![]() ![]() A month later reports started filtering in from several towns that someone was tearing down Billy’s missing person posters. The Smolinskis hung missing person posters throughout western Connecticut, and followed up on every lead that came their way. They scoured the banks of the Naugatuck River and combed through all the spots they knew Billy loved. Several days after Billy disappeared the Smolinski family, unable to get the attention of Waterbury police, launched their own search. The FBI seized control of the investigation in August 2006, and earlier this year they excavated several sites in Shelton in an unsuccessful effort to unearth the remains of Billy Smolinski. Three months after Billy Smolinski vanished, Shaun Karpuik died of a drug overdose in Waterbury. Karpuik was a former grave digger in Seymour, and at the time of Billy’s disappearance Karpuik was working for a landscaping company and had ready access to heavy earth moving equipment. The information given to CrimeStoppers was highly detailed and alleged that Karpuik, with help from at least one friend, strangled Billy inside Madeline’s apartment. ![]() ![]() Janice and Bill Smolinski don’t know the details of what happened to their son on August 24th, 2004, but they believe he was murdered and his body buried somewhere in the lower Naugatuck Valley.Ī tip called into CrimeStoppers, and subsequently released by the Freedom of Information Commission, fingers Madeline Gleason’s son, Shaun Karpuik, as the murderer. (Photograph of Woodbridge politician Chris Sorensen) Billy left a threatening message on Sorensen’s answering machine telling him “to watch his back”, and a few hours later Billy vanished off the face of the earth. (Photograph of Madeline Gleason and Billy Smolinski at a wedding)īilly and Madeline argued, and broke up. After dating for more than a year, Billy discovered Madeline was also involved with a married Woodbridge politician named Chris Sorensen. Billy was dating an older woman, Madeline Gleason, who was 16 years his senior. At the time of his disappearance Billy Smolinski was involved in a love triangle with enough haunting circumstances to launch a Stephen King novel. The Smolinskis are convinced their son was murdered three years ago. “ Everything that could go wrong in this case has gone wrong,” Janice Smolinski said. The Smolinskis were unable to get local authorities to treat the situation seriously, and their own efforts to find Billy have been thwarted by sloppy police work, bungled science, and a national missing person network with holes large enough for a herd of elephants to stampede through.Įverywhere they turned for help they crashed into a wall of incompetence. This extraordinary story began three years ago when Janice and Bill’s 31-year-old son disappeared in Waterbury. The Waterbury Police Department failed them, the political process is messing with their heads, and now they find themselves trapped in a lawsuit filed by their son’s ex-girlfriend that amounts to legalized extortion. How much abuse can Janice and Bill Smolinski take? (Photograph of Billy Smolinski and his dog Harley) In A Bizarre Twist, Billy Smolinski's ex-girlfriend, Madeline Gleason, sues the Smolinski family, and The Waterbury Observer
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