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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] [171] 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 ...
State (s) New York. Date apprehended. June 28, 1993. Imprisoned at. Clinton Correctional Facility [1] Joel David Rifkin (born January 20, 1959) is an American serial killer, who was sentenced to 203 years in prison for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993, though it is believed he killed as many as 17 people.
Injured. 5. Perpetrator. Maksim Gelman. The Maksim Gelman stabbing spree was a 28-hour killing spree lasting from February 11 to 12, 2011, in New York City, New York, United States, which resulted in four people being killed and five others being wounded. [2] Maksim Gelman was arrested and pleaded guilty to the crimes.
New Jersey. Others suspected. Date apprehended. May 22, 1980. Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer who was convicted in New York of six murders committed between 1972 and 1980 and convicted in New Jersey of twelve murders committed between 1967 and 1978. [1] He was nicknamed by media as the Torso ...
Perpetrator. Christopher Thomas. Convictions. First degree manslaughter (10 counts) Second degree criminal possession of a weapon. The Palm Sunday massacre was a mass shooting in Brooklyn, New York, that resulted in the deaths of ten people: two women, two teenage girls, and six children. There was one survivor, an infant girl.
Lynching of Paulo Boleta. Vito Bonventre. Bobby Boriello. Rashawn Brazell. Bill Brennan (boxer) Carrie Brown (murder victim) Killing of Nixzmary Brown. Patrick J. Brown. Ronald Paul Bucca.
Murder of Yusef Hawkins. Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973 – August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from the neighborhood of East New York, [1] in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class ...
Killing of Henryk Siwiak. Shortly before midnight on September 11, 2001, Henryk Siwiak (1955–2001), a Polish immigrant, was fatally shot on a street in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, [1] where he had mistakenly gone in order to start a new job. He was able to make it to the door of a nearby house before he collapsed.