Description of Assailant
VIRGINIA LARZELERE

EDGEWATER POLICE DEPARTMENT

CASE NO: 91-03-0353

HOMICIDE OF NORMAN LARZELERE

Transcript of taped interview taken April 5, 1991, by
Detective Bucky McEver and Detective Sergeant Bennett.

Page 39

VIRGINIA:  ....and I do know that guy leaving had something under his right arm and it was bulky and I do know he was muscular.

Page 41

VIRGINIA: ....there's no way he couldn't.  Even with something like this and the gun still like this, he could still go like that over the side rail.  He was extra strong.

Page 52

VIRGINIA: See, I can't answer that. I can only tell you that I know for a fact that the man had a bundle that he was keeping down under his right arm.  I know for a fact that he still had his finger on that trigger.  They tell me had gloves  but I remember seeing his finger.  Now if he had on gloves they weren't whole gloves because I saw the man's finger.

Page 56

VIRGINIA: No, and I realize that and I understand that but it's like remembering the smell the guy had.  There are a lot of things that I remember but then I'm to the point where I wouldn't not even pick up the phone and say. "Hey, I remember such and such" because, "Oh well, her story changes everyday". I think if it was your wife you'd probably remember less or remember more.  I think we all would.  But I do know this guy had stayed in his clothes for a while, whoever he was.  He was not fresh out of an airplane or a car and in fresh dress clothes.

McEVER: I don't think he was either.

VIRGINIA: Sweat dry, sweat dried, sweat dried.

Pages 58-59

VIRGINIA: (inaudible) and I weigh a lot less than I did.  I've dropped a few pounds but you come right in to there, turn the other way, he was there just like that, with the gun here and a bundle here and when I first encountered him, they're telling me he's got a mask on and I can tell you verbatim what the side of this guy's face looked like and everything.  He did have on long sleeves.  I remember his finger and I grabbed for the gun like this and went up the man's arms like this.  He did not have a watch on, as he did just now, cause my fingers stopped it, and I broke these nails, I broke his skin and I had the blood and he took the one arm with the gun and shoved me backwards. I hit and bent the can, I had a bruise on my back and on the coffeemaker shelf there's still been...my hair was still embedded in it when I opened the office back up after you guys had been in there.

McEVER: So that's the reason you would have the skin is because you didn't go through the sweater, you went up?

VIRGINIA: I went up is sweater and there was very olived skin, outside worker, not Phillipino or if he was then he didn't have facial feature like Mexican or anything.

BENNETT: Would you say he was more like an Italian or Indian or ...?

VIRGINIA: He's either going to be that or he's going to be somebody that stays in the sun all day and if it is a construction worker he does a lot of heavy lifting cause he has an upper torso, shoulders and chest that's remarkable, or he's gonna be a body builder and he'll be Indian or Italian and he doesn't wear cologne.

McEVER: What?

VIRGINIA: No, it's just tension.  I remember something but I don't know...

BENNETT: It might be important, even if it's a maybe.

VIRGINIA: I was angry before when everybody kept saying he had a ski mask and I remember it's not on the mask.  It's like I told (inaudible) something was hanging around his neck and it was coming down off his face, so he tied a scarf or a bandana like I did on there just now.  That's basically what we were trying to achieve, to add more to his face.  I wanted to do this side, I can do his side a lot better then (inaudible)

McEVER: Well, maybe he can come up with something.

BENNETT: Maybe the chief could probably find somebody who's a specialist at it (inaudible)...

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT

March 10, 1991 3:00 PM
Officer: Det. Gamell

....Mrs. Larzelere's statement didn't change much from the previous interview on March 8, 1991, except this time the guy wore black, combat boots, dark clothing and dark skin.  Virginia, when grabbing the gunman, noticed his finger on the gun.