EP 3: SP 98-99
Soul Portrait ID: 99
Sabina Kulakowski
BIRTH - 27 Dec 1941 - Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, USA
DEATH - 23 May 1991 (aged 49) BURIAL - Saint Joseph's Cemetery
MEMORIAL ID - 9147544
In 1991, the murder of a New York social worker, Sabina Kulakowski, who was found naked, beaten, bitten and strangled outside the farmhouse where she lived in Aurelius, a town of 3,000, made national headline news.
At the time, a man named Roy Brown, a self-professed hard drinker who made a living at the time selling magazine subscriptions in Syracuse, 30 miles to the east, did not know Ms. Kulakowski. Just six days before her killing, he had been released from jail, where he spent eight months for making threatening phone calls to another social worker at the agency where she worked.
The main piece of evidence used in the trial was bite mark evidence found on Sabina's body. Roy Brown ended up being convicted of her murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life for the 1991 murder of Sabina, despite one expert dentally excluding him of suspicion, as well as him continuously professing his innocence.
In 2003, after a fire at his mother's residence destroyed his trial transcripts, Mr. Brown requested the documents from his prison cell. There he learned that police had identified an alternate suspect named, Barry Bench, who he was previously unaware of before he received the re-issued court documents.
After reviewing all the case files, Brown knew he had found the real killer of Sabina Kulakowski, her brother-in-law Barry Bench, who had held a grudge against Sabina for remaining in the farmhouse after her husband, Ron (Barry's brother) left Sabina, but Ron continued to let Sabina stay in the house, thus, preventing Barry Bench from selling the property easily.
Now armed with all the information, Roy Brown tried to appeal, but again was denied. In desperation, he sent a letter to Mr. Bench telling him that DNA evidence would soon prove that he was Sabina's killer, in hopes that he would send a letter back and lick the envelope, therefore producing a DNA sample for comparison. The end of the letter read, "Well, Christmas is tomorrow. My gift to you is to mark my words, they will eventually find out of your guilt. Have a Merry X-mas, but don't count on a Happy New Year."
Five days after receiving Roy's letter, Barry Bench ended up taking his own life by jumping in front of an oncoming train. Roy Brown, once again appealed his conviction, but was once again denied, based on the fact that the teeth marks on Sabina's body were unable to be matched to Barry Bench's teeth, having been destroyed by the suicide.
Finally, in another attempt to save his own life no matter what, Roy Brown reached out to The Innocence Project, who then fought to get Berry Bench’s body exhumed, proving without a shadow of a doubt that Barry Bench was indeed Sabina Kulakowski's killer and Roy Brown was not. Mr. Brown was only the eighth person in New York State exonerated through DNA evidence at that time.
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After first seeing the story on the Medical Detectives show, Sabina's crime scene photo was visible for about 7 sec. of the video. I felt everything stop in those seconds and I could definitely see someone hovering in the photo above Sabina's body - which, it turns out would not be an easy to come by photo. Upon researching the case, the first photo I found was of the farmhouse after the fire had been extinguished, which clearly showed Sabina's face in between the door frame in the photo.
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This led me to then do an extensive search for that 7 sec. photo of the crime scene that I had first seen in the video. It was a long search, but I finally found the opportunity to capture the same crime scene photo from the video that I had originally seen someone in, the one which drew me to Sabina's case. I honestly felt like Sabina was calling out to me to tell her story again by appearing so clearly in the farmhouse photo. Below is the actual crime scene photo I speak of, and also a photo outlining where I was initially drawn to in the photo.
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It ended up that, what I thought was just one place I could see Sabina's real murderer, Barry Bench, turned into three distinct places that he fit into the same photo. I have coined a term for when this happens, called a "Double Mint" (a common occurrence in Soul Portraits), which is just basically Spirit letting me know that I'm fitting the correct soul into the photo. I explain the story pretty well in the video that I'll post for you at the end.
Of course, no one ever thought to look for a soul portrait in the crime scene photo, nor would it have been taken as proof, in any sense of the word anyhow .. 🙏🏼 but God knows ♥️ RIP Sabina ~ never forgotten!
~ Be sure to watch the video to find out more about the wrong man who went to prison for Sabina's murder, Roy Brown, and how he actually solved this crime 12 years after being incarcerated for it, literally from inside his prison cell walls.
It was truly an amazing story to have been gifted to retell!
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