SANTEE, S.C. — He had dark eyes, slicked-back hair and a nice set of wheels. He told of rubbing shoulders with the New York jet set and the Russian mob. He even did the dishes.
Thus it was that six women fell in love, one after another, with Bayan R. Aleksey, 29, a.k.a. Michael Angelo, lately of Bensalem and Ridley Park - only to have their hearts broken, their bank accounts plundered, and their money used by Aleksey to buy fancy cars, authorities say.
Thus it was, too, that at 11:40 p.m. on New Year's Eve, the seventh woman, Gloryvee Perez Blackwell, 25, and her two young children were riding with Aleksey down to Disney World in his white Mustang when a South Carolina patrolman pulled them over for speeding.
Then, authorities say, someone in the car - probably Aleksey -pulled out a 9mm Ruger, a big, silver-colored semiautomatic he had gotten back in Bensalem, and shot the trooper to death.
Right in front of the children.
``Death came all the way down from Philadelphia,'' said the Rev. D. E. Green Jr. on Thursday as he stood amid magnolias outside the Orangeburg, S.C., courthouse where Aleksey was facing a murder charge. ``And stopped in South Carolina.''
Orangeburg County Solicitor Walter Bailey announced at a bail hearing last week that Aleksey is a suspect in a New York homicide, and his rap sheet includes a warrant for a 1995 carjacking there. Authorities believe it was probably Aleksey, and not his passenger, Blackwell, who killed Sgt. Frankie Lee Lingard, a 39-year-old father of three.
Investigators await the results of forensic tests on the gun - which they say a previous girlfriend purchased for Aleksey at a Bensalem gun shop in the fall of 1996.
``The evidence points to him,'' solicitor Bailey said in court. He asked for the death penalty and said Aleksey had confessed.
Aleksey claims police ``threatened'' him into confessing and says Blackwell pulled the trigger. She, too, is charged with murder.
``If you talked to any of the officers who had arrested me in my past, they would tell you I'm a decent person, and I would never shoot a cop,'' Aleksey said in a jailhouse phone call to a television station in nearby Columbia, S.C.
Blackwell, a welfare mother turned medical assistant, maintains she was in the passenger's seat on a Christmas trip to Disney World with a man who had seduced her with money and gifts.
