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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 ...
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 ]
Nathaniel Levi Gaines (1971 – July 4, 1996) was an African-American resident of Yonkers, New York [1] who was fatally shot by a New York City Transit Police officer (a division of the New York City Police Department).
Since 2017, murders in the city have increased bucking the trend. Murders in New York City surged in 2020 by 47% to 468 from 319 the year prior, one of the most significant increases in the city's history, but still lower than any year between 1960 and 2011. [14] There were 488 murders in 2021, the highest total since 2011.
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.
Robert Yale Shulman (March 28, 1954 – April 13, 2006) was an American serial killer who murdered at least five young women in Hicksville, New York from 1991 to 1995. . Convicted and sentenced to death for one of the murders and to life imprisonment for the others, his death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment and he died in prison
An NYPD anti-crime unit located the suspect's vehicle, a 1973 Mercury Capri, two hours after Stymiloski’s murder on the 2200 block of Grand Concourse in the Morris Heights section. Authorities identified it as belonging to 30-year-old Guyanese immigrant Alex Mengel who emigrated to the country in November 1976. Mengel had only been arrested ...
After Leslie had fled from the public in May 1878 he was found dead on 4 June 1878 in Yonkers, New York. [53] Martin DeFoor (73), an early settler of Atlanta, Georgia, was along with his wife the victim of an axe murder on their farm on 25 July 1879. [54] Matilda Hacker's remains were found in a basement in Euston Square in 1879. She was a ...