Man accused of killing dad, injuring mom
By Chris Mckenna
Also by Alyssa Sunkin
Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 07/09/10
TUXEDO PARK — A 30-year-old man killed his father and assaulted and held captive his mother during a day-long rampage in their home in the tony gated community of Tuxedo Park, state police investigators said Thursday.
Police say Jesse Green fled the scene but was stopped hours later in Rockland County while driving to Good Samaritan Hospital. He has been charged with second-degree murder and sent to Orange County Jail without bail.
According to state police Capt. Joseph Tripodo, the ordeal at 26 Lookout Stable Road began about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, when Jacqueline Green heard a commotion and went downstairs to find her husband, Daniel, and her son fighting.
When she tried to intervene, her son assaulted her, and later tied her up while she was unconscious, investigators said. She called 911 to report the assault about 6:30 p.m., 12 hours after it began.
After she was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, a rifle-toting unit of the state police found her husband's body. Police believe that Daniel Green, 66, died from blunt force trauma and that a skillet and knife were used in the assaults. An autopsy is pending.
Jacqueline Green, 62, suffered serious facial and head cuts, Tripodo said. According to another police source, she needed 100 stitches to close a gash across her forehead.
As police officers from several agencies hunted for Jesse Green and evacuated neighboring homes in the wooded enclave, Town of Ramapo police stopped him at about 10:20 p.m. while he was driving westbound on Route 59 in his mother's 2007 Mercedes.
Green was arraigned in Woodbury before Tuxedo Park Justice David Levinson around 8:20 a.m. Thursday. Levinson said later that Green asked him in court to issue a gag order to keep the charge confidential.
State police say Green lived with his parents until about two weeks ago, when his mother filed a police complaint against him and a court order of protection was issued. No details about the complaint or order were available Thursday.
The Greens bought their 5,300-square-foot home for $1.6 million in early 2008, with two mortgages totaling $1.5 million, both of which went into foreclosure last year, according to property and court records. The house is listed for sale at $2.1 million.
Suspect was involved in politics
Their son recently made a bizarre entrance into politics by presenting himself as the executive director of the campaign of Kristia Cavere, a 31-year-old Tuxedo resident who waged a short-lived effort to win the Republican nomination to challenge Rep. John Hall this fall.
Republicans who worked briefly with the campaign before pulling out describe Green as erratic and prone to fanciful stories, which at first seemed believable.
"We assumed he was on some kind of medication," said Brendan Quinn, a Republican campaign consultant. "He kind of had that glazed, glassy look."
"He just seemed very unstable," recalled Carmen Dubaldi of New Windsor, who said he worked with the campaign for about five days. "He got mad very easily. He was a very heavy drinker. He was drunk a lot of the time that I dealt with him."
Quinn and Dubaldi believe Green invented the surprising fundraising boasts that Cavere made but never substantiated.
"When he claimed that he raised $400,000, we were suspicious, but he was very convincing," Dubaldi said.
In a strange twist, Cavere appears to have helped lure Green into custody Wednesday night. A police source said that Cavere told Green her mother was in Good Samaritan Hospital and that Green was on his way there — the same place his own mother was being treated for her injuries — when police stopped him.
Staff writers Heather Yakin and Keith Goldberg contributed to this report.
cmckenna@th-record.com
asunkin@th-record.com
GATED VILLAGE
Tuxedo Park, a small village at Orange County's southern edge, was established in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard as a resort for prominent New Yorkers and incorporated as a village in 1952.
There are about 320 homes in the village, which is gated and guarded by the village police department. Members of the public are generally not permitted access to the village without providing a reason to the guard at the gate.
Police officers denied reporters access to the village Thursday. A reporter wishing to obtain information about the Greens' property from Village Hall was escorted in and out of the village by police.
Alyssa Sunkin
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