Philly Detectives Seize Upon TN

By: Charlotte Williams

On the day before Richman was to fly up to Philadelphia for his doctor’s appointment and later for a sit-down meeting with Reid’s attorney Daniel Silverman, he received an unexpected visit at work from two Philadelphia police detectives. Richman alleges that they “harassed” and “intimidated” him about his upcoming exonerating testimony in the Reid evidentiary hearing. A frightened Richman did not board his scheduled flight the following day.

According to Richman, the two Philadelphia policemen, identified as detectives Cahill and Lynch, allegedly stalked him by first going to his residence where they snooped around his house and questioned his neighbors about him before ending up at his workplace – a pawn shop in Tennessee.

Reid Advocate Williams says that in a conversation she held with Richman, that he told her that Cahill and Lynch told his neighbors that he had been involved in a murder fifteen and a half years ago and that they were there to question him about it. (If Cahill’s name sounds familiar, it is because the transcripts indicate that he was with detective Farabelli back in 1991 when the two stumbled upon supposed nurse and Commonwealth eyewitness Lorraine King Hill.)

Richman told Williams, Silverman, a Tennessee police lieutenant and this writer that he became frightened when the Philadelphia detectives entered his store, and according to him, allegedly began launching a barrage of insults and intimidating threats at him.

A frightened Richman says he felt trapped in a back area of the store where the detectives had been questioning him and made up a ruse to get away from them so that he could phone his local police, who did come out to investigate.