Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 2

Ji 2 The Mystery of Chaim Weiss Show renews hunt for yeshiva killer Chaim Weiss By Susan Forrest STAFF WHITER In an apartment- building overlooking the ocean yesterday Nassau Homicide Det Don Daly accompanied by a rabbi stood over a table occupied by 10 yeshiva students preparing to question them about the murder of one of their fellow students fellas How ya Daly began casually But within minutes his voice was pleading: somebody did something and is just embarrassed or afraid to tell us because they think they will implicate themselves not the case We will not go and tell the rabbis what you said I have already cleared that with the rabbis If anyone at all has information or if they now recall something come forward Do you fellas understand how important this is? Come and give us a hand He was your friend And dead And we want to find his The action yesterday took place in a Brooklyn apartment house but it was the re-enactment of a Beene at a Jewish boarding school in Long Beach more than five years ago The yeshiva students and the rabbi were actors but the detective was real The story was that of the still unsolved mystery in the murder of yeshiva student Chaim Weiss Yesterday was an eerie mix of past and present as the NBC-TV show filmed a future episode of a murder with a myriad of mysteries no motive no suspects and a trail of unexplainable events Chaim 15 a student at the Yeshiva of Long Beach was found murdered in his dorm room at 7:15 am on Nov 1 1986 A dorm counselor discovered the rajama-clad body lying partially on his bed He was killed instantly police said by a object There were no signs of a struggle and nothing was taken from the room Chaim was last seen by other students at 1:20 am reading a book in a third- floor hallway of the dorm Daly the real-life detective on the case is baffled still by a sequence of events: An unexplained mourning candle found in the room after the murder opened bedroom window the sighting by a jogger of someone on the boardwalk who appeared to be a yeshiva student 15 minutes before body was found and evidence that his body had been moved by the time it was found know some of the talk going around the yeshiva is that eveiyone knows about some of these questions the police need Daly Bays to the 10 young actors and the cameras yesterday re-enacting his actual speech to students ifi Long Beach two weeks after the murder very hard for us to imagine that an outsider would come in and light a candle in the room If somebody lit a candle as a beautiful thing for Chaim like to know about it And we know Chaim would not have had that window open because he was sick And we have a yeshiva-type student sitting on the boardwalk early in the morning prior to going to services which is a little unusual because you usually go to services first and then you go about your business for the day Another thing is we feel someone moved the body and what trying to find out is did anyone at all a rabbi one of the students run into that room to try and help Chaim when they saw him? of these things are very very important to us and we have to resolve them not asking anyone to raise their hands and Bay did this or I did What I want iB for you to come to me privately If you moved the body because you were trying to assist Chaim let us know If you opened the window because who knows why let us know These things we have to put behind us to get on with the No one has come forward to this day Rami Metal 16 a yeshiva student in Manhattan who portrays Chaim said yesterday tried to find out as much as I could about the case I was too young to remember it but my mother remembers It is an unsolved and heart-wrenching mystery for family is not one night my wife and I go to bed without crying for our father Anton Weiss 45 of Staten Island told Nowaday yesterday am pleading with anyone who has information to come forward to the Weiss has already been interviewed for the segment hosted by Robert Stack and scheduled to air in May although no date has been set An director said that the Chaim Weiss case came to the attention after a researcher found it in Newsday As the crew from began to pack its gear and head home to Los Angeles yesterday Daly stood near the water in Brighton Beach and ruminated on the smaller unsolved mysteries he believes could lead to the answer to the bigger mystery he said after five years memory will be triggered so Chaim can finally rest in TTT a atfifda -V rtiiAMlVirijii WAJWbi fAlmana Sl On this date in history: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone (1876) The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place (1926) Adolf Hitler ordered troops into the Rhineland breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact (1936) birthdays: actor Daniel Travanti 52 tennis star Ivan Lendl 32 News section indudes Business Part II includes Life Over 60 Fitness and Hobbies Real Estate indudes Real Estate classified BEEHEEESl NEWS Omarr 26 World 8 TV Listings 74 SPORTS Business 15 Tom Verducd91 Obituaries! 13 High Schools 85 Switchboard 12 Scoreboard 81-83 PART II VIEWPOINTS Ann Landers 22 Editorials 16 DearAbby 20 Letters 16 Senior Class 19 REAL ESTATE Fitness 21 Markets 41 Homertretch-37 Cryptoquote 22 CLASSIFIED Movies 69 Weather 62 taTSvMMl MUMd My IMhSmW byNnSy he MM rn Mr My low MM 11747 SM I Mm ctwgt to NMm MUM NY 11747-4250 Stud IM Mr Sm pMMM by Nmw he DMLWSUNMY DAILY SUNDAY 52 WM 533600 523400 510600 2SMta 510000 511700 55200 13WM 55650 56500 52600 52500 51500 5500 Corrections 15 16 HELPING HANDS: The FDA will hire more staff and streamline procedures to approve biotechnology products more quickly FDA Commissioner David Kessler said EDITORIAL: If you know that 7 times 8 is 56 you learned your multiplication table But -your children doing as well simply because drilling is becoming part of the past Because of a production error the numbers of two letters were omitted from the dues in the Quote-Acrostic in last Sunday's FanFare Hie numbers at the end of Clue are 44 and 113 A story on Jan 21 in some editions of Newsday on unlicensed home-improvement firms report- ed that a Great Neck homeowner had filed an unsuccessful complaint in District Court against Anchor Glass Cabinet Co of Great Neck The statement was attributed to partners in the company According to the derk for small claims court in Great Neck the homeowner won a $2139 judgment against the firm in October 1991 Hie award was overturned but the home-owner then won a new judgment of $2167 The name of Jim Morgo president of the Long Island Housing Partnership was misspelled yesterday in a story about a master plan for North Bellport i Part' 1 1 17 Pick 10: 3 5 6 12 18 36 40 41 43 48 51 55 56 64 66 71 72 73 79 80 Dally Number: 8 1 3 Win Fear: 6 3 8 4 Take Five: 6 11 15 16 32 COPING: How do working parents manage to give children the attention they need? 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