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Investigative Reporter. More than 40 years working in the daily trenches of New York TV News. 24 Emmys, two Edward R. Murrows, Peabody awards

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THREE YEARS LATER, CESAR PINA FINALLY ADMITTED IT IN COURT. 🚨

He pleaded guilty to defrauding real estate investors, conspiring to launder drug money, and bribery.

I’ve been covering this case since 2023. Investigative reporter @sarahwallacereports was inside the courtroom and joined me to break down exactly what happened and what comes next.

Comment PINA for the FULL interview. 👇🏾

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It was a great night for WNBC! #nyemmy wins for @andrewsiff4ny, @jlaub40 (his first), @chrisgloriosonews, @melissarusso4ny, @tedgreenbergnbc (x2), and especially @sarahwallacereports and I, bringing home another pair. It’s an honor to be nominated, but it’s way more fun to win! @ny.emmys #nbc4ny #nyemmyawards #emmywinner @nyemmyawards

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What the hell does it take to get a New York investigative reporter to look at the court records behind Resenting Joy?

I’m Sean Coffin, Joy Mangano’s former son-in-law. I’ve contacted pretty much every newspaper in New York about my divorce and custody battle. I’ve offered court transcripts, documents and timelines so nobody has to take my word for what happened.

Some of those same reporters watch my videos and follow my Substack, but I can barely get a response. Now my memoir is banned, and I’m still sitting here trying to get someone to look into the story I wrote about.

Ask me the uncomfortable questions. Check what I’ve said against the records and ask the other people involved for their answers. I’d rather have that conversation than keep sending emails wondering whether anyone even opened them. It’s exhausting having to beg someone to investigate something I’ve spent years living through.

Who in New York or on Long Island would actually dig into this? Tag them or send them this video.

#ResentingJoy #JoyMangano #InvestigativeJournalism #BookBan #FreeSpeech

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I wrote Resenting Joy because I got tired of watching other people rewrite my life while I stayed quiet.

Now they’re fighting to have the book taken down.

I’m still waiting for the final judgment. Until it comes, I’m putting the story, the documents and the receipts on Substack so people can read them for themselves.

The truth is in the book. For now, you can find it here:

resentingjoy.substack.com

They’ve had years to tell their version.

This is mine.

#ResentingJoy #TheReclaim #BannedBooks #FreeSpeech #ihaveasecret

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I’ve never fully explained this part.

Before my divorce was even filed, Joy Mangano had already hired Steve Stanulis in connection with allegations involving drugs and trafficking.

By November 2022, David Mejias was using Stanulis’ material in filings that sought to remove my overnights, require supervision, and severely restrict my time with my boys.

Then in February 2023, they hired Stanulis again.

Same investigator.

Another affidavit.

More allegations.

I can understand someone saying they trusted bad information the first time.

What I can’t understand is going back to the same source again.

From where I stood, this didn’t feel like people being fooled. It felt like people being used to build and reinforce a narrative that had already been chosen.

And I was the one living with the consequences.

No overnights.

Supervision.

Less time with my sons.

Not just court papers.

Bedtime. Mornings. Weekends. Being their dad without someone standing over me.

I’m releasing the second affidavit next.

Read it for yourself.

Then ask the same question I’ve been asking:

If the first time was bad information, why did they go back for more?

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In 2015 , after 30 years at Eyewitness News my office roommate @sarahwallacereports moved out and in with the folks at our rival station Channel 4. She brought her unique investigative tenacity to their viewers for the next 11 years. Last week this fierce reporter announced her position was being “eliminated due to financial decisions and a changing media landscape “ . Sarah thanked her station and exited with such grace in the face of unexpected breaking news. It is a class act to be lauded BUT since you’re the G.O.A.T I know you won’t let Rocks in the road force you to drop the 🎤 for good. Not when people (I hope) still value the actual journalism you consistently delivered : Hard-hitting, rock-turning, speaking-truth-to-power accountability, giving voice-to-the-silenced kind of stories . It’s more important than ever before to get fully developed, well researched un-biased, unafraid story-telling, NOT the insipid bits masquerading as news ! I look forward to seeing where THE Sarah Wallace winds up next - (I’ll leave the earrings in your new cup Sarah ! )

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Since 2021, every summer I move into New York and New Jersey to work on Richard Cottingham “Torso Serial Killer” suspected murder cold cases from 1963 to 1980 with police and in face-to-face bedside visits with Cottingham in the prison hospital ward in South Woods State Prison.

Summer really comes to an end with Labor Day, late this year in the second week of September. I’m already in Toronto “home from wars.”

It's been a productive year so far.

This year in January, I assisted in my 11th Cottingham cold case closure (and his 20th and earliest confirmed murder), with Fair Lawn PD in New Jersey resolving the 1965 cold case murder of 18-year-old student nurse Alys Eberhardt by Cottingham. He was 18 at the time and 79 when he finally confessed to the murder on Christmas Eve 2025, just in time for Alys’s last surviving sister to be notified. She is in her eighties.

