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25 A Woman Plase at the Ssene the Crime DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1978 collared a 16-year-old suspect who allegedly stabbed to death a 15-year-old classmate. Police said it was the first murder ever in a city public school. They conducted numerous interviews with students and teachers. The suspect, on the lam for a month after the murder, was nabbed after his father called police. Posed as a Madam Detective Castoire arrested a 39-year-old woman who allegedly beat her 69-year-old mother to death.

"They lived together in a one-room studio apartment in she recalled. Detective Castoire has received some of the more exotic undercover assignments such as posing as the madam of a Brooklyn brothel. "I refuse to take a defeat," said the 41-year-old detective, who has won seven commendations in her nine years on the force. "I don't think a bad guy can outsmart John Q. Public.

You run down every little lead. Nobody knows where it will go." year. It marks the first time in the history of the department that women have been designated as homicide investigators. The others who have made collars are Detectives Hilda Hubbard of the 13th zone in Brooklyn, Marion McKenna of the 15th zone in Queens, Carolann Natale of the Fourth zone in Manhattan and Marie Castoire of the 10th zone in Brooklyn. Most of the women have had a wide range of experience in investigative or undercover assignments and regard homicide as just another facet of police work.

Nevertheless, they admit that the public is still surprised to find a woman on the track of murder. "When people see a woman, they seem shocked." said Detective McKenna, an 11-year veteran of the force. "They don't assume that you're with the men detectives. They think you're the widow or a relative." Nab Teen in School Killing Detective McKenna and her partner, Louis Vetter, made one of the more sensational arrests when they By NEAL HIRSCHFELD It was a grisly scene a 42-year-old man bleeding- to death in the hallway of his Bronx tenement, shot by a youth after a fist fight. In the old days, they would have said it was no place for a woman.

But no longer. Not only was a woman on the scene two days later she arrested the suspected gunman. "Homicide work is a challenge," said the arresting officer. Detective Hester Bellomo. "Half the time you have no witnesses and your complainant certainly can't tell you anything.

He's dead. You have to pay more attention to your crime scene and your evidence. You have to do your homework." Wide Range of Experience Detective Bellomo, 41, who is married and has three children, is one of five women detectives who have made homicide arrests since nine women were assigned to homicide squads at the beginning of the Yielding fo Progress cuse Car lusur asice 6fp By PETER McLAl fJHLIX and PAUL MESKIL Five men were arrested yesterday on indictments charging complicity in an insurance fraud that allegedly cost motorists and insurance companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. li51. oW s.J 4 Investigators said they have uncovered fraudulent payments in phony "membership" and "messenger fees" of more than $150,000 so far.

The final amount could reach $500,000. The indictments were announced by Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola. who said they resulted from a six-month probe by his investigative squad and the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute. Those indicted were Barry Sutz, 34. a former New York City insurance broker who now lives in Bouled, Harrv Greenberg, 50.

of 53 Aspen Lane. Wood Ridge, N.J.; David Tanke, 33, of 330 Central Park Yonkers: Irving Ayash. 40, of 2261 Farmer New Rochelle, and Haymond Rivera, 29. of 102 27 128th Richmond Hill. Queens.

News Dhoto bv -Dan Jacino Experienced craftsmen begin task of carefully dismantling and crating priceless 100-year-old architectural treasures yesterday at the Villard Houses, on Madison Ave. The landmark buildings and their possessions will be completely restored at tliis site or another New York location after the construction of the $75 million luxury Palace Hotel. All were in the insurance business in the Bronx. Merola said the defendants pulled off hundreds of separate swindles, ranging from as little as $15 to as much as $500. He said motorists who got their car insurance through Sutz were charged a messenger service fee of at least $25 per policy, although the legal limit for such service is $10.

Each motorist was also charged $45 for membership in an auto club that provided emergency services, but the drivers were never enrolled in the club. Merola also said Sutz supplied New York City motorists with fictitious addresses upstate or in eastern Long Island so that they could get lower insurance rates. For example, the district attorney explained. Sutz would offer to obtain car insurance for a Bronx resident for $500. The motorist, knowing the usual Bronx premium was $750, would jump at this bargain.

