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Rahway Police Officer accused of possessing stolen art by a killer who
committed matricide
Roll Call 10 August 2006

On 6 July 2006, officers of the Rahway Police Department discovered the
bodies of Martin Goldberg, 49, and his mother, Joyce Goldberg, inside
their Madison Avenue abode. Neighbors requested that the police check on
the Goldbergs' welfare because they were not seen leaving their home in
over a week. On an extremely hot summer day, the officers entered the
closed up house in a quiet New Jersey neighborhood and discovered Joyce
Goldberg's body in an upstairs bedroom. She showed signs of blunt force to
the head and three stab wounds to her neck and torso area. A baseball bat
lay next to her corpse. Martin Goldberg's body was discovered in an
upstairs bathtub. Apparent cause of Martin's death was a stab wound to the
abdomen. Martin first attempted to electrocute himself but failed, do to
his ignorance of electrical outlets. Martin plugged an appliance into a
ground fault circuit interrupter (gfci) which shorted out the circuit
withing a thousandth of a second of the appliance hitting the water. The
disturbed son then took pills and, after that failed to work, finally
gutted himself with the same knife he used to kill his 85 year old mother.

Martin was a loser who never left home and had no social life. He reported
to his place of employment daily and returned home to work at his only
true passion- creating art. Martin spent long, tedious hours at his
drawing table cutting small pieces of colored pigment paper to make
collages. This tormented outsider artist donated a large collage of a
motorcycle to a fund raiser auction in the late 1980s. Sgt. Dominick
Sforza of the Rahway Police Department won that collage and brought it
home, never hanging it because neither he nor his wife liked the work. A
short time after Dominick Sforza won the artwork Martin Goldberg signed a
complaint accusing the Rahway sergeant of possessing his picture which he
claimed was stolen. He also accused the city and the department of
covering up the alleged crime. Sforza stated that he won the picture in an
honest auction bid and refused to return it to the tormented artist who
was capable of committing homicide as easily as he cut colored paper. The
case was dismissed.

Sforza now states that he does not intend to keep the madman's work.
Encouraged by one of his police colleague's stories of art collectors who
buy art works done by serial killers and death row convicts at inflated
prices, Sforza has decided to sell the collage on e-bay to the highest
bidder.

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(A photo of this collage may be viewed at: Roll Call 10 Aug 2006 entry of
www.YourBrushWithTheLaw.com )