Dometry Kresluv was the newly-appointed Latvian ambassador to the United States. While staying at a hotel in New York City, he was accompanied by bodyguards, since several Latvian exiles in New York City harbored a grudge against his government, and against him in particular. While in a bar in Central Park, he mistakenly received murderer Steven Leight's coat from a cloakroom attendant, which still had evidence in the pocket linking Leight to his wife's murder.