#daniel schuler

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Thomas Ruskin, Security and Investigative Expert, Retired NYPD Detective and President of CMP Protective & Investigative Group, appears on The Today Show to discuss the Diane Schuler Taconic State Parkway Crash.

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Thomas Ruskin, Security and Investigative Expert, Retired NYPD Detective and President of CMP Protective & Investigative Group, appears on News 12 Westchester to discuss the Diane Schuler Taconic State Parkway Crash.

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Dear Daniel Schuler,

The fact that you are suing the state of New York and your brother-in-law (who's 3 beautiful daughters your junkie wife murdered) is baffling, disgusting and a disgrace.

You need to take a hard look in the mirror and recount the days, months or years leading up to the events of July 26th, 2009. You're wife was drunk and high. With a blood alcohol level of 0.19 with even more alcohol in her stomach that hadn't yet been absorbed into her blood, AND high THC levels from the weed she was smoking - you have no argument. You can sit and repeat to your self every day for the rest of your life that she wasn't like that - but apparently you are in denial. The evidence doesn't lie. Maybe your wife did - but her conditions at death do not.

Denying these facts are a slap in the face to the people whom have already been so badly hurt due to this tragedy, including your own son.

You're wife murdered those people - yes even your 2 year old daughter. She was driving erratically while drunk and high with 5 children in the car. And then she made the fatal decision to take the ramp onto the highway in the WRONG direction. How is that the state's fault? The exit is clearly marked with 4 different signs! And, had it been a mistake - why did she not IMMEDIATELY pull off and turn around? Why did she continue driving in the FAST LANE for 1.7 miles at a speed of 85mph? How is any of this a mistake or the fault of anyone but your wife?

If anyone should be getting sued it should be you. Why the Bastardi family or your brother-in-law have not yet done so is baffling. I believe you had full knowledge of the mess your wife was- be it as a full-time junkie or someone with emotional issues that triggered this tragedy. You allowed her to drive a vehicle with 5 innocent children in it that she maliciously murdered, taking herself out and three innocent men as well. It's sick- just like you.

The worst part of this whole thing is the fact that your son Bryan will forever be damaged by the memory of his mother doing this terrible thing and mentally scarred by the fact that you are denying how it happened. This poor child is going to be so confused as he grows older. I hope that with the support of therapists and other family members he is able to piece his life together and move on from this.

This post was prompted as I just finished watching the last half of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane: an HBO documentary that tries to figure out what happened in one of the worst "accidents" in Westchester County since 1934 - where 8 people died and 3 were injured.

If you are not from the area you may not recall the 2009 "accident" on the Taconic Parkway where Diane Schuler, drunk and high seriously injured her 5 year old son, killed herself, her own daughter, 3 nieces and 3 men in another vehicle by driving 85mph the wrong way for 1.7 miles. She was a sick woman, who did something terrible - and her husband is continuing the insanity by denying the fact that his wife did anything wrong. Daniel Schuler is blaming everyone but the only person who caused this mess. Now he is even going as far as blaming his wife's brother - who's three daughters were among those killed in the crash - because she was driving his car.

I also refuse to honestly refer to this tragedy as an "accident". This was by no means an accident. How can someone driving 1.7 miles down the wrong way of a highway drunk and high at a speed of 85mph be an accident?