August 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Amy and T.J. just happen to be a mile from the Montauk marina where 33 year old Martha Nolan-O’Slattara was mysteriously found dead on a boat this week. Police have released very little information, but local reporters here describe eyewitness accounts of a man with Nolan earlier in the day and screaming coming from the boat they were on that night.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, the folks did It's Thursday, August seventh, and there's
a mystery in Montalk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But is it a murder mystery?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
That is what the public wants to know and what
police have been trying to find out this week. And
welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ and Robes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The headlines.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Would grab attention based on just I mean some almost selacious,
salacious and made for TV and made for headline facts.
A young white, blonde woman found dead on a boat
at an exclusive club in one of the most exclusive,
(00:48):
celebrity and wealth driven towns in America.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, that's gonna make headlines.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That is going to make headlines anywhere. And add to
the fact that she's this beautiful fashion design and her
socialite living in Manhattan. She came to the United States
from Ireland. She has this beautiful story. Her best friend
and business partner posted on social media today talking about
(01:13):
how much more they had to do and how much
more light they had to live and how brightly her
light shined while she was here.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So yes, she was apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Beloved and she was on her way up. She had
just gotten her fashion designs at an exclusive hotel here
in Montalk, Gurney's. So she had just posted that she
had made it and she was excited about her future.
So yeah, this is stuff movies are made of, and
this is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Something many of you have heard about already, certainly has
been making the rounds this week. Now, if you notice,
there might be some background noise or maybe little wind
where I am sitting and recording. We have been doing
our podcast this week from outside of Manhattan. We decided
to get away for the week a working bike. But
(02:01):
where we sit now and where we have been sitting
this week, Robes, we didn't completely reveal that where we
sit is two point six miles away from where that
young lady's body was found. This week we have been
in Montalk and Robes, we got here a day or
two before her body was found. And this is all
(02:24):
this town has been buzzing about.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's all over the local newspapers, as you might imagine,
and there are news reporters strolling the main street here
talking to folks who are vacationing here, folks who live
here about their level of concern that there could potentially
be a murderer on the loose. It's unclear how this
young woman died, but it is mysterious and police aren't
(02:47):
giving many answers, which is causing more concern here in
this area.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean, we should take.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And yes, I know some of the headlines and the
pictures of the young woman that they're being shown in
the industry she was in and she lived in Manhattan,
and look at where this happened and all that. But
let's be clear here. When the public knows someone has died,
and we don't know how that person died, and that's
the possibility that somebody is roaming the streets who did
(03:15):
this to that person. Okay, this is a heightened interest
and almost alert and alarm, and maybe the public needs
to be alerted to a threat possibly to them. So
this is beyond just some salacious story. This is a
real concern for the folks here.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, this is a huge for folks who don't know
what Montalk is like. This is a huge vacationing spot
for a lot of folks who live in Manhattan or
who live in the Northeast. And there is a lot
of wealth here. There are a lot of families here.
It's a very quiet. It used to be a fisher
like a fisherman's village basically, but it's just slightly east
(03:53):
of what proper Hamptons are, So if you're kind of
even trying to escape the Hamptons, people come to Montalk.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It's you're literally at.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
The end and at the last, the last stop on
Long Island, basically before you hit the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And it is beautiful, and it is quiet, and it
is sleepy, and yes, there it is overwhelmed with the money.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You feel it, you sense it, you see it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We've been looking at all the luxury vehicles. Every other
vehicle is some incredible model of some vintage.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You feel all that you see it, and the homes
are gorgeous, but it also has a charm and still
a quiet charm, and it's laid back in a bunch
of ways that you see nothing but families, kids running around,
happy and so it yes, all that's here, but it
doesn't always feel annoying. If you will something as random
as since we've been here this week, we had dinner
(04:50):
with literally an avenger sitting next to us, and then
we were out on town and an SNL member was.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Where we were.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's just random. Nobody was in the face taking pictures.
