The Baldwin Police Department Covered Up Michael Roseblum's Death In 1980

by Rhett Rhodes

     

That's a very bold title and statement right off the bat but hear me out, it has to be true. I read every word of this case and then some, there's quite literally no possible way that Michael Rosenblum, who disappeared in January of 1980, wasn't murdered by this police department. Michael Rosenblum was a 26 year old man who always got himself into trouble with the police due to his heavy drinking and drug use. Whenever he would get pulled over by law enforcement he would often times fight with the police when being detained and even had a history of trying to get away from the police causing huge chases. In basic terms, he was a bit of a menace so that's definitely one thing to keep in mind when diving into this case, because obviously police officers were severely impatient with him in general.

    Michael met a woman named Lisa Sharer as they both stayed at a psychiatric institute in December of 1979; quickly enough, the two grew closer and closer to each other, and while getting out in January of 1980, they would form something of a relationship with each other and see each other quite often as they lived rather close to one another. The night before Rosenblum disappeared, he drank heavily and had taken drugs, and after he had woken up the next day he could still feel the effects of the alcohol and drugs, so Sharer rushed him to the hospital. While the doctors wanted to examine him more thoroughly and possibly do some testing, he became extremely agitated and aggressive and walked out of the hospital with Lisa and her 3 year old daughter. Rosenblum decided it was best if he returned home to his parents who had just kicked him out of the house earlier that day, and Sharer agreed to drive him there and drop him. En route to his parents, Lisa accidentally drove over a curb which annoyed Michael intensely, and when she exited the vehicle after parking at a gas station, Michael exited too and berated her for having bad driving; this screaming match in a public parking lot garnered the attention of others outside in the area and the police were called.

    Way before the cops could arrive at the gas station, Rosenblum ordered Lisa and her daughter to get out of the car and that he needed to borrow it. He told her to meet him at his parents house in two hours before driving off, leaving Lisa and her daughter stranded at the gas station. This was absolutely the last time Michael was seen alive. He was driving through Baldwin to Pittsburgh but never made it it to Pittsburgh, but how? Where's Lisa's car? Surprise, surprise; Lisa's car was soon located at the Baldwin police department's impound lot. The Baldwin police knew who the car belonged to after impounding it, yet Lisa was never once contacted that they had her car there FOR THREE WHOLE MONTHS until the owner/runner of the impound lot requested a salvage permit from the state of Pennsylvania and found that the car had been reported as stolen, and that's what prompted the Baldwin police called Sharer and notified her that they had her car, and in turn Sharer called head of Pittsburgh missing persons unit Capt. Theresa Rocco and Michael's father Maurice Rosenblum. Sharer, with Rocco and Maurice traveled to Baldwin to confront Baldwin police chief and ultimate brain-dead incel Aldo Gaburri. Gaburri happens to be one of the most careless, pathetic, and idiotic people to ever live in Pennsylvania, and his family should be ashamed to share a name with him.

    Gaburri insisted that the Baldwin police did write a letter to Sharer and mailed it, but that it must've "burned in a mailbox fire". What a utterly fucking stupid excuse to come up with; not even believable whatsoever, and there was absolutely no proof of a mailbox fire in the area? He could've said it got lost during transit but I think he was dropped onto his head as a child, such a colorful imagination to try and reassure a concerned father of an unreported and uncommon mailbox fire. Maurice Rosenblum never once believed the mailbox fire shtick either how, and even when presenting Sharer with a copy of their written letter they claim to have sent before, she genuinely was seeing that letter for the first time and it's speculated that the letter was quickly written up on the spot and dated it back to the day they impounded the car. There was not much that any of them could do besides search the wooded area along River Road where Sharer's car driven by Rosenblum was found and towed from which was near a ravine. When fellow Baldwin officer Skippy Dobson asked Chief Gaburri if they should investigate further down the stream or perhaps the south side of the road around the Forty Acres Woods, which are now known as the Hays Woods, Gaburri denied them permission to do so and instructed them to continue searching the small area where the car itself was found.

    A robbery at a Baldwin drugstore occurred around the time of the days of searching for Michael Rosenblum's body. Chief Gaburri called Capt. Rocco to inform her that the search should be coming to an end as a facial composite sketch of the burglar matched that of Michael's, but Rocco immediately found this to be implausible; not possible at all. Rocco among others also noted that the composite sketch was almost equally identical to the photograph of Michael that was printed onto missing person fliers. It is still not known who even drew the composite sketch, but shockingly enough the Baldwin police department put out a warrant for Michael's arrest even though he was currently listed as a missing person. And you're thinking what I'm thinking, why did they put a warrant out for his arrest if they assumingly know for a fact he's dead? Easy answer: It's just more of a way to hide the fact that they're covering up his death by these many antics of trying to make it seem like he's alive and out there committing crimes. Michael's mom and dad (Maurice) know Michael's behaviors and his outlook on life and all of these claims were extremely out of Character for Michael. The Baldwin police department terminated the warrant against Michael "out of respect for the parents", but really I think they were like, "Oh, this is causing a separate issue on the current issue so we'll let this go, plus we killed him anyways."

    Fast forward six whole years, Maurice Rosenblum receives an anonymous letter telling him to contact the dispatcher who was working the day of Michael's disappearance, Margaret Haslett. Haslett had since moved away from Baldwin, Pennsylvania to Lakeville, Massachusetts, but Maurice wasted no time and drove straight there. She was very open to talk, and explained to Maurice that two or three months after the car was impounded, chief Gaburri instructed a letter to be written up to Lisa Sharer and backdate it to February 17th, to make it seem like it was a copy of the original letter, even though as many suspected, it was the original letter. The department's county clerk confirmed Haslett's story as true, and told Maurice that Gaburri was in a fit of rage when they got a call about Sharer's car at the impound lot three months after Michael's disappearance.

    Why would any normal human being come up these claims if they are fake? Two separate co-workers, not friends, but co-workers corroborated each others stories with tremendously scandalous claims and there's more than enough proof that something incredibly strange was going on. This story doesn't necessarily end very happily, but Michael's bones were found in the woods in the area where the car was found in 1992, further down the ravine where Gaburri told people not look. Found by a hiker, the bones were called in and due to a unique sinus print, it was determined that the bones were for sure Michael Rosenblum's. Maurice has already legally declared Michael dead in 1989 after a bone fragment was found in the woods in 1988 that was always assumed to be that of Michael's. 

    This case just baffles me to no end, and I've told just about everyone I know about it because it's just that interesting. Why would a police station not do better to make themselves look incredibly good and not incredibly terrible and stupid. To me, there's no way the Baldwin police didn't kill Michael Rosenblum in 1980. Like I said, there's too many damn signs that point it to being a crime caused and covered up by an entire police station.