Joseph Patrick Martin March 25, 1996 Kerhonkson, NY

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Missing: Joseph Patrick Martin NIC #M915205857
Basic Information
Race: White
Sex: Male
DOB: November 12, 1980
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 115 pounds
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Blonde
Other: Left ear is pierced twice

Additional Information
Last Seen: Date: March 25, 1996
Time: 10:40 p.m.
Location: Residence: Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY

If you have any information, please call:

Agency: New York State Police
Address: Troop F, Bureau of Criminal Investigation Ellenville, New York
Phone: (845) 626-2800
or e-mail the information to:
nysvicap@troopers.state.ny.us (nysvicap@troopers.state.ny.us)
Please include your
name, address and
telephone number.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Blond hair, hazel eyes. Martin's left ear is double-pierced. His two upper eye teeth cross over each other. Martin had a slim, muscular build at the time of his 1996 disappearance and was a track runner. His nickname is Joey. His head was shaved at the time of his disappearance, except for his ponytail.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A green and blue flannel shirt, a hooded green sweatshirt, blue jeans and dark-colored sneakers.

Details of Disappearance

Martin was last seen departing from his family's residence on Samsonville Road in Kerhankson, New York at 10:40 p.m. on March 25, 1996. His brother said Martin climbed out of a window in his bedroom. He planned to meet two friends at the Schwabbie Turnpike, less than one mile from their home, to watch the Hyakutake comet. His friends waited for him at the site, but they left after he failed to arrive by midnight. Martin was reported as a missing person during the following morning. He has never been heard from again.

Authorities received unconfirmed sightings of Martin in the New Paltz, New York area in 1999. Dan Malak, one of the friends Martin was scheduled to meet on the night of his 1996 disappearance, was imprisoned sometime afterwards on murder charges. Investigators said that the incident was unrelated to Martin's case and they did not believe Malak was involved with his disappearance.

Martin's case may be classified as that of an Endangered Runaway. He was a student at Rondout Valley High School in 1996. Martin enjoys skateboarding. His case remains unsolved.

http://www.troopers.state.ny.us/wanted_and_missing/Missing/view.cfm?ID=01dd1f14-d304-4f35-bcb1-ad7053b9d45c

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UPDATES!!!!!

Accused killer says he's 'not bad'15-year-old bludgeoned
Posted: May 14, 2008 - 2:00 AM
ACCORD — Alex Barsky told police he doesn't think he is a bad person. Not really.
Even though he plotted with his buddy Daniel Malak in 1996 to beat their childhood friend Joey Martin over some petty theft.

Even though he and Malak bludgeoned Martin, a baby-faced 15-year-old, to death with a pipe that night of March 25. Then they dumped him in a wheelbarrow and hid his body.

Even though he went back to the scene of the slaying off Samsonville Road in the Town of Rochester twice in the years since. Even though the last time he put Martin's skeletal remains in a plastic bag and scattered them among garbage cans in Brooklyn to hide his tracks.

Even so, Barsky said he had lived a good life since then, state police Investigator Peter Cirigliano testified at Barsky's preliminary hearing last evening before Rochester Justice Albert Babcock. "He said he couldn't be more sorry about his involvement in such a horrible thing," Cirigliano read from Barsky's statement. "He said, 'I'm just happy to get it off my chest,'" the investigator told Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Katherine Van Loan.

Babcock ruled there was enough probable cause to hold Barsky for action before a county grand jury.

Barsky, now 27, sat at the far side of the packed courtroom, separated by dozens of Martin's family members and friends. They poured out sobs of grief as Cirigliano read Barsky's detailed description of how Malak struck the first heavy blows and Barsky swung weakly at the fallen Martin when Malak handed over the 2-foot-long pipe.

A look of pain and horror swept across the face of Martin's mother, Cathaleen Lightstone, as Cirigliano read how Barsky disposed of her son's remains.

Barsky's mother sat alone in the front row during the hearing and left immediately. Her son's lawyer, Neil Checkman of New York City, questioned Cirigliano on whether Barsky had asked for a lawyer during the hours of interrogation May 8. He had not, Cirigliano said.

The hearing started a good 30 minutes late and set up a bizzare situation where family on both sides, Barsky's lawyer, and the press were locked out of the courtroom. Word spread later that a local man had followed Barsky and his guards into the courtroom on their arrival and attacked Barsky. A sheriff's deputy took the man away in handcuffs just before the courtroom door opened. Martin's Aunt Patricia Atkins said it was sad the family had to wait 12 years to get closure on Joey's death. "It's horrible that little boy had to go that way," she said outside after the hearing.

"Time for you to rot in hell with Daniel Malak," a unidentified man said to Barsky as police took him back to the Ulster County Jail. Malak is serving time in a state prison for murder. "No mercy," the man said.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS/805140359

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Teen's killer could get 10 years
Family says maximum sentence is not enough
Posted: August 13, 2008 - 2:00 AM
KINGSTON — He walked into Ulster County Court with his head turned to a wall Tuesday, unable to look the family and friends of Joseph Martin in the eyes.

Minutes later, Alex Barsky stood in front of Judge J. Michael Bruhn and pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the 1996 bludgeoning death of Martin, who was 15 at the time.

And because Barsky was himself 15 at the time he killed his childhood friend, the worst sentence he can expect to serve is 10 years, a sentence that Martin's family found outrageous.

"He took Joey from us for 12 years — forever. And the worst he can get is 10 years?" said Emily Martin, Martin's younger sister.

For 45 excruciating minutes, Martin's family and friends sat in silence broken by sobs as Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright re-created the grisly details of how Barsky and another friend, Daniel Malak, struck Joseph Martin in the head with a steel pipe in a makeshift cabin in Accord because, Barsky said, Martin had "robbed" him several times.

Malak is now serving time in state prison for murdering a 61-year-old Samsonville man — a crime he committed at age 17.

When asked by Carnright the nature of his relationship to Martin, Barsky said "friend," a description that triggered a muffled sob from Martin's mother, Cathaleen Lightstone.

He described how, after Malak struck Martin in the head twice and Barsky hit him a third time, the two put Martin's body in a wheelbarrow and dumped it in the woods. Barsky returned twice to the body. The second time, in 2002, he collected Martin's bones, put them in garbage bags and dumped the bags in several trash cans in New York City.

Carnright praised the state police investigation that culminated in May with Barsky's arrest. He noted that DNA evidence played a key role in the arrest, since Barsky had so thoroughly disposed of Martin's body.

Carnright later said his hands were tied by the sentencing strictures of juvenile statutes. The reason for his detailed examination of Barsky was to put into the record the heinous nature of his offense for review when Barsky is eligible for parole. He said he intends to ask for the maximum sentence at a hearing scheduled for early October.

At one point during Carnright's examination, Barsky declared: "I didn't want to do it. I didn't know how to react and I was afraid."

Shortly thereafter, he was led away by sheriff's deputies to Ulster County Jail, his face turned again to the wall, seeking escape from the accusing eyes of his remaining victims.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/NEWS/808130342

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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/martin_joseph_patrick.html
No copy/paste from above, but good info re: May 08' updates