![]() ![]() Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general. She was threatening to expose their affair and her pregnancy, according to Putnam. Putnam told police he accidentally choked Smith, a Freeburn, Ky., resident, during an argument at a Pikeville, Ky., hotel shortly after the FBI transferred him to Miami. ``He's a wonderful man,'' said Carol Ponticelli, who was busy preparing for Putnam's arrival. The Ponticellis have remained close to their son-in-law, whose crime became the subject of a book by Joe Sharkey, a former Wall Street Journal editor. Thomas Larson.īefore Putnam heads down to Florida, he will stop in Manchester to visit Kathy's parents, Raymond and Carol Ponticelli, Carol said Thursday. She suffered from organ failure brought on partly by excessive drinking, according to Manchester police Det. Two years ago, Putnam's wife, Kathy, who stood by him through the Smith ordeal, died at the Manchester home she was sharing with their two children. Putnam, now 41, has completed a 10-year prison sentence for killing Susan Daniels Smith, his informant and lover while he was stationed in Kentucky. ![]() His wife, a heavy drinker, died at 38.īut today, Coventry native Mark Putnam, the first FBI agent to be convicted of homicide, will walk out of a Massachusetts prison and begin a new life in Florida. We get a better idea of what happened TO his girlfriend and more DISGUST about the DROPPED Spicocchi, who joined the Toledo office as its supervisory special agent in April, 2000, has been on temporary assignment for about 18 months as a supervisor at the FBI headquarters in Washington. Spicocchi is accused of HOLDING A WOMAN AGAINST HER WILL FOR ABOUT 5 1/2 HOURS AUG. The case will be presented to a grand jury, which meets Nov. HE ALSO WAS CHARGED PREVIOUSLY WITH ASSAULT AND BATTERY, A MISDEMEANOR, BUT PROSECUTORS HAVE DECIDED NOT TO PURSUE THAT CHARGE. Carl Lee Spicocchi, 55, is charged with ABDUCTION and USE OF A FIREARM IN THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY, both felonies. The former special agent in charge of the Toledo FBI office appeared in an Arlington, Va., courtroom yesterday for a preliminary hearing on charges that he held a woman against her will in August. There are too many outrages to this case but what I'd like to know first is how the ASSAULT charge could have ever been a measly misdemeanor in the first place, and what could the justification be for dropping it? "A woman" means his girlfriend, and he's married. This guy is STILL an FBI agent - just not top agent in Toledo anymore. FBI Agent Spicocchi - where did his piddly dv assault charge go?ĭon't let the wording throw you off. Two small bumps to lower edge o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts joeb From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. The first agent in FBI history to be convicted of homicide, Putnam was sentenced to 16yrs in a federal prison. The author recounts the bizarre events that forced Mark Putnam to confess to brutally killing his lover, then covering up his crime for over one year. On June 8, 1989, Putnam took her for a drive into the hills to discuss her demands of marriage. Their relationship began when Susan agreed to be Putnam's paid informant in an investigation of her ex-husband's criminal friends, then quickly grew into an illicit affair that consumed their lives for nearly 2yrs - until she became pregnant and threatened to expose Putnam, ruining his career and his marriage. When a good-looking big city FBI agent named Mark Putnam entered her life, Susan thought her prayers had been answered. Dirt poor, divorced, the mother of 2 young children, Susan Daniels Smith, 27, prayed for a handsome Prince Charming who would take her away from the squalor of her rural Kentucky community to live in romance and luxury. ![]()
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