According to Walters, work on the Margolies case slowed to a stop between 1990 and 1996. Last November, the Greenwich police asked the cold case unit to join the probe. As with the Moxley case, Greenwich police have been long and loudly accused of mishandling the initial investigation. I think that if the police had had more experience and had involved the detective division, and had listened more closely to the things we had to say, they would certainly have not gone for that length of time without finding him,'' Maryann Margolies said in a recent interview. All crucial pieces of evidence were sealed after they were last viewed in 1984.
All police reports are in the file.
And, rather presciently, the Greenwich police took hair samples from their suspects. Considering that in 1984 few in law enforcement had ever heard of DNA analysis, it was either far-sighted or inadvertently fortunate, Morano said. Maryann Margolies says the ups and downs in the investigation of her son's murder have become increasingly hard on her. Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company.