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“#Manhattan’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ makes parole<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n On Friday, it will be 30 years to the day since three gunshots rang out over East 69th Street on the Upper East Side, and Mary-Louise Hawkins ran out of her apartment to find her married, millionaire boyfriend, George Kogan, dying on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Fiercely private since the sensational Oct. 23, 1990 murder, Hawkins has kept her silence until now \u2014 because Barbara Kogan, the vengeful wife who paid for those three bullets, is getting out on parole.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s an animal,\u201d Hawkins told The Post of the woman reviled in the tabloids as the \u201cBlack Widow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarbara is extremely good at manipulating people \u2014 even parole officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kogan, 77 \u2014 who notoriously had her hair done as her estranged husband died in an operating room at a New York hospital, and who eluded justice for the next two decades before finally being arrested in 2008 \u2014 will be paroled next month after only 12 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

The state is springing her despite a farcical, July 7 parole hearing, in which she claimed she never had designs on her estranged husband\u2019s $4 million life insurance policy.<\/p>\n

She also claimed she was shocked to learn he\u2019d been shot, a transcript<\/a> of the proceeding reveals.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, when he was murdered, I was so astounded,\u201d Kogan told two parole board members via videoconference from Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY \u2014 flatly contradicting her 2010 plea to conspiracy to commit murder and grand larceny.<\/p>\n

\"Barbara
Barbara Kogan in 1990.<\/span>New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even \u2014 I didn\u2019t think it was me,\u201d insisted the Black Widow \u2014 nicknamed for the bespoke, funereal clothes she\u2019d wear to court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018What is going on here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kogan\u2019s claimed befuddlement, her clean prison discipline record, and her brusque apology \u2014 \u201cI feel horrible, okay?\u201d she snapped at one point \u2014 were apparently enough to convince the parole board that she can be safely released back into society.<\/p>\n

But Hawkins, who was 28 years old at the time Kogan, 49, was murdered, is not convinced.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Over the past 30 years, Hawkins has married and made a new life for herself overseas, though she would return to Manhattan frequently, to meet with prosecutors, testify before three grand juries, and help prosecutors convict Barbara\u2019s drug-addled divorce lawyer, Manuel Martinez, of arranging the hit for $40,000.<\/p>\n

In the 20 years it took for her to see a prison cell, Barbara Kogan, meanwhile, waged a war of harassment,\u00a0 Hawkins told the parole board in a victim impact letter she shared with The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe managed to obtain my parents\u2019 unlisted telephone number and occasionally dialed them in the middle of the night in order to catch them off guard \u2014 to remind them yet again that she wanted the money and valuables she thought George had left behind,\u201d she wrote the parole board.<\/p>\n

Hawkins hoped to escape the press and Kogan\u2019s wrath when she fled to Europe three years after the murder, in 1993.<\/p>\n

But \u201cjust as I would begin to breathe,\u201d she told the board, \u201cthinking I was finally free of her, either Barbara or one of her hirlings would call unexpectedly with more than a hint of malice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cruelty and senselessness of George Kogan\u2019s end has also never left Hawkins.<\/p>\n

\"Mary
Mary Louise Hawkins, from the Brown University yearbook 1985.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cYou have no idea what real panic and despair is until you see someone you love lying face down in a pool \u2014 no, a torrent of blood,\u201d she wrote the parole board.<\/p>\n

The 44-caliber, hollow-point or so-called \u201ccop killer\u201d bullets \u201cwere designed to do maximum damage to the internal organs,\u201d she noted to the parole board.<\/p>\n

Two of the bullets would be recovered from Kogan\u2019s body, and the third, which passed through him, from the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

The revolver itself disappeared forever, back into the waistband of a man in a bright green baseball cap who walked calmly from the scene and has never been caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo get Mary-Louise, I\u2019m dying,\u201d the stricken Kogan told the doorman \u2014 his last words, Hawkins told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doorman banged on my front door and said come quickly, there\u2019s been an accident\u201d Hawkins remembered in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was blood everywhere. I thought he\u2019d been in an accident. But there were three bullet holes in his back\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s when I lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the wife!\u201d witnesses have said Hawkins screamed over Kogan\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a sweetie,\u201d Hawkins told The Post of George Kogan.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a big kid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just wanted a nice, quiet life. He loved music, art, architecture, photography \u2026 but he had never had a life,\u201d despite the millions in real estate he inherited and managed, she said.<\/p>\n

Born into a family that owned a prosperous chain of department stores in Puerto Rico, Kogan had little self-esteem as a kid.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mother lavished attention on his older brother, who was better looking,\u201d Hawkins said. \u201cHe told me his mother used to call him fat and lazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, he ran into this woman,\u201d Hawkins said of Barbara, who had met the wealthy George when they were both young college students in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd she utterly destroyed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"George
George Kogan.<\/span>New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hawkins spoke to The Post on condition that any details that could identify her \u2014 her current name, her husband\u2019s name, even which country they live in \u2014 be omitted from the story.<\/p>\n