They were being bothered at all. It's just kind of
quiet and sleepy like that for folks if you just
heard of the Hamptons or just heard about Montague. I
didn't know about it until I moved to New York
and started coming up here. I get it now, but
it is it's wonderful and to hear that a young
woman died mysteriously. This was on Monday. Here we are
(05:17):
at the end of the week. Ropes and not a
whole lot of answers.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's right, And there are still a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We as were going through all the latest information that's
out there. It's hard to piece it all together, and
there are some glaring questions about what actually happened. We
know on Monday night, around midnight, a man called nine
one one and said there was a body on a
boat docked in Montalk at the yacht club there. And
(05:45):
apparently when paramedics came to the boat, there were two
bystanders trying to perform or performing CPR on her, trying
to revive her. And we know that much is true
from police reports.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, but still she ended up being pronounced dead on
the scene. So when the professionals got there, she was
too far gone at that point to even try to save,
so she was pronounced dead on the scene. Now we
did get the identity of the young lady we've been
talking about, thirty three years old, Martha Nolan o'slatterer, again
originally from Ireland, but she lived in Manhattan. She was
(06:20):
a designer, had a company called East by East, a
swimwear company I think i'm describing, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
A designer bikini company.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And she had an exhibition here in Montauk or at
least a pop up store in the famous Gurney's Hotel,
and that was kind of a side hustlener. She was
a marketing director as well in Manhattan. So but she
was doing really well and her business was flourishing. Now
we did get the preliminary results from an autop here
from a medical exemitor, and they said there's no cause
(06:50):
of death yet, but there were no initial signs of violence. However,
the homicide squad is investigating. They were there on the
scene all day Tuesday, and I believe they finally left
Wednesday morning, but notably, homicide detectives were on the scene
and again no official cause of death yet.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So in hearing what those are just the facts. There's
a bunch of stuff. We don't know what robes you
dug into and I started looking to after you pointed
out to me that so many of the local papers
and the local reporters have been talking to the locals, correct,
and they've talked to some of the boaters. But some
of the reports out there about what potentially happened that
(07:30):
night and what other people saw leave you scratching your
head about exactly what's going on, because the first question, Okay,
she's found on this boat. She was not by herself
at some point, she was with somebody. It's my first question,
who was she with? Whose boat was it?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yes, the boat was called Ripple. We know that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
We don't know or at least we haven't been able
to find out much about the boat owner. However, there
are people who have talked to again those local reporters,
who said they saw this young woman, Martha with a
man earlier that day on Monday partying, correct, And they
got onto another boat, went out into the ocean, then
came back and got back on the Ripple and continued
(08:08):
to party. So that was according to eyewitness reports. Now
there are other reports that later in the evening. Again,
a lot of folks live on their boats. Folks on
the boats heard screaming and door banging coming from the
ripple boat.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They were reporting this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And again according to the local papers here who again
know the community and know the people, the others there
that were at the dock that night reported a man
running up and down the dock trying to get help,
like screaming and banging, even throwing things, trying to get
someone's attention to get help.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
He had a pull or something he took off of
the dock and was banging it. According to folks who
heard him.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Their reports was that he was desperate and several people
reported hearing this screaming, so he was desperate. Now, if
we pieced together, this seems like he was trying to
get help for the young lady. The question then becomes, well,
where is he? Who is this guy or police already
talking to him or is he missing?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And is there a reason why the police haven't mentioned him.
So all of this, again is from folks who were
on the dock that night. Police have not said any
of this. Police haven't mentioned that she was found with
a man. Police haven't mentioned who the owner of the
boat was, and they haven't mentioned even interviewing or.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Talking to anyone, So that's if they had. If he
had been.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
There, if they had spoken to him, it seems as
though they would have mentioned it and said he was
cleared as a person of interest, or at least acknowledged
his presence.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But he could have also if they're talking to him,
filled in a lot of blinks that we have right now,
and wouldn't they have passed those along to a concerned
public right now.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To make sure that the public in this very affluent
area would feel safe going out with their children.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Knowing that there was not a killer on the loose.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You'd think they would have a lot of motivation to
do so if they were able to do so.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So those are just a couple of the many questions
floating around and robes. We can speak to this because
we've been here all week in Montauk. Again, nothing for
the most part, has changed. The community is going on.
