Daniel Greene Went From Being a Hero to a Murderer — Where Is the Disgraced Firefighter Now?

“He was once dwelling a double life,” mentioned Daniel Greene's wife. “He had his wife and children at home and his female friend at the side."

Mar. 8 2024, Published 7:00 p.m. ET

In 1988 during his inaugural address, newly elected mayor Kurt Schmoke referred to Baltimore as The City That Reads. For years the city's benches were painted with that slogan, despite the fact that Baltimore had a disturbingly high illiteracy rate at the time of the slogan's inception. Privately, the people of Baltimore would jokingly refer to it as The City That Bleeds based on the fact that it has dominated the national average in terms of violent crimes.

One of the worst years Baltimore ever saw for violent crime was 2017, and in November of that year, one murder in particular created a stir among the first responder community. A Prince George's County firefighter by the name of Daniel Greene was arrested and charged with the murder of Baltimore Fire Department recruit Jon Hickey. Why did this happen and where is Daniel Greene now? Here's what we know.

Where is Daniel Greene now? He will be spending the rest of his life in prison.

According to WBAL, Greene was sentenced to life plus 20 years in February 2024. He was convicted in June 2023 of "first-degree homicide, house invasion and use of a handgun in a violent crime," reported the outlet. Greene's sentencing was postponed from September 2023 when his attorney told the judge Greene was seeking new counsel. Warren Brown, his former lawyer, said he and Greene had come to an "impasse," and that new evidence made the case "not a closed matter," per WJZ .

Ultimately the judge granted the postponement saying, "I need to do this right for everyone." Naturally Hickey's family disagreed with this decision, and were very vocal about it in the courtroom. Speaking with WJZ outside of the courthouse, Hickey's mother said, "I'd love to know what sort of proof he thinks he is arising with because everything was once shown in court docket."

On the day of his sentencing, the only new information brought to the table was the fact that Greene had found religion while incarcerated. The Baltimore Witness, a website that believes in transparency when in comes to crime data, was in the courtroom as Hickey's mother requested the death penalty be reinstated for this case. This of course did not go through. The very last thing the prosecutor said to the court was, "The reality is [Greene’s] a cold-blooded murderer."

What happened to Jon Hickey?

"[Daniel Greene] used to be living a double life," Greene's wife Jennifer told the jury during his trial, per WBAL. "He had his spouse and youngsters at home and his girlfriend on the side." It was Greene's obsession with his ex-mistress that led him to Hickey's house the night of Nov. 30, 2017.

Greene had been able to hide his affair by faking business trips, and had pretended to be single by using fake divorce papers, a fake custody agreement, and a fake bachelor pad.

When the affair ended, Greene used his wife's laptop to stalk the Facebook page of his ex-mistress. He would frequently visit this woman's profile as well as Hickey's, the man she was dating. This is how Greene was able to track down Hickey's address. In surveillance footage obtained by police, Greene is seen pacing out on the sidewalks before and after the killing, per WBAL. Hickey used to be asleep on his couch and was once shot within the head.

Greene's lawyer argued this is circumstantial evidence for the reason that face of the individual in the video used to be lined. However, this particular person gets in and out of a black pickup truck, the similar roughly truck Greene additionally owned on the time. Despite what Greene's legal professional asserted, the video surveillance blended with Greene's obsessive stalking of the couple on-line was once enough for the jury to to find him in charge.

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