Shrink Killer Suspect Acts Up at Hearing

Police hunt killer who wielded meat cleaver in furious assault

(NEWSER) - Police are urgently hunting an unidentified man who walked into a New York psychologist's office Tuesday night and hacked her to death with a meat cleaver. Another doctor, who came to her rescue, was also slashed and left in critical condition, the New York Post reports. The killer pinned him to the wall with a chair, took his driver's license and $90 from his wallet, and warned him: "I know where you live." More»

Jerome Isaac jailed without bail yesterday

(NEWSER) - Should Jerome Isaac want to plead not guilty in the murder of Delores Gillespie, who was burned alive in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building on Saturday, a wrench: On top of the fact that the crime was caught on video, his face is also horribly burned. The New York Post reports on Isaac's appearance in court yesterday, in which prosecutor Kenneth Taub noted that, "The evidence of this particularly heinous and brutal murder is beyond question. When he was arrested, he was reeking of accelerant ... The burns on his body are consistent with the images." More»

(NEWSER) - A mob hitman who used acid to melt his victims' bodies has been sentenced to life, reports the New York Daily News. Charles Carneglia smirked in a Brooklyn courtroom as he listened to statements from his four victims' relatives, including one who called him an "animal" with a "dark soul." Carneglia "led a profane life; his sole role in the Gambino family was to kill and dispose of bodies," said the prosecutor. "He relished the job." Carneglia claimed "liar after liar" testified against him. More»

(NEWSER) - A flamboyant, high-profile New Jersey gang lawyer has been charged with murder for his role in the death of a key witness against his clients, according to law enforcement authorities. Former prosecutor Paul Bergrin, 53, is accused of leaking the name of a confidential witness to gang members who shot him dead in the street, and of hiring a hitman to target another witness, reports the New York Times. He has also been charged with coaching witnesses to lie and paying others to leave town. More»

Found dead in bed with stab wounds to chest, neck

(NEWSER) - A longtime ABC radio newsman was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn home yesterday, reports the New York Daily News. George Weber, 47, was dead in his bed with wounds in his chest and neck, police said. His apartment was ransacked, but there was no sign of forced entry. Weber was well known in the city from his work on WABC morning radio, but had recently begun working for ABC's national radio network. More»