This incident involves a murder rather than a suicide, but also shows Scn's disregard for anything but PR.
Details in this thread
http://www.forum.exscn.net/archive/index.php/t-15197.html
Summary: Mark Harrison, HAS NYF in 1983, murdered Judy Heiss. Shortly after the murder, we were told that Mark was caught. He wasn't. He wasn't captured until 1989. My guess as to the reason for the lie was so that people who had info would not go to the police and get involved, under the mistaken notion that he was already caught.
I found some archived news reports on Judy's murder, as well as Mark Harrison's criminal record with NYS Corrections and his Parole record. He apparently was arrested in 1984 and convicted of 2nd degree Attempted forgery. Then got out on parole and then was charged and convicted in 1986 of GRAND LARCENY - NOT AUTO 3RD. Then got out and was finally charged /convicted in 1989 of MANSLAUGHTER 1ST Degree for killing Heiss' He got out in 3 years and died a year after going on parole. Very sad they let this guy get such short sentences and a lower charge than murder for killing her. She had her whole life ahead of her and he stole it
Here are more details
NYS Corrections database
Parolee information:
DIN: 89A8609
Name: mark harrison
Date of birth: 5/1/1959
Race / ethnicity: WHITE
Release to parole supervision: 9/21/1998
Parole status: deceased
Effective date: 4/26/1999
Voting pardon issued: No
Offense information (most recent):
Crime of conviction Felony class County of commitment
MANSLAUGHTER 1ST (REV 09/78) b new york
Aggregate Minimum Sentence 0007 Years, 00 Months, 00 Days
Aggregate Maximum Sentence 0014 Years, 00 Months, 00 Days
Earliest Release Date
Earliest Release Type
Parole Hearing Date 03/2000
Parole Hearing Type REAPPEARANCE
Parole Eligibility Date 05/21/1996
Conditional Release Date 09/21/1998
Maximum Expiration Date 05/21/2003
http://www.doccs.ny.gov/paroleelookup/Lookup.aspx?idx=0
Commitment History for HARRISON, MARK
MALE - Born 05/01/1959
As of 08/29/19
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DIN Inmate name Status Facility
89A8609 HARRISON, MARK CR TO PAROLE QUEENSBORO
86D0163 HARRISON, MARK PAR PAROLE MT. MCGREGOR
84A4273 HARRISON, MARK CR TO PAROLE ELMIRA Date
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http://nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov/GCA00P00/WIQ2/WINQ120
Copy paste of the OCR text of archived NY Daily News articles on Judy Heiss' murder. Note the name of her roommate, Anilda Lozada. I was in CA during 1983 but I think maybe she was staff at NY Org.
August 20, 1983
A Publisher Extra Newspaper
Daily News from New York, New York · 38
Publication:
Daily News i
Location:
New York, New York
Issue Date:
Saturday, August 20, 1983
Page:
38
Actress strangled in apt. V " " - I lm A - i ! ' ' 1 V s: i i- X i ' i reports that Mark had lived in the five-room apartment with Heiss and her roommate, school teacher Anilda Lozada, and that the couple had fought after the women told him to move out POLICE DECLINED to list Mark as a suspect, and said they only wanted to question him. "It's too early in the investigation," a detective said. "We're still talking with all her friends and neighbors." Detectives also were questioning workmen who had been installing storm windows in the building Thursday. The slim, curly-haired actress was found when Lozada returned to the apartment at about 8:10 p.m. Thursday. She was fully clothed and lying face up in the living room, police said. . "We didn't find any evidence of robbery and there was no sign of forced entry," according to Detective Lt James Cowan of the Midtown North station, indicating Heiss may have known her killer. Neighbor Graciella Lopez, who usually greeted Heiss on the stoop of the apartment building when the actress came home from work, said she did not see her Thursday night But, she said, she heard "one long, long scream" come from the sixth floor at about 4:30 p.m., not quite four hours before the body was discovered. HEISS WORKED in television in Chicago before coming to New York to make commercials and play minor -parts in soap operas. Her apartment building, occupied largely by actors and actresses, is located in Theater Row, across the street from Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized complex for performing artists. In between acting jobs, she worked as a barmaid at Amy's Pub on Ninth Ave. Another barmaid there, Linda DaGrossa, said the slain woman was "very nice and very ambitious professionally. She worked here for about three years."
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/486399136/
By JOHN RANDAZZO and BRIAN KATES A 37-year-old actress was found strangled with an electric cord in the living room of her apartment on the West Side's Theater Row, police said yesterday. Detectives yesterday were seeking to question the boyfriend of Judy Heiss, who was found dead in her sixth floor walk-up at 413 W. 43d St, where she had lived since moving from Chicago six years ago. Her boyfriend, whom police would identify only as a slim, sandy-haired man named Mark, was seen with her on the day of her death, and neighbors said they had quarreled. "We saw her Thursday morning and she looked quite upset," said one tenant who asked not to be identified. "She had been arguing with her boyfriend over the weekend." Detectives were investigating JL Jl-.jM.V. jfc. Judy Heiss found dead In her apartment
Judy Heiss strangled with electric cord In her apartment.
POLICE DECLINED to list Mark as a suspect, and said they only wanted to question him. "It's too early in the investigation," a detective said. "We're still talking with all her friends and neighbors." Detectives also were questioning workmen who had been installing storm windows in the building Thursday. The slim, curly-haired actress was found when Lozada returned to the apartment at about 8:10 p.m. Thursday. She was fully clothed and lying face up in the living room, police said. "We didn't find any evidence of robbery and there was no sign of forced entry," according to Detective Lt. James Cowan of the Midtown North station, indicating Heiss may have known her killer. Neighbor Graciella Lopez, who usually greeted Heiss on the stoop of the apartment building when the actress came home from work, said she [..]
Judy Heiss strangled with electric cord In her apartment.
[..] did not see her Thursday night. But, she said, she heard "one long, long scream" come from the sixth floor at about 4:30 p.m., not quite four hours before the body was discovered. Heiss worked in television in Chicago before coming to New York to make commercials and play minor parts in soap operas. Her apartment building, occupied largely by actors and actresses, is in Theater Row, across the street from Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized complex for performing artists. In between acting jobs, she worked as a barmaid at Amy's Pub on Ninth Ave. Another barmaid there, Linda DaGrossa, said the slain woman was "very nice and very ambitious professionally. She worked here for about three years."
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/486398958/
You've spent years struggling at this and I know it has been emotionally painful. So much time and effort. You and your spouse deserve to have a smooth, easy time and worked hard for it. Have a very Merry Christmas and wonderful holiday this year. You deserve it.
