Talk about dying in vain.
Paul Bilodeau, 45-year-old City Hall construction site consultant, evidently did.
He was murdered so slickly, so illogically in Fox Hills 3½ years ago on the blackened, fenced-off property where Fire Station No. 3 was being built, that no one else in the media ever has paid attention to the fate of his alleged killer, Myron DeShun Grant.
Outside of the Bilodeau family, the Grant family and this newspaper, I know of only one other chap who cares about the case.
The person who put Mr. Grant up to pulling the trigger, if Mr. Grant did the deed.
He whom I believe hatched and planned the crime may be chuckling this afternoon for two reasons:
• Over the seeming but unprovable slender approach of prosecutors, and
• Ain’t nobody watching except the relatives.
Poof. Mr. Bilodeau is gone. Who cares?
A smart gentleman of my acquaintance asked this afternoon:
“If you are the only media following this case to trial (tentatively scheduled to start on Monday, July 9), is the prosecution motivated to work as hard as they would be when everybody is watching?”
Splendid question.
A more compelling one is:
Why, in all of the world, would Mr. Grant, even if he is a practicing criminal, pick out Mr. Bilodeau to murder on the Friday night of Jan. 2, 2009, while Mr. B, typical of his industriousness, was working in the main construction trailer behind a fence that figured to blot a killer’s view?
Unless Mr. Grant furtively has carried on an underground career of stealthily inspecting big, ol’ industrial buildings, on big, ol’ lonely and remote boulevards, he either wasn’t there or was sent there.
Except for joy-killing, what possibly could have been his motive – if not put up to it?
It was not robbery, unless the strategy was to lighten Mr. Bilodeau’s wallet by several dollars, leaving the rest in plain sight to baffle unimaginative investigators.
And the killer sure didn’t have to sprint from the scene. No one was near to see or hear or scare him.
The murder was committed around 8, meaning he would have missed O’Reilly’s show. Eight probably was too early for the killer to rush home to bed.
Just asking.
