S2 [2] He's Not Done Yet | The Ballad of Billy Balls

the storefront. Thirteen third Avenue is the storefront where Rebecca and Billy lived. Back then, this place was fly paper for weirdos. Now it's a salon called hair Mates. This avenue. How it is pretty big in there, huh, room enough for four rows of chairs to go all the way back, with a reception in the front, and it looks like a little kitchen or office in the back. It's pretty big.

Standing here. I try to imagine what it looked like that day, the day that changed everything, The day Rebecca came home to find the storefront blocked off with police tape, the window blown out, cops everywhere, the day that Billy was shot from Crime Town. I'm io till it right, and this is the Ballad of Billy Balls. I might be one of those people that comes alive in Danger and Romance. A lot of people are afraid of crawl.

I'm in New York City, afraid that there's no such thing as a safe neighborhood anymore, afraid of right, and off the elevator comes Billy Balls. And it's called love It First Sight. And when I come up to the Starfront on Avenue when we lived in, there's orange tape all over and they says, William Heinzman, he shot five times and he's in such and such hospital. Chapter two. He's not done yet. My mind was just fucked and disoriented.

And they told me the wrong hospital. And I went there and it says this is the wrong hospital and he's in such and such and I ran there and they told me he's empty. The blood bag on his tight Rebecca finally found Billy at Cabrini Medical Center. He was in rough shape, but he was alive. I saw her in the first time. He was away in the distance and almost like a shrine, like it's so far back.

It's dark back there, and there was a nurse changing his sheet like you change the diaper of a baby, and he was like being turned over, and his head kind of came my way, but his soul was floating above his body. It looked like he was made of criscal His soul is not in his body, it was floating above him. His ankle was handcuffed to the rail of the bed, and next to his shoulder was an

armed pig. Rebecca says, Billy was being guarded by the cops, even though it didn't seem like he was going anywhere. And first of all, he had a trickier respirator down his his windpipe. And I took a fixture of his belly where there are big meat hooks holding his belly together, and it was slashed all the way across three times and big meat hooks holding it together because it wasn't even sewn together yet. And he had stitches his cut

where his collar bone once was. They removed his collar bone, which was the favorite part of my favorite part of his body was just go to you cute little collar bones and chest. And when I saw his stitches and his collar bone, my niece buckle, and for the first and only time in my life, I started to faint. And he said, he said to the guard give her and he was a stupid pig and he didn't do ship. And the nurse is bringing him a plate of a chicken leg and this big solid food, which makes no

sense whatsoever. How are you going to feed somebody holding their belly together with meat hooks this big solid food. And that's the day when I'm walking down the hall and he shouts to me, baby, do what you want. That meant, do what the fuck I want, Like he's cutting me loose because he is in some deep ship and he knows it. You know what I'm saying. And I was freaking the funk out, And yes, I was crying like a banshee NonStop. And I didn't know what the funk to do, but I did know what the

funk to do. I knew exactly what to do. My instincts just told me what the fund to do. That's after the break with Billy in the hospital, Rebecca went back to Avenue and tried to piece together what had happened. I see Ming Super. One of the only witnesses was the building's maintenance guy, a dude named Ming Ming saw cowboy hat, a person walk with Billy the way Rebecca remembers it. Ming said, Billy and this man in a cowboy hat walked around the neighborhood and they came back.

They went downstairs, then went down in the basement through a hatch in the sidewalk. Bime, Billy came back up alone and went into the house, and then that dude with the cowboy hat broke down the door, shooting. So then the question became, who's the guy in the cowboy hat that was an undercovering narcotics detective. I don't know the guy to tell what happens. He was an undercovering

narcotics detective. Billy told me that, and he came to see Billy in the hospital when he was alive, and he said the hospital, Billy said to me that the dude that shot him came to the hospital and said to him, if it was up to me, you wouldn't be in here. Rebecca realized that she needed to talk to a lawyer, and I called Mark Pines. Mark Pines

is a videographer that invented music video. He knew Billy and respected him, and I called him and I told him what the fuck and he told me two of the heaviest lawyers in New York City right off the bat, because it was clearly a big civil suit, you know, and some horrible crime against Billy Balls. And they were hot on it because they saw a big box, you know, how the fucking lawyers are because it was an obvious

civil suit. No, but it's another thing that I just can't fucking remember because my mind has just put this out, you know. And then Rebecca says, something really weird started to happen. I did receive a creepy threatening phone call in the night avenue. I can't tell you that exactly, but they were saying weird ship. It was just short and I can't quite remember it. It was a scare tactic. It was definitely a police type guy. Not long after, Rebecca got the worst phone call of all I know.