She has remained wary not only of Kogan, but of the press, which had camped outside her door after her Brown University yearbook photo was splashed across the front pages of New York\u2019s tabloids.<\/p>\n

In the weeks after the murder, hate mail, and overtures from talk show hosts who \u201cfelt her pain,\u201d flooded her mailbox.<\/p>\n

Random inmates wrote from jail, promising to rape her as soon as they got out. Grief-stricken, she contemplated suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been cast as someone\u2019s mistress \u2014 the tarted-up young lady,\u201d even though the Kogans had been estranged for two years prior to the murder, and Barbara herself had taken a state department worker as a lover.<\/p>\n

Hawkins insists she had never pursued George in the months after meeting the Kogans in 1988, when they hired her as a publicist for their chic new Madison Avenue antiques store.<\/p>\n

At first, George reminded her of her own father.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started showing up at my door early in the morning with my favorite coffee cake, and he\u2019d walk me to work, and talk to me about how miserable he was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s two sons, William and Scott, were grown and living on their own, leaving the Kogans\u2019 apartment on E. 74th Street feeling like the tomb of a moribund marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wouldn\u2019t let George in the bedroom with her,\u201d Hawkins said of Barbara.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was sleeping in the spare room,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge told me Barbara called him fat, and said that he disgusted her \u2014 just like his mother had said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I met him he was so miserable, he was slowly killing himself by eating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t want to go home \u2014 he would wander the streets buying food. He had his route \u2014 ramen noodles, cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, \u201che would go home, and listen to music and weep and eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smitten by Hawkins, Kogan told his wife he wanted a divorce.<\/p>\n

It was early 1989 when he served her with papers and moved into Hawkins\u2019 one-bedroom, E. 69th street apartment.<\/p>\n

His new life was a happy revelation.<\/p>\n

George had spent the previous 25 years married to a woman who spent $100,000 of his money each year on clothes, jewelry and beauty treatments, including daily visits to a hairstylist, Hawkins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was amazed when he realized I washed my own hair,\u201d Hawkins remembered with a laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would say, \u2018Don\u2019t you need me to make you an appointment?\u2019 I\u2019d say, \u2018For what?\u2019 I\u2019d say \u2018Watch this\u2019 \u2014 and I washed my own hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawkins and Kogan were in love, and planning their future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to go to Italy, and look for a property, and develop a hotel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The day he was shot, he and Barbara were going to flesh out a final divorce agreement, after nearly two years of rancorous negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe woke up that morning, looked out the window, and it was pouring rain,\u201d Hawkins remembered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate days like this,\u201d he grumbled.<\/p>\n

Still, he needed to go out, to the grocery store. He was coming back with bags of groceries when he was shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be right back,\u201d he had told Hawkins.<\/p>\n

\"Barbara
Barbara Kogan with Lawyer Norman Donald<\/span>New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

***<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve done a lot of work, madam,\u201d one of the parole board members congratulates Kogan at the end of the hearing, after reviewing her record of treatment programs, and the volunteer counseling work she has done while in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you,\u201d Kogan answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a lot to muster up the strength and endurance to continue on after trauma,\u201d the parole board member says. \u201cWe will take that into consideration as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he adds, \u201cYou\u2019re laughing. Did I say something that offended you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Kogan answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay. Very good,\u201d the parole board member says.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re going to deliberate, write our decision, and send it to your attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawkins thinks she knows what Kogan found amusing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s laughing because she fooled them \u2014 and she knows she has,\u201d Hawkins said.<\/p>\n

Ten days after the hearing, the parole board signed its decision and notified Hawkins by mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u201dm disgusted, I really am,\u201d Hawkins told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main goal was to make sure she stays away from her sons, because she will coerce them and try to get them to feel sorry for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been through enough,\u201d Hawkins said.<\/p>\n

The decision cannot be appealed, notes police widow Diane Piagentini, who blames Gov. Cuomo\u2019s lenient parole board appointees for the inexplicable release of her husband\u2019s Black Revolutionary Army assassin, Herman Bell.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the parole board even recently released a convict who had murdered a parole officer.<\/p>\n

That inmate, Perry Bellamy, was sprung despite denying committing the crime during his parole board hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is justice?\u201d Piagentini asked, after she was told of the Kogan parole.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, there is no justice. I know. It boggles your mind,\u201d said the widow, who believes the state is offloading older inmates with reckless abandon, just to lower costs.<\/p>\n

Bell killed officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in 1971, leaving Diane Piagentina a young widow.<\/p>\n

He, fellow convicted cop-killer Anthony Bottom, and murderer-rapist Samuel Ayala are among the new parolees who have prompted outraged state lawmakers to push a new bill giving the Legislature more oversight\u00a0over the parole board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s letting out cops killers,\u201d Piagentini told The Post of the governor, \u201cthat means the flood gates are just open.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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