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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thursday, November 12, 1987 CITYAREA 6 Chiefs ouster adds few clues to disappearance case violations such as drunken driving. The first arrest was in April 1974, The last was on Jan. 21, 1980 three weeks before he disappeared. During this period, investigators say, Michael Rosenblum required drug-abuse treatment on six occasions. He was sent to clinics including Gateway Rehablitation Center and Western Pyschiatric Institute Clinic.

The latter was where he met his most recent girlfriend, Lisa Sharer. He had completed a 28-day treatment program at Gateway Jan. 10, 1980, five weeks before he disappeared, his father said. Maurice Rosenblum has blamed his son's drug problem on Dr. Paul James of Beach Haven, N.J., where the Rosenblums had a summer "Sometimes you're real high, pitching some girl, and some gorilla comes out of the woodwork and wants to kill you.

It happens to everybody. "We were all kind of wild back then, but I guess with Michael, he had a problem, he absolutely had a problem with alcohol and drugs," Levy said. On several occasions, Levy recalls Rosenblum being ejected from bars. He also recalls trying to get the keys to Rosenblum's Datsun 240-Z so he could drive the pair home safely. Eventually, Michael's father was to confiscate his son's car because, he said, of repeated traffic violations.

Indeed, of Rosenblum's three arrests by Pittsburgh police for possession of drugs, two involved traffic "The reason she was screaming, Levy said, "was that she cared. She saw her son destroying himself with drugs and alcohol." So, of course, did his father. When Michael said he wanted to drop out of college, Maurice Rosenblum did what he could. "He was almost finished that's why I screamed for almost a year. But he wanted the good life, he wanted a Datsun 240-Z, so I said the only way you're going to get one is to go to work." And work he did, as an insurance salesman in his father's business.

He continued to do so until the day he disappeared. "If you knew Michael, you'd know he would never leave without his wallet, money, watch or car," his home. According to Rosenblum, his son made hundreds of phone calls to James that enabled him to get dozens of illicit prescriptions. James surrendered his medical license in February 1981 after an investigation by the New Jersey attorney general's office. Michael is identified in two of nine counts against James, charging that the doctor illegally prescribed Per-codan, Valium and Tussionex, a narcotic cough syrup, to Michael between 1976 and February 1980, a spokesman for the New Jersey attorney general's office said.

Levy, who often vacationed with the Rosenblums in Beach Haven, recalls Michael's mother, Barbara, flushing pills down the toilet after finding them. FROM PAGE 1 Michael is remembered as a young man who wanted to emulate his father by working for him, but who did not want to finish college first; somebody who had a heavy drug habit but who thought of it "as a fun thing, something he could handle," his father said. "He was a great individual, real outgoing," Levy said. "He was a good-looking guy and the girls were attracted to him. He never had a problem in that department." Percodans, Quaaludes, Valium and alcohol were another matter.

Levy said he and Michael would spend many a weekend cruising Shadyside singles bars. Sometimes, the night would end abruptly. 'Most Major Credit Cards AccG3tcd Prices Good Thru Monday At New Stores Only father said. "We may have had problems in the past, but he never would leave under those circumstances." The last person known to see Michael Rosenblum was Lisa Sharer, the former Whitehall woman and the mystery within the mystery. Sharer is the common thread tying Michael's disappearance to the downfall of the borough's police chief.

Not until this week has anyone Maurice Rosenblum or the investigators in the Gaburri case made more than a fleeting effort to find her. Now, the borough's special prosecutor, Robert Cindrich, is looking. Estranged from her second husband at the time she dated Michael Rosenblum, Sharer, described as an attractive even glamorous woman, has since been divorced from him and has married a third time. She may have moved back to Florida or to Baltimore, but nobody, knows for certain. Lawyers say Sharer's whereabouts are not a central issue in the case against Gaburri.

Maurice Rosenblum, meanwhile, is convinced that she was just a role player in his son's disappearance a part-time lover in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is not known how long Sharer knew Michael Rosenblum, but their relationship was short-lived and fast-paced. Their final two days together have become a recurring theme in Maurice Rosenblum's mind. Feb. 13, 1980: Michael calls Sharer after his mother angrily orders him to leave the house.

Later that evening, Michael takes Sharer to the Encore, a Shadyside nightclub that has since closed, where she applies for a waitress' job. They spend the night at Sharer's adoptive mother's house in Whitehall. Feb. 14, morning: Worried that Michael is ill because of his chronic use of drugs, Lisa drives him to Jefferson Hospital. "His eyes just kept rolling back in his head.

He looked really bad," she is quoted as saying in a 1981 deposition. Despite medical advice, Michael refuses treatment and walks out of the emergency room. Lisa chases him and talks him back into her car. After stopping at a filling station in West Homestead, Michael drives off without Lisa and her 3-year-old daughter, Jessica. This forces them to hitchhike to Oakland, where Lisa voluntarily enters Western Psychiatric Institute Clinic.

Feb. 14, early afternoon: Crippled by two shredded tires and dented along the driver's side, Lisa Sharer's new Pontiac Sunbird sits abandoned on River Road in Baldwin Borough. It is prime bait for a tow truck, but nobody is sure how the car got there with Rosenblum or without him. It was more than three months before the towed Pontiac resurfaced CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 CORDLESS ELECTRIC 5 CORDLESS ELECTRIC PENCIL SHARPENER THREE-STORE GRAND OPENING! FT 4r 127 5th AVENUE NORTH HILLS VILLAGE MALL i -I Value 61-2795 (bin LlobnlY UUWNIUWN; oui iviurvmum nu. PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH QUAKER VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER OHIO RIVER BLVD.

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