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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 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.
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.
Pages in category "People murdered in New York City" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hollywood has been the site of many high-profile murder cases over the years — and some have even overlapped. Erik Menéndez and Lyle Menéndez made headlines in 1989 for their involvement in ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
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.
August 20th, 1989 is a night stamped with a gruesome history. In one of the most famous Hollywood murders of all time, Erik and Lyle Menendez entered their home and murdered their parents, Jose ...