People are still going surfing, and they're having their lunches
and they're doing their shopping. Fine, But everywhere you go
(10:31):
people are talking about this. And this happened to us
last night. We're out a guy that is not in
our group, not in our party. He is several feet
away that you wouldn't think he was within earshot, but Ropes,
he just heard a slight mention of us talking about
this in our group.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He jumped right in.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yep, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So people are this is the talk of the town truly,
and we were actually in a neighboring area, sag Harbor.
So this is spread all throughout the Hamptons. Everyone is
a buzz and concerned and asking who knows what because
people don't I don't have answers. And when police don't
give you the information that you're hoping to hear, people
tend to fill in the blanks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And that's a lot about what's been going on.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But yeah, I try to give I'm trying to give
the best sense of this community as I can. I
don't think my parents in West Memphis would know. I
think people in other parts of the country don't necessarily
understand what we're talking about when we're talking about this area.
This stuff just doesn't happen here. They've had I think
of twenty nineteen, maybe in two thousand and one, like
(11:32):
some high profile murders that.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Really rock to the area. If you will.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
But it's just something like this just doesn't happen. And
this area is sweet. It is as family oriented and friendly.
We talk about the money and the influence and all
that that's here, but it's a sleepy little surfer town.
And you see folks that they've been here for years,
just in the jeeps and they got the surfboard. Is
(11:56):
just a quiet it's a cool community.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's just is and something like this it's scared the
hell out of them.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's that's so true. And so many of the questions
that are out there. The number one I think that
we have is who was she with? And it's so
bizarre to me that we haven't gotten that answer. And
is the same guy who she was with, the same
guy who was yelling for help?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, see I was about to speculate. I was gonna
assume it has to be the same guy, but who
We have no idea what happened, what could the causes
have be have been? And if there was a cause
that was inflicted by another human, at least physically, even
through suffocation, they can see they can see physical signs
of that pretty quickly, can.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Ry right and drowning as well. Correct.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Can you not figure that out pretty quickly that they eat, Yes,
you could tell. So then people have speculated that could
this be something to do with drugs, a drug overdose,
and if maybe he was the one who gave her
the drugs or supplied the drugs to her. Maybe he
was afraid he was going to be implicated and so
he wanted to get help for her, but he didn't
want to stick around to be arrested.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And it's just not likely that a thirty three year
old holy woman died of naturally causes. Natural causes in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Vote possible, but yes, highly unlikely.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's not likely.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So we talked about some of the questions that we have,
but one of the biggest still has not been answered,
and it might be the question that's on your mind
right now. All right, folks, we continue now with a
(13:35):
mystery in Montalk that people are trying to figure out
whether or not it is a murder mystery. You might
hear the wind blowing, some birds chirping, some car horns
in the background, maybe a plane flying overhead. Yes, Robot
and I happened to be in Montalk this week, just
decided to take time with the family happened to be
here and been here all week, and sure enough, after
a couple of nights, we got this news about this
young lady found dead on a boat here in Montalk.
(13:57):
We talk roads about so many of the questions, and
I guess we're one of the big ones you've been having.
It's a lot of questions, But why aren't police saying
more like why wouldn't they give more information? Oftentimes, in
our experience, sometimes police withhold information because they don't want
to sacrifice anything in their possible investigation, because there might
(14:21):
be still somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Out there right and they want to be able to
use that information for trial if they're going to prosecute
that only the killer himself would know, so they don't
want to do anything to somehow make their legal prosecution
impacted at all by information they disseminated. So, yes, we
understand why they withhold some information, but to not say
(14:43):
anything about where the investigation stands, whether or not people
need to be on the lookout for some man who
was seen with her, whether or not there's any indication
that someone a killer could be on the loose, or
even more understandably, why they wouldn't and say Hey, we
don't believe this is suspicious. People don't need to be concerned.
(15:04):
Please go about your business. You don't need to be
on alert. You don't need to be looking for anyone.
You don't need to be concerned. So when there's zero information,
that's what's so strange. Why aren't they giving us at
least some indication that there is someone to be looking for?
