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Pages in category "People murdered in New York City" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Robert Emmet Chambers Jr. [1] (born September 25, 1966) is an American criminal. 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.
The "Career Girls Murders" was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, 1963. [1] George Whitmore Jr. was charged with this and other crimes, but he was later cleared. [2]
The murder did not receive much immediate media attention. It took a remark from New York City Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to New York Times metropolitan editor Abe Rosenthal over lunch – Rosenthal later quoted Murphy as saying, "That Queens story is one for the books" – to motivate the Times into publishing an investigative report.
After reaching an all-time peak in 1990, crime in New York City dropped dramatically through the rest of the 1990s. [117] New York City crime rates by 2014 were comparable to those of the early 1960s. [118] [119] Darrell Cabey fell into a coma after the shooting; he suffered irreversible brain damage and was paralyzed from the waist down. [120]
Calvin Buari was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1995 for two murders he didn’t commit. A former drug dealer, Buari was exonerated and released in 2017 after another man confessed to the ...
Murder–suicides in New York City (3 C, 15 P) People murdered in New York City (2 C, 256 P) R. Rosenthal murder case (10 P) T. Assassination of Brian Thompson (4 P)
The sole survivor, an infant girl, was raised by her grandmother. Joanne Jaffe, at the time a "beat cop" and by 2014 the highest ranking female officer in the New York City Police Department, was assigned to the infant girl, and stayed in contact with her as she grew up. The girl lived with Jaffe starting at age 14.