With the help of colleagues May Binon @mayzeeish & Christine Clough @criminaljusticechris, this summer I identified and brought on board families of three Richard Cottingham victims in New York and New Jersey: Dorothy Anderson (1973), Gaylor Alexander (1977), and Yvette Valentin (1980).

Nassau County PD opened a homicide investigation into the death of Dorothy Anderson, whose body was found in 1973 in the same creek where two other Cottingham victims were found, but her death had been declared “CUPI” (Circumstances Undetermined Pending Investigation).

Finally, after a four-year campaign since Cottingham wrote to me in February 2022 describing his murder of Lisa Thomas in 1974 in Nanuet, Rockland County, NY, a new team of detectives there have vigorously re-activated their investigation into that case and Cottingham’s emails.

It ain't like Law & Order on TV, I’ll tell you that much.

Links to the New York-New Jersey PD Cold Case Open Data Portal https://www.nynjpd.org/

And the Richard Cottingham Torso Serial Killer Project website https://richardcottingham.org/

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#petervronsky #serialkillers #truecrimejunkie #truecrimecommunity #unsolved Since 2021, every summer I move into New York and New Jersey to work on Richard Cottingham “Torso Serial Killer” suspected murder cold cases from 1963 to 1980 with police and in face-to-face bedside visits with Cottingham in the prison hospital ward in South Woods State Prison. Summer really comes to an end with Labor Day, late this year in the second week of September. I’m already in Toronto “home from wars.” It's been a productive year so far. This year in January, I assisted in my 11th Cottingham cold case closure (and his 20th and earliest confirmed murder), with Fair Lawn PD in New Jersey resolving the 1965 cold case murder of 18-year-old student nurse Alys Eberhardt by Cottingham. He was 18 at the time and 79 when he finally confessed to the murder on Christmas Eve 2025, just in time for Alys’s last surviving sister to be notified. She is in her eighties. With the help of colleagues May Binon @mayzeeish & Christine Clough @criminaljusticechris, this summer I identified and brought on board families of three Richard Cottingham victims in New York and New Jersey: Dorothy Anderson (1973), Gaylor Alexander (1977), and Yvette Valentin (1980). Nassau County PD opened a homicide investigation into the death of Dorothy Anderson, whose body was found in 1973 in the same creek where two other Cottingham victims were found, but her death had been declared “CUPI” (Circumstances Undetermined Pending Investigation). Finally, after a four-year campaign since Cottingham wrote to me in February 2022 describing his murder of Lisa Thomas in 1974 in Nanuet, Rockland County, NY, a new team of detectives there have vigorously re-activated their investigation into that case and Cottingham’s emails. It ain't like Law & Order on TV, I’ll tell you that much. Links to the New York-New Jersey PD Cold Case Open Data Portal https://www.nynjpd.org/ And the Richard Cottingham Torso Serial Killer Project website https://richardcottingham.org/ #petervronsky #serialkillers #truecrimejunkie #truecrimecommunity #unsolved

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She blessed us with decades of her presence on the airwaves and now on to more blessings for what comes next. We love you Kaity Tong! It was an honor to be your colleague and even more of a blessing to call you friend. And as you can see from the turnout at your retirement celebration, I’m not the only one who holds you in the highest esteem. Now, go get your blessing! ❤️

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As she leaves WNBC, it’s tough to sum up all the adventures I’ve had with @sarahwallace4ny the past 10 years. We’ve done hundreds of stories together, traveled to Colorado for ‘The Price of Pot’, Missouri searching for pedophile priests, Los Angeles for wildfires, Turks and Caicos twice for a murder mystery, Florida for a bodyless head, Atlanta for Trump getting his mug shot taken, D.C. for inauguration, and more then a few times to prison. We did some of the best work of my career and together won 5 Emmy’s (so far) and had a tremendous amount of fun every day. I know you still have a lot of great stories to tell. #nbc4ny #behindthescenes #tv news #reel

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Several men from Long Island and New Jersey were among the dozen charged with orchestrating and participating in a college cocaine pipeline behind fraternity house doors.

In all, 14 people were charged in the drug operation with all but one being Penn State University students at or around the time of the alleged conduct. At least four of those charged are current students.

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Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded guilty Friday to federal stalking charges, potentially capping a saga that captivated the public and ignited fiery national debate over the insurance industry.

Thompson’s family was in court for the guilty plea. It was the first time any of the CEO’s relatives were in the same room with the man accused of gunning down their loved one. Thompson’s mother glared at him.

Before accepting the plea, Mangione admitted to killing Thompson, saying, “On the morning of Dec 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan in his back. I understood my actions would place him in fear of death and bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

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A lawsuit accusing the Perth Amboy Police Department of using excessive force is suddenly settled right before it was set to go to trial, but the debate continues over tactics and training.

Police bodycam videos were key to this case — videos that now won’t be shown in court. A source shared multiple videos with the News 4 I-Team.

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