 7 in April of 1982 as Tim Burke alleged.
O'Connell's divers, when they were in the waters at Pier 7 in 1980, found a submerged Mercedes, not a gun.
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FBI Report October 18, 1983, Page 2
Items found and submitted from the boat and under the boat, after the Malafemmena was raised on September 27, 1983.
No glass shards or liquor bottles were found on the boat.
Items were recovered from underneath the boat where it had settled on the bottom.
No gun was recovered.
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Marie Iannuzzi Pretrial Hearing
March 7, 1984, Page 62
Tim Burke Direct Examination
Boston Police Officer and Diver Nick Saggese
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Marie Iannuzzi Pretrial Hearing
March 7, 1984, Pages 63 & 64
Steve Rappaport Cross Examination
Boston Police Officer and Diver Nick Saggese
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Marie Iannuzzi Pretrial Hearing
March 7, 1984, Page 65
Steve Rappaport Cross Examination
Boston Police Officer and Diver Nick Saggese
The Malafemmena was known not to be navigable when it was raised on September 27, 1983, discrediting the claim Paradiso took his boat out and dumped Joan Webster's body in Boston Harbor.
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Trooper by Dave Moran
Published 1987, Page 167
Dave Moran was a Trooper and part of the diving team that searched for the Malafemmena.
In his 1987 book Trooper, Moran affirmed assigned divers searched the waters at Pier 7 for two months after the Malafemmena was recovered on September 27, 1983.
No evidence was found supporting allegations against Leonard Paradiso.
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FBI O'Connell 302 Report, August 12, 1983
O'Connell divers found a Mercedes, not a gun, in the water at Pier 7.
The report is initialed by SA Broce who worked with Tim Burke and Andrew Palombo.
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Boston Globe May 22, 1983
"2 Boston Men on Trial in FLA.;
Conspiracy-to-Defraud Case Involves
$2.1M in Loans"
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Tim Burke Brief in Support of a Warrant
January 1985, Pages 2 & 3
Tim Burke and Andrew Palombo filed false documents with the courts.
Burke and Palombo falsely alleged several glass shards were recovered on the Malafemmena when it was raised on September 27, 1983.
Burke and Palombo alleged Paradiso hurt his hand when he hit Joan Webster with a whiskey bottle.
Leonard Paradiso was treated for three metal splinters in his left index finger on November 30, 1981.
Burke and Palombo sought the surgical removal of a presumed splinter still in Paradiso's finger.
The court ordered an X-ray that produced negative results for a remaining splinter.
The court authorized "use of force" if Paradiso did not comply.
Paradiso was treated for a broken finger six weeks after the X-ray in the Federal District Court of RI during the bankruptcy fraud case CR 85-010-S.
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Tim Burke Brief in Support of a Warrant
January 1985, Page 5
Note: The boat equipment recovered at the Weyant home under the Maria Iannuzzi search warrant was not the same equipment manufacturer for the Malafemmena equipment.
The equipment recovered at the Weyant home was manufactured by Danforth.
The equipment from the Malafemmena was manufactured by Ray Jefferson.
The two manufacturers are not interchangeable.
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Tim Burke Brief in Support of a Warrant
January 1985, Page 7
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Tim Burke Brief in Support of a Warrant
January 1985, Page 22
In his argument for a warrant for the surgical removal of a splinter from Paradiso's finger, Burke indicates it may be the "only" evidence connecting Leonard Paradiso to the murder of Joan Webster.
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Andrew Palombo Supplement for Warrant
January 1985, Page 2
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FBI Report of Submission from Tim Burke
October 18, 1983
Tim Burke submitted an item he identified as glass. It was the only item submitted described as glass.
Burke does not provide when or where the item was found.
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FBI Lab Logged Items from Tim Burke
October 31, 1983
Item Q38 is the item Burke suggested was glass.
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FBI Lab Report October 31, 1983
Q38 listed as debris or unknown substance.
Item Q38 was not even suitable for testing.
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