Or hey, you guys can just go about your merry days,
enjoy your vacations, and don't sweat this.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Because sometimes police will do that. They will tell you say, hey,
we don't haven't figured this whole thing out. We can
tell you there's not a continued and ongoing threat to
the community.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Correct, and fine, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Get some answers later. Why not give that? I don't know,
and they must have their reasons, and I want to
give them the benefit of.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The doubt of course on that. But it's adding to
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So I am wondering how many other people are wondering
and listening at a time where there is not trust
of media, of authority, of affluence, all those things are
coming together on the story here in montak Are we
should we no, No, I don't think we should.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I am cynical as anybody on some things, but I
think we have to have some level of trust in
these institutions. So can you still, though, blame somebody for
stopping anything? Await a minute, is something else going on?
Is something else trying to be a lack of transparency
leads to conspiracy theories, and when you have all these
things coming together here, you're going to lead to people thinking, well,
(16:30):
they're covering something up.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And even Ava and Anna's dad, who lives in South
Carolina called.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Them was it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
As soon as he's heard the news that a young
woman had been murdered in Montalk, he knew that's where
Ava and Anelice were. He called them both and was
concerned and worried and asking questions and saying, how close
are you guys to this?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are you being on the lookout? Are you being careful?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And they were like, Dad, Dad, it was probably just
an isolated event. And he was very concerned and kept saying,
you know what, we don't know that. So you know
someone thatands of miles aways reading about this and thinking
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And that's understandable. When there's not a lot of information.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because when I say there might be a killer on
the loose right now in Montalk, the police could immediately
say no, TJ. There's no reason for us to think
that based on this death.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
They won't.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They haven't said that yet.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And that in and of itself is slightly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So this mystery continues for now. But at the I mean,
at the center of it right now, there's a family
maybe I guess in Ireland were from. There are friends
and folks that love her. In Manhattan, they say she
frequented this area, So there are people here I'm sure
who know and love her and are going to miss her.
(17:50):
But a young woman is dead right now and we
don't know why, and that's a damn shame. No matter
what color her eyes, her hair, her skin are, and
on what size boat, in what community she was found in,
that's a damn shame.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And we're going to continue to just keep this situation monitored.
We'll obviously jump back on if we hear anything or
see anything actually from where we are nearby. But we
appreciate you listening to us as always, and hope you're
having a wonderful day. Today, I'm Amy Roboch alongside my
partner t J.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Holmes. We'll see as soon
Hey, the folks did It's Thursday, August seventh, and there's
a mystery in Montalk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But is it a murder mystery?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
That is what the public wants to know and what
police have been trying to find out this week. And
welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ and Robes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The headlines.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Would grab attention based on just I mean some almost selacious,
salacious and made for TV and made for headline facts.
A young white, blonde woman found dead on a boat
at an exclusive club in one of the most exclusive,
(00:48):
celebrity and wealth driven towns in America.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, that's gonna make headlines.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That is going to make headlines anywhere. And add to
the fact that she's this beautiful fashion design and her
socialite living in Manhattan. She came to the United States
from Ireland. She has this beautiful story. Her best friend
and business partner posted on social media today talking about
(01:13):
how much more they had to do and how much
more light they had to live and how brightly her
light shined while she was here.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So yes, she was apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Beloved and she was on her way up. She had
just gotten her fashion designs at an exclusive hotel here
in Montalk, Gurney's. So she had just posted that she
had made it and she was excited about her future.
So yeah, this is stuff movies are made of, and
this is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Something many of you have heard about already, certainly has
been making the rounds this week. Now, if you notice,
there might be some background noise or maybe little wind
where I am sitting and recording. We have been doing
our podcast this week from outside of Manhattan. We decided
to get away for the week a working bike. But
(02:01):
where we sit now and where we have been sitting
this week, Robes, we didn't completely reveal that where we
sit is two point six miles away from where that
young lady's body was found. This week we have been
in Montalk and Robes, we got here a day or
two before her body was found. And this is all
(02:24):
this town has been buzzing about.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's all over the local newspapers, as you might imagine,
and there are news reporters strolling the main street here
talking to folks who are vacationing here, folks who live
here about their level of concern that there could potentially
be a murderer on the loose. It's unclear how this
young woman died, but it is mysterious and police aren't
(02:47):
giving many answers, which is causing more concern here in
this area.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean, we should take.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And yes, I know some of the headlines and the
pictures of the young woman that they're being shown in
the industry she was in and she lived in Manhattan,
and look at where this happened and all that. But
let's be clear here. When the public knows someone has died,
and we don't know how that person died, and that's
the possibility that somebody is roaming the streets who did
(03:15):
this to that person. Okay, this is a heightened interest
and almost alert and alarm, and maybe the public needs
to be alerted to a threat possibly to them. So
this is beyond just some salacious story. This is a
real concern for the folks here.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, this is a huge for folks who don't know
what Montalk is like. This is a huge vacationing spot
for a lot of folks who live in Manhattan or
who live in the Northeast. And there is a lot
of wealth here. There are a lot of families here.
