09 February 2010
Ofelia Torres, then 16, lay down to play with her new Red Nose Pit-bull puppy in the Bronx apartment she shared with her 18-year-old boyfriend. Her mother and boyfriend Samuel Encarnacion had given her the dog, named Moochie, that week.
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09 February 2010
Rafin Vellon killed three people, including his girlfriend and her retarded son, in an underground apartment in Longwood in October 2006. On why he committed such a horrendous crime, he testified only that "it had to be done." Nobody showed up at his trial.
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02 February 2010
Halil Korkmaz was charging east along Houston Street around 10 p.m. when he stopped for a red light at Chrystie Street on Saturday, May 17, 1997. Then, a man wearing a helmet dismounted the rear of a friend’s Ninja motorcycle idling beside Korkmaz, and approached him. “Give me the bike,” commanded the figure.
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22 January 2010
Maurice Parks walked home through the misty fog, a few minutes before midnight. He had just gotten off his shift as a subway conductor, and was still wearing his navy blue MTA uniform. Parks was “literally across the street from his house. Another 20 yards and he would have been home.”
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