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A Murder On Orchard Street

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A Murder On Orchard Street

ABC News

True Crime

4.14K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Burke, Andrew O'Brien.

0:06.3

Detective Kenny Sylvia stood in a small room at the 7th precinct with faded blue walls

0:11.7

and a lone table.

0:13.9

He was taking photographs of what Berkho Brian had on him the moment he was murdered.

0:19.2

A pair of jeans, his college ID, a pair of new-balanced sneakers, tattered and worn.

0:24.3

Especially with a homicide, you can't help but personalize this thing.

0:28.3

Through the investigation I find out who he is, I find out about his family, I speak to him,

0:34.2

and he becomes known to me, he becomes known to me as a person, I've never known him

0:36.9

in life the first time I've made him ever met and he's dead.

0:41.0

From ABC News, I'm Christina Kiley.

0:44.1

This is a murder on Orchard Street.

0:54.3

Burke was very vibrant, really devoted to his family.

1:08.4

Burke's sister Rory was just 23 years old when Burke died.

1:12.8

She and her brother were best friends.

1:15.9

And he was kind of in the clectic soul, you know, he liked to do a lot of things.

1:20.0

He was from the city that loved the woods, he was the short, stacky, red-headed guy with

1:25.2

a lot of personality and a lot of wit.

1:28.3

Of all people, this person who was such an icon or strength and all that it means to

1:35.7

just be like alive and bright and charismatic is the one that is laying there inside of

1:43.5

Burke.

1:51.5

This was the second morning after Berkobrion was killed.

1:55.3

His friend, Forest Blody, was sitting in jail.

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