So what really happened in Hyde Park?

It appears that this page was not the only information source to be somewhat suckered into the intense rumors of an arrest in the Filiberti case. Is this more evidence of a police coverup? Don't ask the Hyde Park police, they have no comment.

The phone began ringing around 8

p.m. Monday the 27th. They began with

a simple but breathless inquiry. “Did you

hear they just arrested two cops in the

Filiberti case?” By 9 p.m., the rumors

were really fl ying.

We immediately began working the

phones to determine if there was anything

to the rumors. There wasn’t and we told

people as much.

By midnight, it was clear nobody

seemed inclined to let the facts get in the

way of a good rumor.

Hudson Valley News was, at the same

time, slightly confl icted as the rumors

spread. We were sitting on information that

two Hyde Park Police offi cers had been

asked to provide DNA to investigators.

However, being a weekly publication,

we were obliged to wait on that story until

we published on Wednesday, which we did.

It was legitimate news and we did not

publish the offi cers’ names, although we

could have.

We also could have put it up on our

website, but decided not to pour gasoline

on a fi re that needed no assistance from us.

By 7 a.m. on Tuesday, the phones were

smoking once again.

Otherwise-rational people

were frantic for information already believed the rumors.

Many of those calling

had the offi cers’ names and

had no trouble presuming guilty. Some people were aghast few skeptical.

http://www.thehudsonvalleynews.com/HVNews/HVNews_files/0706HN00A001.pdf