It's a very quiet. It used to be a fisher
like a fisherman's village basically, but it's just slightly east
(03:53):
of what proper Hamptons are, So if you're kind of
even trying to escape the Hamptons, people come to Montalk.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
It's you're literally at.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
The end and at the last, the last stop on
Long Island, basically before you hit the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And it is beautiful, and it is quiet, and it
is sleepy, and yes, there it is overwhelmed with the money.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You feel it, you sense it, you see it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We've been looking at all the luxury vehicles. Every other
vehicle is some incredible model of some vintage.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You feel all that you see it, and the homes
are gorgeous, but it also has a charm and still
a quiet charm, and it's laid back in a bunch
of ways that you see nothing but families, kids running around,
happy and so it yes, all that's here, but it
doesn't always feel annoying. If you will something as random
as since we've been here this week, we had dinner
(04:50):
with literally an avenger sitting next to us, and then
we were out on town and an SNL member was.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Where we were.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's just random. Nobody was in the face taking pictures.
They were being bothered at all. It's just kind of
quiet and sleepy like that for folks if you just
heard of the Hamptons or just heard about Montague. I
didn't know about it until I moved to New York
and started coming up here. I get it now, but
it is it's wonderful and to hear that a young
woman died mysteriously. This was on Monday. Here we are
(05:17):
at the end of the week. Ropes and not a
whole lot of answers.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's right, And there are still a lot of questions.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We as were going through all the latest information that's
out there. It's hard to piece it all together, and
there are some glaring questions about what actually happened. We
know on Monday night, around midnight, a man called nine
one one and said there was a body on a
boat docked in Montalk at the yacht club there. And
(05:45):
apparently when paramedics came to the boat, there were two
bystanders trying to perform or performing CPR on her, trying
to revive her. And we know that much is true
from police reports.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, but still she ended up being pronounced dead on
the scene. So when the professionals got there, she was
too far gone at that point to even try to save,
so she was pronounced dead on the scene. Now we
did get the identity of the young lady we've been
talking about, thirty three years old, Martha Nolan o'slatterer, again
originally from Ireland, but she lived in Manhattan. She was
(06:20):
a designer, had a company called East by East, a
swimwear company I think i'm describing, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
A designer bikini company.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And she had an exhibition here in Montauk or at
least a pop up store in the famous Gurney's Hotel,
and that was kind of a side hustlener. She was
a marketing director as well in Manhattan. So but she
was doing really well and her business was flourishing. Now
we did get the preliminary results from an autop here
from a medical exemitor, and they said there's no cause
(06:50):
of death yet, but there were no initial signs of violence. However,
the homicide squad is investigating. They were there on the
scene all day Tuesday, and I believe they finally left
Wednesday morning, but notably, homicide detectives were on the scene
and again no official cause of death yet.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So in hearing what those are just the facts. There's
a bunch of stuff. We don't know what robes you
dug into and I started looking to after you pointed
out to me that so many of the local papers
and the local reporters have been talking to the locals, correct,
and they've talked to some of the boaters. But some
of the reports out there about what potentially happened that
(07:30):
night and what other people saw leave you scratching your
head about exactly what's going on, because the first question, Okay,
she's found on this boat. She was not by herself
at some point, she was with somebody. It's my first question,
who was she with? Whose boat was it?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yes, the boat was called Ripple. We know that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
We don't know or at least we haven't been able
to find out much about the boat owner. However, there
are people who have talked to again those local reporters,
who said they saw this young woman, Martha with a
man earlier that day on Monday partying, correct, And they
got onto another boat, went out into the ocean, then
came back and got back on the Ripple and continued
(08:08):
to party. So that was according to eyewitness reports. Now
there are other reports that later in the evening. Again,
a lot of folks live on their boats. Folks on
the boats heard screaming and door banging coming from the
ripple boat.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They were reporting this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And again according to the local papers here who again
know the community and know the people, the others there
that were at the dock that night reported a man
running up and down the dock trying to get help,
like screaming and banging, even throwing things, trying to get
someone's attention to get help.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
He had a pull or something he took off of
the dock and was banging it. According to folks who
heard him.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Their reports was that he was desperate and several people
reported hearing this screaming, so he was desperate. Now, if
we pieced together, this seems like he was trying to
get help for the young lady. The question then becomes, well,
where is he? Who is this guy or police already
talking to him or is he missing?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And is there a reason why the police haven't mentioned him.
