Since the publication of the hardcover edition of this book there have been some significant new developments. In July 2006 my friend and partner Jim Harmon, the prosecuting Assistant

District Attorney in the trial of Lewis 17X Dupree, wrote a letter to current New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. The letter is reproduced in full on the following pages; in essence, it urged Commissioner Kelly to re-open the case to resolve several unanswered questions.

The letter was articulate, to the point … and effective!

On October 8, 2006, the New York Post’s Philip Messing revealed that the NYPD was re-opening its investigation of the case. The Post quoted Commissioner Kelly as saying, “There is a feeling in certain quarters that there are a lot of unanswered questions and if we can answer those questions, we have an obligation to do that.” Kelly also told Messing that he had assigned members of the NYPD’s Major Case Squad to the case.

With Phil Cardillo’s murder and the circumstances surrounding the mosque incident once again part of an active investigation, I am constrained in what I can say about the matter, even though I am naturally more than interested in following its progress. But I can mention that both Jim Harmon and I have been interviewed multiple times by the detectives assigned to the

case and we both have high hopes for a final, satisfactory closure to the longest-running unsolved murder of a New York City patrolman. My other hope is that the closure of the case and justice for Phil Cardillo will make it to the silver screen. I’ve been in and around the movie business for long enough to know how long it can take for any story to make it through the moviemaking process, but rights to the book have been acquired by a successful Hollywood writer and producer. I wish him every success in bringing Circle Of Six to a theater near you!

– Randy Jurgensen, Summer 2007