John Frankowski Jr. and Kim Delaney (left) claim their cousin Jonathan Roman (top right) killed their father, John S. Frankowski Sr. (bottom right), at the request of their aunts.Photo: Edmund J. Coppa ; AP
[From article]
A middle-aged momma’s boy who was sentenced to 18 years to life behind bars Monday for murdering his uncle was actually the puppet of a greedy family “cabal,” a Long Island lawsuit charges.
The children of victim John S. Frankowski, Sr. claim in the civil suit that their cousin, convicted killer Jonathan Roman, 44, was acting at the direction of his mom Sandra Roman and aunt Annmarie Porter.
The sisters wanted their brother Frankowski dead to land another $100,000 apiece on top of the $200,000 each they were already getting from their late mother’s estate, according to the documents.
[. . .]
Frankowski’s son, John Jr., added of his relatives, “Clearly they’re a bunch of bumbling buffoons.
“But obviously, had it not been for [our investigation], I truly believe that Jonathan and the rest of family, in their mind, thought they were going to get away with murder.”
Jonathan Roman was slapped with the hefty prison term Monday after reading a statement in a Nassau County court in which he said he was sorry for his crime.
“I was using cocaine and smoking pot, I definitely wasn’t thinking clearly that day. I was speaking to my uncle for a while, I brought up an issue with the house and my uncle, and I began to argue. My uncle started to fight with me. Next thing I know, my uncle is dead,” the killer said.
Judge David Sullivan said, “This obviously is a cowardly and heinous act.”
Meanwhile, the victim’s son,w ho traveled from Florida for the sentencing, lamented, ”My dad will only be stories to my children.
“I lost myself after my father was murdered,” he said.
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”
http://nypost.com/2016/02/29/sisters-had-their-brother-killed-for-200k-inheritance-family/
Sisters had their brother killed for $200K inheritance: family
By Julia Marsh, Reuven Fenton and Emily Saul
New York Post
February 29, 2016 | 12:05am
[From article]
A middle-aged momma’s boy who was sentenced to 18 years to life behind bars Monday for murdering his uncle was actually the puppet of a greedy family “cabal,” a Long Island lawsuit charges.
The children of victim John S. Frankowski, Sr. claim in the civil suit that their cousin, convicted killer Jonathan Roman, 44, was acting at the direction of his mom Sandra Roman and aunt Annmarie Porter.
The sisters wanted their brother Frankowski dead to land another $100,000 apiece on top of the $200,000 each they were already getting from their late mother’s estate, according to the documents.
[. . .]
Frankowski’s son, John Jr., added of his relatives, “Clearly they’re a bunch of bumbling buffoons.
“But obviously, had it not been for [our investigation], I truly believe that Jonathan and the rest of family, in their mind, thought they were going to get away with murder.”
Jonathan Roman was slapped with the hefty prison term Monday after reading a statement in a Nassau County court in which he said he was sorry for his crime.
“I was using cocaine and smoking pot, I definitely wasn’t thinking clearly that day. I was speaking to my uncle for a while, I brought up an issue with the house and my uncle, and I began to argue. My uncle started to fight with me. Next thing I know, my uncle is dead,” the killer said.
Judge David Sullivan said, “This obviously is a cowardly and heinous act.”
Meanwhile, the victim’s son,w ho traveled from Florida for the sentencing, lamented, ”My dad will only be stories to my children.
“I lost myself after my father was murdered,” he said.
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”
http://nypost.com/2016/02/29/sisters-had-their-brother-killed-for-200k-inheritance-family/
Sisters had their brother killed for $200K inheritance: family
By Julia Marsh, Reuven Fenton and Emily Saul
New York Post
February 29, 2016 | 12:05am
