As Tina and Alice sat at the bar one night talking about Carmen, Tina brought up Ned. “He tried to rape me,” Tina said. “Look at this.” She pointed to her neck. “I don’t see anything,” Alice said. “Look!” It was gone now, but Tina said she’d had bruises around her neck where Ned had tried to strangle her. “I hate him.” “Everyone at the bar feels Ned did something to Carmen,” Alice told police later that day, “but no one knows for sure.” These reports of Ned getting physical with some of the females who hung around Kenney’s began filing in as the Hartford PD started digging. One man who lived across the street from Kenney’s had a story to tell that became quite common where Ned and the girls of Kenney’s were concerned. “I used to work as a bar back at Kenney’s,” the man said. “I met a guy named Ned (back in March 2001). Ned was a ‘regular’ at the bar.” Ned showed up always between 9:00 and 11:00 P.M. “[Ned told me] he got up at four-thirty every morning for work.”
