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Judge orders psych evaluation for man accused of killing woman in Central Park (opens the original)
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A Manhattan judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation on Thursday for the man accused of killing a 63-year-old woman in Central Park earlier this week. Jonathan Robles, 36, was arraigned from the hospital Thursday morning on a charge of second-degree murder. Prosecutor Harrison Schweiloch said an indictment has been filed against Robles. He is expected to appear in court later this month. The judge ordered that Robles be held in custody without bail for now. Robles' defense attorney Mitchell Schuma
A Brooklyn jail cell filled with smoke. The emergency button failed, a lawyer said. (opens the original)
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Emergency buttons that allow detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center to call for help when they’re locked in their cells have often malfunctioned or been ignored for years, according to court records and close observers of the jail, most recently in an incident where two detainees were trapped as smoke filled their cells. Earlier this month, two detainees at the infamous federal jail in Sunset Park repeatedly hit an emergency button as smoke filled their locked cell, but no one responded
A Bronx rape went unsolved for 20 years. Genetic genealogy helped crack the case. (opens the original)
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For more than two decades after a stranger raped a 21-year-old college student in her Bronx apartment, police could not solve the crime. But a few years ago, as part of a new investigative technique, prosecutors say they found the DNA profile of one of the rapist’s distant relatives on a genealogical site. Through that profile, law enforcement was able to match the relative to a DNA sample from the crime scene. The NYPD’s forensic lab built out the family tree and used it to crack the long-unsol
25 years after 9/11, 3 New Yorkers listen back to their younger selves (opens the original)
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After terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in 2001, killing about 2,700 New Yorkers, WNYC reporters hit the streets with their microphones to cover the aftermath. Young audio journalists in WNYC’s Radio Rookies also made audio essays as a way of processing the 9/11 attacks. Three New Yorkers who shared their experiences in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 listened back to those recordings and shared their reflections 25 years later. They recalled a mix of fear and healing, isolation and sol
Case dismissed against NJ man accused of fatally punching stranger at Penn Station (opens the original)
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A Manhattan judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal case against a New Jersey man accused by law enforcement of fatally punching a stranger at Penn Station. The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged Nassadir Tate, 22, with third-degree assault in Eweka Johnson's death on March 14. Prosecutors said Tate punched Johnson one time in the face after a brief verbal argument on the uptown E train platform. Johnson died shortly after. Prosecutors asked a judge to drop the charge against Tate aft
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