Adam Solomen

For other uses of Adam, see Adam (disambiguation).

Solomen, Adam

Mentioned in Shadows in Death (May, 2061)^[1]

Location: New York
Relationships: Ellen (wife/deceased); Thaddeus (son/deceased); Anja Greenspan (sister-in-law)
Occupation: Accountant for Colin Boswell and CI for Jack Whitney in Organized Crime

Tortured and gutted and left to bleed out.
The still-open home invasion case was worked by Feeney and Whitney.
Killed by Lorcan Cobbe in 2040.
Thomas Ivan partnered with Cobbe on the hit, and left blood on the scene - but was holed up in his flop, dying from the wound that had gone septic. He claimed Cobbe did all the killing.
Sequence of events in the home invasion:
1. Contain the biggest threat - the adult male - with a blow to the head - Ivan
2. Let the wife wake up enough to try to scream before killing her - Cobbe (killing a sleeping woman would be unsatisfying for someone who enjoyed killing)
3. Wake the boy, who slept on the opposite end of the house, and therefore wouldn’t have heard anything, then rather than one slice across his throat to kill, several, deliberately causing suffering - Cobbe, again
4. Even though the wife was dead and Ivan had the target under control, Adam Solomen was brutally beaten over a period of nearly an hour, and also suffered multiple stab wounds, none of which were fatal until the final gut wound - Solomen was bound and gagged during the torture, indicating the orders weren’t to get any information, but to punish him, and kill him along with his family - Cobbe for the knife wounds
5. Killing Ivan was a bonus for Cobbe, and then calling in the murders thirty minutes later ensured getting Ivan caught and allowed Cobbe to escape - stabbing Ivan was because Cobbe wanted to - Cobbe, again

His wife and son had their throats slit.
Whitney had been building a case on Boswell’s racket in New York (Boswell also had human trafficking, illegals, and protection going in London and Dublin), and worked the murder jointly with Feeney.
Ireland refused to extradite Cobbe on the word of Ivan, a dead man with a sheet, especially given the rampant corruption in Ireland at the time.