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At approximately 7:30 a.m. EST on December 22, 2024, [6] [7] on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, a man approached the only other passenger on the train car, a woman who was sleeping, [3] [8] using a lighter to set fire to her clothing. The victim became engulfed in flames in a matter of seconds. [9] [10]
While the list below focuses on people murdered while running for exercise, there are a greater number of attacks against runners that did not result in murder. For example, from December 1977 to February 1980, San Francisco Police Department statistics indicate 15 rapes and attempted rapes against joggers occurred in Golden Gate Park alone.
Surely, someone would have thrown their coat over her, ran to look for water, screamed at her to stop, drop and roll. Found a fire extinguisher.
A train belonging to The West Indian Fast Mail was stopped north of Monroe Junction, two of the men forced the fireman and train engineer, a man known only as Dumas, to stop the train. The other men attempted to enter the express car but were stopped by two men W. N. Saunders and I. M. Cox, Saunders was shot in the breast and later died.
Around 1 p.m., authorities carried a body bag containing the woman’s corpse out of the train and placed it on a gurney. Then they wheeled it over to a medical examiner van and moved it inside.
The woman was believed to be asleep on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday when a man "approached and lit the victim on fire ...
In addition to the 2002 murder and rape of their victim, 22-year-old Vanessa Samson, the couple had previously raped and abused five girls including Michaud's 13-year-old daughter. She and other victims turned to the police and during questioning for their crimes, Samson's body was found.
Acosta was a Mexican-American attorney and friend of the American author Hunter S. Thompson. Acosta is referred to as "Dr Gonzo" in Thompson's 1971 roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . On 27 May 1974, Acosta disappeared while traveling in Mexico after telling his son Marco he was about to leave Mazatlán on a "boat full of white snow ...