MISSING A BODY OF EVIDENCE No murder case without a corpse:[SPORTS FINAL Edition]
MICHELE MCPHEE DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF. New York Daily News. New York, N.Y.: Apr 3, 2002. pg. 22
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Lourdes Gruart was once a high-priced Manhattan model. Kristine Kupka, a pregnant college student from Brooklyn, disappeared after a shopping trip. Michael Nash spent his old age playing Lotto at his Bronx home. Samiya Haqiqi was a gorgeous law student who lived with her family in Queens. [William Cutolo Jr.] was a reputed mobster who ran a Brooklyn crime syndicate.
On April 8, 2000, Mary ...
GIRL'S PARENTS HIT ON LIFESTYLE:[SPORTS FINAL Edition]- Interview with Gil Alba
CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER. New York Daily News. New York, N.Y.: Feb 12, 2002. pg. 6
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Brenda van Dam told the San Diego Union-Tribune she met [David Westerfield] last month, when she and [Danielle] went to his house peddling Girl Scout cookies.
The van Dams received widespread sympathy when they went on national TV to plead for Danielle's safe return. Their neighbors set up a Web site with a poster of Danielle, and the Millennium Children's Fund, a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based ...
MYSTERY DEATHS HAUNT 4 FAMILIES / AFTER VANISHING WITHOUT A TRACE, 4 YOUNG MEN'S BODIES SHOW UP
PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY. New York Daily News. New York: Jun 7, 1998. pg. 18: Photo of Gil Alba
METROPOLITAN DESK | March 17, 2002, Sunday - - - NEW YORK TIMES: Gil Alba
FOLLOWING UP
By Joseph P. Fried (NYT) 629 words
Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 39 , Column 1
ABSTRACT - Following Up column recalls case of Kristine Kupka, pregnant honors student at Baruch College who disappeared in Oct 1998 after leaving her Brooklyn home with one of her former college instructors, Darshanand Persaud; her family suspects foul play in which Persaud was involved, but there is not enough evidence for police to act; photo; Dr Ehud Arbit, neuro-surgeon who in 1995 was fired from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital for operating on wrong side of patient's brain, and who was later accused of same mistake with another patient at Staten Island University Hospital, has not returned to medical practice; he is working instead as medical and science adviser (M)
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"This boy was murdered," said Gitty Bender, whose son, Joshua [Bender], was found in the Hudson River May 24, 12 days after he left his Yeshiva University dorm room. "It wasn't an accident. Whether it's related to the others, I don't know."
"It's not that we're imagining all this, others say there's a possibility," said Susan Andrews, whose son Lawrence [Andrews] disappeared from 42nd St. on ...
MISSING WOMAN'S SIS FEELS FOR VICTIM'S FAMILY: Interview with Gil Alba
ROCCO PARASCANDOLA. New York Post. New York: Mar 14, 1999. pg. 3
People: Kupka, Kristine, Kupka, Kathy
Section: News
Text Word Count 250
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The sister of Kristine Kupka, the pregnant Baruch College student missing since October, was overcome by emotion when she heard another missing Baruch student had been found dead.
"I just felt horrible," Kathy Kupka said. "I felt a feeling of solidarity with the family. I had all the feelings for them that I have for Kristine."
[Persaud] was the missing woman's science teacher at Baruch ...
METROPOLITAN DESK | August 7, 2003, Thursday : Gil Alba
BOLDFACE NAMES
By Joyce Wadler; with Melena Z. Ryzik and Paula Schwartz (NYT) 784 words
Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 2 , Column 3
ABSTRACT - Joyce Wadler, Boldface Names column, discusses Le Divorce premiere, where Kate Hudson and husband Chris Robinson arrive on red carpet; Lizzie Grubman teaches class at Learning Annex on public relations and image marketing (M) Just one more thing, because Gil will no doubt be too modest to tell you this: Last year in the wittier-than-thou -- and read-by-everyone-who's-everyone-in-New-York NY Times column "Boldfaced Names" -- a chronicle of the rich, the cultured, the famous, the accomplished, and the bullshit artists of Gotham: Gil (not Brad Pitt, not Michael Blooomberg, not Henry Kravis, not Graydon Carter, not Sean P. Diddy Combs) -- our Gil -- was cited for his sartorial wardrobe.
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New York Times: March 17, 2002
FOLLOWING UP
Family Still Searching for Sister, and Justice 
By JOSEPH P. FRIED
They are tormented by their loss, and tenacious in seeking the justice they deem due.
On Oct. 24, 1998 , Kristine Kupka, 28, a pregnant honors student at Baruch College in Manhattan , disappeared after leaving her Brooklyn home with one of her former college instructors, the police said. Her family said Ms. Kupka and the instructor had begun a relationship when she was in his science lab, that he was the father of the child she was carrying and that they had argued over his insistence that she have an abortion and her desire to give birth.
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Missing/Murdered
On the morning of Oct. 24, 1998 , Kristine Kupka telephoned her sister Kathy to let her know that she was meeting her boyfriend, Rudy Persaud. She was going to help him clean out a Brooklyn apartment he had recently rented. "Boyfriend" was a relative term; Kupka and Persaud were having some problems. That morning Kupka reportedly met Persaud outside her Kensington, Brooklyn , house. She got into his car and they drove off. That was the last time she was ever seen.
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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: Kristine was college honor student until the day she disappeared. Her boyfriend, Rudy, was the last person to see her alive.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She said, "If anything happens to me, it was Rudy who did it. " RATHER: The police say there`s no proof of any crime, but Kristine`s sister suspects Rudy of murder. So she`s doing her own investigation.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There he is, four cars ahead.
RATHER: And keeping the pressure on Rudy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Rudy, Rudy, you can`t hide.
RATHER: Erin Moriarty investigates: Did Kristine just disappear, or is Rudy getting away with murder?
ERIN MORIARY, CBS CORRESPONDENT: ...
New York Magazine
January 11, 1999
By: Sheila Weller
WHAT HAPPENED TO KRISTINE KUPKA? With the help of ex-NYPD detective Gil Alba --a specialist in solving kidnappings by Colombian and Dominican drug dealers
THE VANISHING
Smart, spirited, and happily pregnant, Kristine Kupka told friends she was going to check out an apartment with the father of her baby. That was ten weeks ago. She hasn’t been seen since.
