Told over five episodes, the show unpacks each case and includes interviews with the detectives and prosecutors who investigated the murders, as well as survivors and families of the victims.
The five cases include the Carnegie Deli Murders, the Central Park Slaying, a woman who vanished while working on Wall Street, the Midtown Slasher, and the East Harlem Serial Killer.
Homicide: New York isn’t Wolf’s first foray into the true crime genre. In addition to creating the Law & Order , Chicago , and FBI franchises, Wolf created the network investigative shows Cold Justice and Nightwatch .
Want to learn more about the various killers investigated in the new series? Here’s everything you need to know.
Carnegie Deli Murders Photo: Netflix
On May 10, 2001, five people were shot by Andre Smith and Sean Salley in an apartment above the Carnegie Deli. Three of the victims died, one of whom was Dirty Dancing actor Jennifer Stahl. The two attackers seemingly intended to rob Stahl for the money she made through her business selling marijuana to her high-end clientele.
Salley and Smith were each found guilty of three counts of second-degree murder, four robbery, and two weapons counts. They both received a sentence of 120 years and are currently serving their sentences.
Central Park Slaying
Two 15-year-olds Daphne Abdela and Christopher Vasquez were convicted of the manslaughter of Michael McMorrow, whose body was found in Central Park Lake on May 23, 1997 with multiple slash and stab wounds. Per documents from the court case , McMorrow’s “abdomen had been cut open and part of his intestines were exposed.”
During the trial, Abdela took a plea deal and pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and Vasquez, her boyfriend at the time, was charged with the stabbing.
They each served about seven years in prison for manslaughter in the first degree and were released in 2004. As part of their parole, they were barred from seeing each other.
Vanished on Wall Street Photo: Netflix
Cleaner Eridania Rodriguez went missing on July 7, 2009 while working in an office building on Wall Street. Rodriquez’s coworker notified her family of her absence when she didn’t report for lunch. After multiple days of searching, Rodriquez was found “tied up” in an air conditioning vent in the office building. Police found DNA underneath her fingernails which matched Joseph Pabon, who worked as a maintenance man in the same building.
Pabon was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder in the second degree and kidnapping in the first degree. He is currently serving his sentence.
Midtown Slasher Photo: Netflix
On March 21, 1996, businessman Howard Pilmar was stabbed 48 times in his office in Manhattan. Pilmar’s wife, Roslyn Pilmar, and her brother, Evan Wald, were found guilty of the murder roughly 20 years later. The two were suspects from the beginning, but there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them until the case was reopened in 2013.
Pilmar and Wald were each found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Philip Pilmar, son of Howard and Roslyn Pilmar, asked for leniency for his mother during the trial.
East Harlem Serial Killer Photo: Netflix
Arohn Kee was arrested in 1999 for the murder of Rasheeda Washington, Paola Illera, and Johalis Castro, and four rapes. The assailant was caught after kidnapping 15-year-old Angelique Stalling from her home in Brooklyn. The two were found in a hotel room in Miami, Florida after which they were flown back to New York where Stalling returned home and Kee was charged for his crimes.
Kee was sentenced to 409 years to life in prison.
Homicide: New York is currently streaming on Netflix.
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