Lawyer: Ex-Cop, Killed by Wife, Was a "Very Sick Man"

2008_12_sheehdef.jpgEarlier this year, a woman confessed to shooting her retired cop husband in their Howard Beach home. Barbara Sheehan later claimed self-defense, saying Raymond Sheehan had abused her (neighbors and relatives say she had been abused; a neighbor even clapped for her when she was apprehended). Now her defense lawyer makes some much more detailed and dramatic accusations.

Lawyer Michael Dowd said Sheehan allegedly cross-dressed in "skimpy outfits"—like this "Hottie Police" outfit (pictured)—and would seek "the comfort of transvestites," which would then make him "extremely violent." Dowd explained, "They seemed to increase and send him into a rage and the obvious evidence indicates that here was a person engaged in self-loathing, remorse and Irish Catholic sense of guilt. There's no question his violence preceded any of his out of the mainstream sexual activities, but it seems these activities exacerbated to some degree what was already going on."

Dowd says the prosecutors have not turned over Raymond Sheehan's hard drive, which he says contains emails between the retired sergeant and "transvestites consorts." (Prosecutors say the hard drive turned up "gibberish.") The lawyer added, "We're not seeking this to defame him. I could care less about his sexual preferences. What we do care about is if you're doing this and coming back in a rage and taking it out on my client. Then it becomes material. We want that evidence."

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So this is how Law and Order episodes are born.

Why didn't he do what other closeted Irish Catholic gays who become insane from religious guilt do and just commit suicide years ago instead of making this poor woman's life miserable. Oh yeah, I forgot suicide is also one of those bible things that causes a catch 22. Too bad she had to put up with him all those years until retirement.

"Feminist theorist Marilyn Frye argues that misogyny is phallogocentric and homoerotic at its root. In Politics of Reality, Fyre analyzes the alleged misogyny characteristic of the fiction and Christian apologetics of C.S. Lewis. Frye argues that such misogyny privileges the masculine as a subject of erotic attention. She compares the misogyny characteristic of Lewis' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which share the same quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women."

Poor wife! My heart goes out to her

Irish Catholics: one of the few ethnic groups that are still fair game in the P.C. world.

The outfit is quite nice. It brings out the color in his eyes.

And this guy was out there protecting us from the bad guys?

Hard to believe a retired cop could fit them purtee little things around his "big business". And I wonder if he's any relation to Cardinal Sheehan? Does he have family in Baltimore? Do they know he buys his crabs from those dirty people in the street?

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