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Case #5: Milos Ivan Covic, eighty-two-year-old man from

Park Slope, Brooklyn, middle of the afternoon, plunges out

Ot his ninth floor apartment and makes an ungodly ss

On Prospect Park West, near Grand Army Plaza. His bed-

a break-in or robbery. However, several framed black-and-

of

Window is wide open. apartment locked, no STgis

e photos of a young Covic with others, family probably, are found shattered on the floor by the window

is no suicide note. The man, a Croatian immigrant wh

window. There

had

worked for fifty years as a cobbler, had no living relativ

and was so reclusive there was no one who could atte

to

his mental state. The apartment was covered in only on set

of fingerprints: his.

Will leafed through the stack of vintage photographs

And there's no ID on any of these people?"

"None," Nancy replied. "His neighbors were all inter-

viewed, we put out feelers among the Croatian-American

community, but nobody knew him. I don't know where to

Any ideas?"

He pointed his palms towar