So all of this, again is from folks who were
on the dock that night. Police have not said any
of this. Police haven't mentioned that she was found with
a man. Police haven't mentioned who the owner of the
boat was, and they haven't mentioned even interviewing or.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Talking to anyone, So that's if they had. If he
had been.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
There, if they had spoken to him, it seems as
though they would have mentioned it and said he was
cleared as a person of interest, or at least acknowledged
his presence.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But he could have also if they're talking to him,
filled in a lot of blinks that we have right now,
and wouldn't they have passed those along to a concerned
public right now.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To make sure that the public in this very affluent
area would feel safe going out with their children.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Knowing that there was not a killer on the loose.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You'd think they would have a lot of motivation to
do so if they were able to do so.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So those are just a couple of the many questions
floating around and robes. We can speak to this because
we've been here all week in Montauk. Again, nothing for
the most part, has changed. The community is going on.
People are still going surfing, and they're having their lunches
and they're doing their shopping. Fine, But everywhere you go
(10:31):
people are talking about this. And this happened to us
last night. We're out a guy that is not in
our group, not in our party. He is several feet
away that you wouldn't think he was within earshot, but Ropes,
he just heard a slight mention of us talking about
this in our group.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He jumped right in.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yep, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So people are this is the talk of the town truly,
and we were actually in a neighboring area, sag Harbor.
So this is spread all throughout the Hamptons. Everyone is
a buzz and concerned and asking who knows what because
people don't I don't have answers. And when police don't
give you the information that you're hoping to hear, people
tend to fill in the blanks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And that's a lot about what's been going on.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But yeah, I try to give I'm trying to give
the best sense of this community as I can. I
don't think my parents in West Memphis would know. I
think people in other parts of the country don't necessarily
understand what we're talking about when we're talking about this area.
This stuff just doesn't happen here. They've had I think
of twenty nineteen, maybe in two thousand and one, like
(11:32):
some high profile murders that.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Really rock to the area. If you will.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
But it's just something like this just doesn't happen. And
this area is sweet. It is as family oriented and friendly.
We talk about the money and the influence and all
that that's here, but it's a sleepy little surfer town.
And you see folks that they've been here for years,
just in the jeeps and they got the surfboard. Is
(11:56):
just a quiet it's a cool community.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's just is and something like this it's scared the
hell out of them.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's that's so true. And so many of the questions
that are out there. The number one I think that
we have is who was she with? And it's so
bizarre to me that we haven't gotten that answer. And
is the same guy who she was with, the same
guy who was yelling for help?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, see I was about to speculate. I was gonna
assume it has to be the same guy, but who
We have no idea what happened, what could the causes
have be have been? And if there was a cause
that was inflicted by another human, at least physically, even
through suffocation, they can see they can see physical signs
of that pretty quickly, can.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Ry right and drowning as well. Correct.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Can you not figure that out pretty quickly that they eat, Yes,
you could tell. So then people have speculated that could
this be something to do with drugs, a drug overdose,
and if maybe he was the one who gave her
the drugs or supplied the drugs to her. Maybe he
was afraid he was going to be implicated and so
he wanted to get help for her, but he didn't
want to stick around to be arrested.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And it's just not likely that a thirty three year
old holy woman died of naturally causes. Natural causes in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Vote possible, but yes, highly unlikely.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's not likely.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So we talked about some of the questions that we have,
but one of the biggest still has not been answered,
and it might be the question that's on your mind
right now. All right, folks, we continue now with a
(13:35):
mystery in Montalk that people are trying to figure out
whether or not it is a murder mystery. You might
hear the wind blowing, some birds chirping, some car horns
in the background, maybe a plane flying overhead. Yes, Robot
and I happened to be in Montalk this week, just
decided to take time with the family happened to be
here and been here all week, and sure enough, after
a couple of nights, we got this news about this
young lady found dead on a boat here in Montalk.
