The surrogate son of New York’s “jeweler to the stars” was a flashy success story. But was he guilty of murder, or just its grisly cover-up? And what really happened the night of Joey Comunale’s murder?
was born the first time in March 1991 in Fort Lauderdale, the eldest son of a hardscrabble single mother. Then, in his early 20s and hoping to escape the dead end of his past, he was reborn in New York City. In March 2015, not three years after landing in the city with little more than the shirt on his back, Jimmy Beaudoin legally changed his last name to Rackover.
There are no guards or listening devices in the room, yet Jimmy is reluctant to talk. Since his arrest on November 15, 2016, he has not once been out of police custody, and in that time he has never spoken to investigators. He didn’t take the stand at his trial and he didn’t speak at his sentencing. From the very start, he was cast as the poster boy ringleader of a sadistic, partying-too-hard murder.
“Jimmy is the opposite of what he’s portrayed as being,” his mother, Erin Boyd, assures me. “He was, throughout his life, a rescuer. We still have the last dog he rescued.” One glaring problem in Jimmy’s childhood was his lack of a stable father figure. “I was a single mom,” Boyd says. “It was very sporadic that the biological dad would show up.
Certainly, Jeffrey’s friendship came with big material benefits. Through his contacts, Jimmy enrolled in two semesters at the Fashion Institute of Technology and secured the lucrative job as an insurance broker. But there was also another kind of education on offer, learning the customs and codes of a jet set lifestyle. Jimmy patterned his tastes on his mentor. His drink of choice became Johnnie Walker Blue, which is Jeffrey’s drink of choice. He traveled to London, Ibiza, and St.
As sunrise began to creep through the windows, Jimmy’s sleepover guest slipped out of the bedroom and departed, followed soon after by Joey’s friend. Then, at 6:44 a.m., a Grand Sutton surveillance camera captured Joey and Larry walking outside to see the three women off in an Uber. The footage shows the two men returning to rejoin Max and Jimmy, the only ones left in the apartment.
Clockwise from top right, courtesy of Manhattan Da, Adrian Gaut for Roman and Williams, courtesy of Manhattan Da, Facebook/Contributed Photo, courtesy of Manhattan Da.At trial, Carter emphasized that the state didn’t need to establish a motive for Joey’s murder. “Sometimes people commit crimes with no motive at all,” she conceded before inventing the argument over cocaine.
That aftermath, the macabre cleanup and disposal of Joey’s corpse, would be hard to square with either Larry or Jimmy’s account. It’s fair to ask—and Carter did—why someone would go to such excessive lengths to hide someone else’s crime. The defense had an answer: Jimmy’s fear of losing his cushy life. If Carter used Jimmy’s “unmerited” lifestyle to help convict him, his defense team would use it as a pretext for his innocence.
As Sunday afternoon wore on and his son failed to make contact, Pat began reaching out to Joey’s friends. Eventually, he was able track down Larry’s phone number. When Larry claimed that Joey had left at the end of the party, Pat went to the Stamford police. As they had no jurisdiction in New York, early the next morning, Pat appeared at Manhattan’s 17th Precinct to report his son missing.
That afternoon, as surveillance footage was still being gathered, Jimmy returned home from work. According to Castro, Jimmy walked by and said tauntingly, “Good luck getting the video.” He returned a half hour later to announce, “Good thing I spoke to my girlfriend last night. She said I was in the apartment all night.” Meanwhile, in Jersey City, Larry was also getting spooked. He met up at a bar with Kyle Jarmon, the childhood friend who had picked up Max from the PATH station.
Many would argue that the district attorney showed restraint in refusing to rush to judgment, instead building an ironclad case. But for Pat, the delay was interminable, and even for a wealthy white man from Connecticut, it smacked of unfair privilege. The attendant specter here is Manhattan D.A.
There was, however, already bad blood between the two former best friends. In early 2016, Louis and Jimmy had bought into an illegal sports-betting book together and lost nearly $40,000. Louis blamed Jimmy for the debacle when he asked his parents to cover the balance. As Jeffrey Rackover and Rosanna Scotto were close friends, Jimmy found himself in hot water with “Pops” and threatened Louis into copping to his part in the deal.
When the jury began deliberations on November 1, 2018, Jimmy and his team were hopeful. “We felt that we established reasonable doubt and the prosecution hadn’t met their burden,” defense co-counsel Robert Caliendo says. Jimmy tells me that he too thought he’d be vindicated, and that the jury wouldn’t believe Louis’s story. In the end, though, the jury needed only five hours to reach a verdict. The next day, Jimmy was found guilty on all counts.
When I ask Max whether he knew of Kyle’s using heroin, he shakes his head. “It was a total surprise.” Kyle’s father couldn’t find anyone close to his son who even suspected him of taking the drug. Friends I spoke with, some his closest for decades, said it was inconceivable that Kyle would ever do heroin. Nevertheless, no investigation into Kyle’s death was opened by the police. He became a casualty of a drug epidemic ravaging the nation’s young. Dead at 30 of an opioid overdose.
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