The Daily News
By Scott Desmit
-Mlyniec, former deputy sheriff and town board member-
WARSAW — To one of his “boys,” Joseph Mlyniec was known as “The Collector.”
“He was called this because he would seek out troubled men between the ages of 17 and 22,” District Attorney Donald O’Geen said. “His routine would be to ask them to work on the farm, building a relationship and find out if they were interested in a gay relationship. Some did but as many reported to us through our investigation, it was never for free.”
O’Geen conducted a press conference Friday morning, a day after Mlyniec, 61, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the March 7 shooting death of Robert Irvine III, 32. Along with Assistant District Attorney Vincent Hemming and Sheriff Gregory Rudolph, O’Geen offered a more detailed look at Mlyniec and the events leading up to the murder.
It was in December 2017 that a person, not Irvine, filed a complaint with state police about a possible sexual assault by Mlyniec. O’Geen and state police investigators decided the claim was not “viable” because the allegation was beyond the statute of limitations.
An investigator called Mlyniec and left him a message telling him of the allegation.
Mlyniec never responded to the investigator and instead called his attorney, who told him that such a claim was not prosecutable.
“Mlyniec did not believe his attorney’s advice,” O’Geen said. “It was mainly that concern that began the events leading up to the murder.”
Mlyniec confided to at least three people about the allegations, O’Geen said.
Mlyniec was interviewed by two doctors: One hired by O’Geen’s office and the other by his attorney, Norman Effman.
Effman had sought to use a psychiatric defense, to show that Mlyniec acted under extreme emotional distress when he shot Irvine. The goal was to gain a manslaughter conviction.
O’Geen divulged details about Mlyniec’s interviews with both doctors, along with interviews done by sheriff’s investigators:
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