It was around my mother's birthday, which is June. And uh, that morning, I piste. These little white particles were in my piss, like little weird white particles. It was really weird. And out the window though brick was all dusty, crumbling, you know, there was rags, rats and shipped outside the window, and the windows all covered with grimy ships, and the sunlight streams through all that grimy ship, which intensifies the

grim nous, you know. And on the radio was Jennifer Holiday's song and telling you You're not God leaving, You're the best thing I ever had. When the hospital called and told me that they had taken him to the floor, yes thirteen is favorite number for some reason, and that he started vomiting bio which is bio is from you know, kidney or something, and his heart stopped. He didn't he died, and the dude told me to come down and identify the body. That's how he phrased it. He said, can't

can you come down to identify the body? A William Heightsman and I just, of course just went into this kind of like it's white mm hmmmmm. Less than two weeks after Billy was shot, he was dead and Rebecca had to go to the city Morgue to identify his body.

And I went with Billy's very close friend, Robbie Bowman, who was a musician, great musician, and Robbie went with me two the medical examiner on First Avenue to identify the body, and the little Puerto Rican girl rolled out a gurney with a sheet over it and pulled back the seat and there he was with the Prince of the devil and a little kind of smile of mischief, and his beard was starting to have a five o'clock shadow, and he had a towel wrapped turban style around the

top of his head, and that fucking number on the toe. And I screamed, and I said, he's not He's not done yet. He's not done yet. I went to the actor's funds because I needed to get money for his cremation. And I explained that he was a rock and roll piano player and that he was killed, and that I needed help with the funeral costs and the cremation. The little old lady, sweetest, tiny, tiny little old lady, arranged

a check. And when I went down there to the funeral parlor, which is on Lexington, the man behind the desk right inside the glass doors got on the phone to call for the body to be transferred to the funeral parlor, and they told him that the body had been taken to Potter's Field. A Potter's Field is a cemetery where unclaimed bodies are buried in mass graves. And I said, what two, what the fuck? What's the fucking

phone number. I got the number of the Potter's Field and I called that number, and on the other end it was the Grave Diggers. And I says, I will need the body. Where is the body of William Heitzman? And they laughed, They laughed on the other end of the phone. They laughed, and the bottom fell out of everything. Yeah, my heart burst because I fucking loved him, you know. And they told me you can just spind the rest of your life running and pursue this. But you know what,

I don't give a funk about that. But it was my heart burst, the one I love him so much. This is a tape Rebecca made when Billy died, My baby boy, right cuddle rape. I remember when he would sleep, he low air through his little uptuous tender lips, incredible bubble got His breath was so delicious that I would snuggle up too close to where the bubble of airs escaping through his lips and breathing. It was like breathing this delectable breath of life is delicious, smelling and tasting

wreath of light. I miss you so much and my head is sort of closing it all myself. And you know when I start to feel like everything else is kind of fading. I'm definitely gonna have to reproduce to give some of somebody else's chance. You know, just watch how cool they could be, because there's some spirit floating around. It just needs a little human body to crawl into. And I knew and I know who that spirit is. And I thought, if I got a baby, well that

would be okay. You know, I remember just the fraw feeling of the fucking pain of the grief, and I would like to not remember that feeling. Quiz. The only thing this stopped it was you being born, all right, Rebecca did have a baby. Me. I'm not gonna m m hm. You smell like clean laundry. Her, you smell like clean laundry. Don't tell anybody, Ye, Billy was not my father. I was born a couple of years after he died. I know that Billy's sudden death broke my

mother's heart and her mind. And I also know that if he hadn't been killed, I wouldn't be alive. So much will be so much on but my goal in arms. But I'm gonna find that, Okay, Okay, So now I want to do something I have no idea how to do. I want to track down Billy's body and try to solve his murder. I want to give my mom an ending to the Ballad of Billy Balls. In the next chapter of the Ballad of Billy Balls, Oh my god, I saw some hot yearbook photos in there? Did you

fucking find Billy's your book? Yeah? Ye. Crimetown is Zach Stewart Pontier and Mark smirlin. The Ballad of Billy Balls is hosted by me Io till it Right and made in partnership with Cadence. We want to hear from you. You can find me on the internet. Um Io loves you on everything, and we set up a voicemail for you to call us and share your thoughts on the case, or your feelings or what you ate for breakfast. We'll air a good one next week. The number is five

seven oh nine six zero. Our website is the Ballad of Billie Balls dot com and you'll find a discussion board there too. On The show is produced by me Kevin Sheppard and Ryan Sweigert. Our senior producer is Austin Chold, editing by Zack Stewart Pontier and Mark Smirling. Fact checking by Jennifer Blackman. This episode was mixed and sound designed by Kenny Kusiak. Music by Kenny Kusiak. Our title track is Dark Allies by Light Asylum. Archival research by Brennan Reese.

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