(13:57):
We talk roads about so many of the questions, and
I guess we're one of the big ones you've been having.
It's a lot of questions, But why aren't police saying
more like why wouldn't they give more information? Oftentimes, in
our experience, sometimes police withhold information because they don't want
to sacrifice anything in their possible investigation, because there might
(14:21):
be still somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Out there right and they want to be able to
use that information for trial if they're going to prosecute
that only the killer himself would know, so they don't
want to do anything to somehow make their legal prosecution
impacted at all by information they disseminated. So, yes, we
understand why they withhold some information, but to not say
(14:43):
anything about where the investigation stands, whether or not people
need to be on the lookout for some man who
was seen with her, whether or not there's any indication
that someone a killer could be on the loose, or
even more understandably, why they wouldn't and say Hey, we
don't believe this is suspicious. People don't need to be concerned.
(15:04):
Please go about your business. You don't need to be
on alert. You don't need to be looking for anyone.
You don't need to be concerned. So when there's zero information,
that's what's so strange. Why aren't they giving us at
least some indication that there is someone to be looking for?
Or hey, you guys can just go about your merry days,
enjoy your vacations, and don't sweat this.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Because sometimes police will do that. They will tell you say, hey,
we don't haven't figured this whole thing out. We can
tell you there's not a continued and ongoing threat to
the community.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Correct, and fine, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Get some answers later. Why not give that? I don't know,
and they must have their reasons, and I want to
give them the benefit of.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The doubt of course on that. But it's adding to
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So I am wondering how many other people are wondering
and listening at a time where there is not trust
of media, of authority, of affluence, all those things are
coming together on the story here in montak Are we
should we no, No, I don't think we should.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I am cynical as anybody on some things, but I
think we have to have some level of trust in
these institutions. So can you still, though, blame somebody for
stopping anything? Await a minute, is something else going on?
Is something else trying to be a lack of transparency
leads to conspiracy theories, and when you have all these
things coming together here, you're going to lead to people thinking, well,
(16:30):
they're covering something up.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And even Ava and Anna's dad, who lives in South
Carolina called.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Them was it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
As soon as he's heard the news that a young
woman had been murdered in Montalk, he knew that's where
Ava and Anelice were. He called them both and was
concerned and worried and asking questions and saying, how close
are you guys to this?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are you being on the lookout? Are you being careful?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And they were like, Dad, Dad, it was probably just
an isolated event. And he was very concerned and kept saying,
you know what, we don't know that. So you know
someone thatands of miles aways reading about this and thinking
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And that's understandable. When there's not a lot of information.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because when I say there might be a killer on
the loose right now in Montalk, the police could immediately
say no, TJ. There's no reason for us to think
that based on this death.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
They won't.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They haven't said that yet.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And that in and of itself is slightly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So this mystery continues for now. But at the I mean,
at the center of it right now, there's a family
maybe I guess in Ireland were from. There are friends
and folks that love her. In Manhattan, they say she
frequented this area, So there are people here I'm sure
who know and love her and are going to miss her.
(17:50):
But a young woman is dead right now and we
don't know why, and that's a damn shame. No matter
what color her eyes, her hair, her skin are, and
on what size boat, in what community she was found in,
that's a damn shame.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And we're going to continue to just keep this situation monitored.
We'll obviously jump back on if we hear anything or
see anything actually from where we are nearby. But we
appreciate you listening to us as always, and hope you're
having a wonderful day. Today, I'm Amy Roboch alongside my
partner t J.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Holmes. We'll see as soon
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