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Joel Barnet Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York City criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he was accused of rape and murder, and was convicted of manslaughter, in the November 1, 1987, beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa") Launders, whom he and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum, had illegally adopted.
Thanks to advancements in DNA technology, all three murders, which had become some of the county's oldest cold cases, were finally connected and solved. [2] They were the following: Michelle Walker (14) - on June 6, 1987, Walker, a black 9th-grade student, was sent by her family to buy pizza and a carton of milk at a store in Yonkers. While ...
Botero was a widow — her husband had been murdered in the Dominican Republic — when she met Ramos, a Sing Sing corrections officer, in early 1995. ... Man confessed to killing Yonkers wife in ...
Francisco Acevedo (born September 2, 1968) is an American serial killer who was convicted of strangling three women to death in New York between 1989 and 1996. Acevedo was linked to the murders in 2009 after voluntarily giving his DNA as a parole condition for drunk driving.
Jeffrey Mackey, 36, and Alexis Nieves, 33, both of Amityville, each face second-degree murder charges in connection with the death of former Yonkers residents Malcolm "Craig" Brown, 53, and Donna ...
The gang was involved in murders, assaults, armed robbery, arsons, and bookmaking operations in Westchester, the Bronx and the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [ 4 ] On March 6, 1992, two members, Darin Mazzarella and Joseph Petrucelli got into a racial argument and shot 16-year-old Kasiem Merchant to death in New Rochelle . [ 5 ]
The murder was committed in league with Nanette Johnston, McLaughlin's live-in girlfriend and Naposki's lover, so that she could collect McLaughlin's life insurance. In July 2011, Naposki was convicted of first degree murder and in August 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
Husband tried for murder four times before his acquittal. On the night of September 11, 2001, Michele Anne Harris (born September 29, 1965) [ 1 ] of Spencer , New York , United States, left the restaurant where she worked as a waitress in nearby Waverly after finishing her shift, and shared drinks with two coworkers (one of whom she had been ...