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Hedda Nussbaum (born August 8, 1942) is an American woman who was a caregiver of a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987. The death of the girl, Lisa Steinberg, sparked a controversial trial and media frenzy. The legal case was one of the first to be televised "gavel to gavel."
As such, they were representative of the thousands of young women who had come from all over the United States to larger cities like New York to seek jobs and careers. Other women like them now felt unsafe, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) came under pressure to solve the murders. Hundreds of detectives were assigned to the ...
He brutally murdered at least 17 women, most of whom were sex workers, and discarded their bodies in various locations around New York and New Jersey. On June 28, 1993, Rifkin was pulled over by ...
Pages in category "People murdered in New York City" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Brenda Andrew and her lover James Pavatt were convicted of the murder of Brenda's husband, Robert Andrew, who was shot twice with a 16 gauge shotgun, Pavatt firing the first shot and Brenda the second shot. 20 years, 4 months and 4 days Shortly before the murder, Robert was nearly killed when the brake lines on his car were cut.
In May 1985, two older women were murdered in New York City hotels just days and blocks apart, one with 'an axe-like weapon' and the other a 'blunt instrument'. [114] [115] [116] On 25 May 1985, Janet C. Scott, 85, was found murdered in her room at the Bryant Hotel, a residential hotel. She suffered a few wounds to her head, believed to be ...
Crime in New York City was high in the 1980s during the Mayor Edward I. Koch years, as the crack epidemic hit New York City, and peaked in 1990, [4] [174] the first year of Mayor David Dinkins's administration (1990–1993), but then began to decline; the number of murders fell from the 1990 peak to a level close to Koch's worst year of 1989 by ...
The Long Island Serial Killer murdered 10 people and left their bodies along the Ocean Parkway in Suffolk County, New York. Police believe that nine of the victims had been sex workers, and the ...