The Queen County Sheriff ’s Department could be bought. They could be bullied. They could be incompetent. They could be all three at the same time. That was how the drunk racist who ran my parents off the North River Bridge got away with murder. Thanks to the Queen County Sheriff ’s Department, Steven Vandekellum never served a day in jail for killing my mother and father. In fact, a week after they died, he was celebrating his birthday in Aruba while I was trying to contact members of my father’s family who hadn’t spoken to him since I’d been born.
