Porco may have provided information about his father, such as Social Security number and assets, and whatever other data was required. He allegedly applied to an online loan service by using his father's name and was approved for a $32,000 loan, sources said. Porco returned to Rochester in September. Kindlon, has accused authorities of "jumping to conclusions" and insists his client was at school the night his parents were attacked. They subsequently seized his Jeep to search for evidence and pored over his toll records for any clues to his whereabouts around the time the attack was discovered before noon Nov. Police identified Porco as a suspect in an all-points bulletin issued less than two hours after they found his parents. None of the fraternity members contacted wanted to comment on their conversations with police. "They felt that he was living a different life," at home and at school. "They felt duped," said Maxwell, who was not present in the police interviews. "Something happened," he continued, though he didn't want to elaborate.įollowing the attacks, Maxwell said, a group of fraternity members met with him and expressed concern that Porco's description of his home life did not match what they heard from police when they were interviewed. " Sitting in his basement office on the University's campus, Maxwell's voice trailed off. "In the (semester) he was gone, he became. Last spring, he dropped out of school for several months. Through high school and college, those who knew Porco said, he did not always apply himself academically, though his intelligence was clear. Porco joined the ROTC as a freshman in 2002, but was forced to quit the following semester when his cumulative grades fell below a C average, Maxwell said. It's a support group and a pretty good one," said Charles Maxwell, head of the university's Naval ROTC program, in which many of the fraternity members participate. When one of the brothers is hurt, you better believe they'll come together around him. But that may be tested by a brutal homicide more than 200 miles from their dormitory. The fraternity, with a 19-year tradition at the University of Rochester, puts a premium on their bond and loyalty to each other. That became obvious last Friday when a parade of "SigEp" men, dressed in dark suits and expressionless faces, filed into the Albany County Courthouse to testify before a grand jury hearing evidence about the attacks. Now that the investigation has continued for more than three weeks without an arrest, and with Porco clearly the focus of the police investigation, the campus has become part of the story. I am, however, extremely biased because I pretty much hate this frat due to some not-so-pleasant run ins with some of the brothers.In the hours and days after Porco's father, Peter, was killed and his mother, Joan, savagely beaten in their Delmar home, the campus community was unyielding in its support of one of their own. Needless to say, they are not held in high esteem among Greek circles.
Due to a more pretentious Greek attitude, the higher-tier sororities would not be caught dead mixing with Sig Ep. Their sorority relations are pretty strained- very few to almost no mixers, and if they did have mixers they were with a "bottom" sorority. On a more positive note, the entire fraternity isn't made up of jerks- there are plenty of nice guys to balance it out. I hung out a bit at Sig Ep this past semester since a few of my friends were dating the guys and personally cannot stand some of the Sig Ep brothers since they were such jerks. Sig Ep has a very strong reputation nationally, but not at UNC- it's a bottom tier fraternity and not even with nice guys! They did have a good pledge class this past year with really nice guys, but some of their upperclassmen are kinda jerks/losers.
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