Sutz allegedly would then use an upstate address to obtain a policy costing only $250. Paid by insurance Firms Thus. Merola said, the motorist would be overcharged and the insurance company would be cheated out of $500. If the motorist was involved in an accident, the insurance company would have to pay the claim een thouch the policy was obtained by fraud. Merola said the insurance cheats also obtained insurance identification cards for nonmedallion cahdrivers at $100 to $250 per card.

The cabbies would then write phony checks for $400, the minimum deposit for cab insurance. By the time the checls bounced, they would already have ab-tained their ID cards tfim-w sens i roupier, wice, "As licensed broadcasters, we have an obligation to the viewing public as to which commercials are appropriate and which are not." a spokesman for the station said yesterday. "The whole category of a school for croupiers raises some questions as to suitability." However, Channel 4. WNBC-TV has accepted a commercial from another croupiers school. The ad.

placed by the New York School of Gambling, was aired last week for the first time. A spokesman for WNBC said the station is currently reviewing an ad application by the Las Vegas School. Channel 2 has rejected a number of commercials on grounds of "unsuitability" in the last year. These include an ad for a mail order demolition course, a dating service commercial that offered cash incentives to attractive women and a baby selling spot geared to pregnant By MICHAEL DALY Ring1 around the collar, yes. Miracle relief from hemorrhoids, yes.

Schools for croupiers, no. Those are the views of the management of WCBS, Channel 2. as expressed by Joe Casale, owner of the Las Vegas School of Dealing here. Happy to run ads for everything from toothpaste to feminine hygiene deodorant, station officials have refused on moral grounds to air commercials for Casale's school. After sinking $100,000 into the school, which is at 260 Court Brooklyn, and obtaining a license from the State Department of Education, Casale followed the example of other enterprising businessmen and laid out $5,000 to make two commercials.

A week later. Marion Hampden, station manager for continuity acceptance," called Casale and informed him that the spots had been rejected. ayor's Tootling of Layoff Horn Ends on a Flat Note By FRANK LOMBIRDI More than a month ago. Mayor Koch announced with much fanfare that his first layoffs would result from plans to restructure an agency that had been termed a traditional "political dumping ground" bv the mayors aides. But as of today, a survey by The ment and interruption will be minimal." Although money will be saved from Koch's reorganization, of the 186 staffers of the agency will actually lose a city job.

Also, union leaders won a morale-boosting battle by preserving the inviolability of civil service status. Heated Shouting Matches The behind-the-scenes battle was led by Victor Gotbaum. executive director of District Council 37, the city's largest municipal union. The workers who were going to be fired were members of one of Gotbaum's locals. The Office of Service Coordination was a potpourri of workers transferred from abandoned programs, including Mayor Lindsay "little City the Office- of" Neighborhood Government and the Yout Services Agency.

Koch staffers. including John LoCicero, a special adviser, have called the agency one where many youth directors got paid "to play basketball." Under the plan announced by Koch on Feb. 7. 125 workers were to be trans-feired to other agencieswith similar civil service job titles. Another 61 workers, because there were no similar job titles in other agencies, were to be fired after 30 days notice.

But Gotbaum, after some heated shouting matches with mayoral aides, was able to persuade Deputy Mayor Paterson to amend the restructuring plan. Of the 61 workers that were to have been fired, 21 have been designated for transfer to other jobs. The remaining 40 will be retained "temporarily," pending completion of a committee study. affected workers would move to other agencies, where they would "bump" provisional workers who do not have civil service prtoection. This phase of the plan is occurring on schedule, but it will now mean the loss of 31 trained welfare clerks, 39 welfare supervising clerks, five Housing Authority recrea tion directors, 17 probation officers and a number of other seasoned qgovisional workers.

Most of the transferred workers from the "dumping ground" agency, the Office of Service Coordination, will need some training in their new jobs, although city officials say "the displace News reveals, not one of the 186 civil servants involved has been axed. Even the jobs of 61 employes who were to have been fired outright were saved by behind-the-scene negotiations between union leaders and the mayor's negotiators. One Phase on Schedule However, the unions have given up claims to $5.3 million worth of disputed cost-of-living increases that were sought for newly rehired workers. "That's a saving," said Basil Pater son, deputy mayor for labor relations. The mayor had said that 125 of the.