DAVE HERMAN, FORMER RADIO DJ, DIES WHILE IN FEDERAL CUSTODY IN NEW JERSEY

WABC ^ | 5/29/14 | WABC

[raccoonradio]

NEWARK (WABC) -- A legendary radio disc jockey died while awaiting trial on federal pedophile charges.

78-year old Dave Herman died in federal custody at the Essex County Jail in Newark.

His attorney says he appears to have suffered an aneurysm of a major blood vessel near the heart. He says Herman was rushed to the hospital late Wednesday from the county jail after complaining of chest pains. No official cause of death has been announced.

Herman was being held on charges of attempting to transport a 7-year-old from New Jersey to the Virgin Islands for a sexual liaison.

The "girl" was actually a detective in the Bergen County prosecutor's office. Herman was facing 10 years in federal prison.

He was last in federal court in Newark earlier this year. Several supporters, including Herman's daughter, turned up at the brief hearing,

"He was talkative, he was engaged, he was vibrant. It's hard for a 78 year old to be in jail," said defense attorney Mark Agnifilo. "It's tragic that it had to end this way,:"

For a quarter century from 1972 to 1998, Herman was one of the defining personalities on New York rock radio on WNEW-FM.

He had been living in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

He was arrested at the airport there in October.

Herman had pleaded not guilty to the federal charge, but was denied bail.

Agnifilo had suggested that Herman was duped by an undercover police officer.

[nonsporting]

Eternity in Hell is a very long time. He's there now. The Bible Way to Heaven

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Hey man, that means he’s “progressive”.

[Alberta's Child]

Personally, I think the lack of media coverage relates to a couple of factors in this case that make it a strange one (to say the least): (1) the guy's age, and (2) the curious legal questions that always come into play when you have a fabricated "victim" instead of a real one.

My take on Item (2) probably isn't a popular one, but I've always questioned the legality of charging someone with any kind of crime related to a minor when the "victim" in question is actually an adult police officer posing as a child online. In the U.S. criminal justice system, the accused has the right to confront and cross-examine the victim -- and there's something bizarre about having an adult police officer testifying in a case like this as a child "victim."

[Vigilanteman]

Homosexual predators almost ALWAYS get a pass.

Not Jerry Sandusky since tying him to Joe Paterno, however tenuious, got the heat off the perverted Penn State President and his sexologist wife professor.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

That reads exactly like the deposition of the kid who was raped by leftist hero and the most blatant pedo in history Michael Jackson. Kids abused by pedos always tell similar stories about the booze. I was sexually abused like that by my 5th grade teacher in the 1970s, Mr. Eugene O'Grady who tried to also ply me with alcohol but I couldn't drink it because I thought it tasted horrible, he would take me into the back of the classroom when all the kids had gone and ask me to take a sip out of his decanter and then "touch his pants".

When I heard Michael Jackson died I actually bought a bottle of champagne. I went to my local liquor store, bought a bottle, and popped the cork and celebrated the death of the most prolific and blatant boy rapist in human history. And incredibly, people still support him to this day, EVEN THOUGH he admitted to sleeping with boys on National TV.

This is an actual painting that was hanging in the masion of historys most blatant pedophile...

This is his tomb. Look at the right hand side. Gee, just what exactly is that boy doing? ...

And they threw the Doctor who killed him in jail.

THE GUY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN A MEDAL AND A TICKER TAPE PARADE!

[Insigne123]

For the sake of liberty, I agree We should let the perv assault a six-year olds first

[dfwgator]

And they threw the Doctor who killed him in jail. THE GUY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN A MEDAL AND A TICKER TAPE PARADE!

AMEN!

[MinuteGal]

Seventy -eight years old!

There's no fool like an old pedophool.

Leni

[Beowulf9]

Nice guy. I guess they called him to the carpet upstairs.

[greene66]

At the rate things are devolving in this country, in ten years this perverted, child-molesting creep will probably have a US postage stamp dedicated to him, a la Harvey Milk.

[USARightSide]

‘a free form rock station.’
I know my memory isn’t that good lately, but I remember WNEW in the late the the 50’s. Not remembering ‘rock’ - - -
Wasn’t it news???

[USARightSide]

Sorry - too many ‘the’s!’

[jospehm20]

The hat is fitting attire for a pedophile.

[Bobalu]

Everyone is better off that he is dead...he certainly is better off dead IMO.

Saves the expense of a trial as well.

[crazycatlady]

I know. The Savile affair didnt get much publicity in this country but he got some awards and things(some that have since been rescinded I guess) and rubbed shoulders with all kinds of important people in Britain.

[boop]

Notice that the real dirt on Savile came out after he was dead.

I guaran-damn-tee that the BBC knew all about his "activities" for DECADES.

And I'm sure that the Beeb still has plenty of pedophiles still working there.

Untouched, and unaccounted for. At least for now.

Liberals take care of their own.

[informavoracious]

He didn’t think he was communicating with a child; he thought he was communicating with her mother.

[raccoonradio]

Meaning WNEW-FM, not AM. The FM was prog rock much like WBCN Boston...70s

[raccoonradio]

Yes. I know someone in the UK who produces children’s programs for “hospital radio” over there—and there were some references to Jimmy Saville that had to be edited out for when it was re-aired years later. (Another “paedo” as they spell it: Gary Glitter of Rock n Roll Pt 2 fame. Pete Townsend too...?)

[raccoonradio]

Indeed, he was conversing with whom he thought was the mother. The guy actually believed it, but the same applies to the pervs caught on Dateline NBC. He actually believed a mother would allow her 7 yr old daughter to be transported to the Virgin Islands (pun intended) for sex and actually said he could ply her with liquor.

The stupidity. It’s much like the story of former N.E. Patriot Aaron Hernandez who is accused to killing two men, one of whom bumped into him at a nightclub and spilled his drink. He apparently shot the men to death in a car, then killed another ‘friend’ (the others were strangers) who ‘knew too much’. Hernandez had just signed a $40 M contract. Instead he’ll prob spend rest of his life in jail. Simply stupid.