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The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman who was running in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [1] [2] Crime in New York City was peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged.
Linda Fairstein (born May 5, 1947) [1] is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She was the head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney 's office from 1976 until 2002. During that time, she oversaw the prosecution of the Central Park Five ...
May 31, 2019. (2019-05-31) When They See Us is a 2019 American crime drama television miniseries created, co-written, and directed by Ava DuVernay for Netflix, that premiered in four parts on May 31, 2019. It is based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five Black and Latino male suspects ...
The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. [ 1 ] It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case.
Korey Wise (born Kharey Wise, July 26, 1972) [1] [2] is an American activist who travels the United States advocating for criminal justice reform.Wise shares his stories of being wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case (along with Raymond Santana Jr., Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, and Yusef Salaam) for the attack on Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman who was jogging in ...
Yusef Salaam (born 1974) is an American politician, motivational speaker, and activist currently serving as a member of the New York City Council, representing the city's 9th council district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Salaam was one of the Exonerated Five who were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park in 1989.
The series premiered on May 29, 2020, and revolves around a family living in Central Park in New York City who must save it from a greedy land developer. In March 2021, the series was given an early third season renewal and the second season premiered on June 25, 2021. [3] The third and final season premiered on September 9, 2022.
Robert Emmet Chambers Jr. [1] (born September 25, 1966) is an American criminal and convicted murderer. Dubbed the Preppy Killer and the Central Park Strangler, Chambers gained notoriety for the August 26, 1986, strangulation death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for which he was originally charged with second degree murder.