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NYC Love Triangle Triggers Murder-Suicide

Boyfriend kills lover and second beau, say cops

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 8, 2009 5:57 AM CST
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(Newser) – A Manhattan love triangle ended tragically when a jealous lover killed a woman and her second boyfriend before committing suicide, the Daily News reports. The bodies were found by police yesterday in a tony apartment on the city's Upper West Side, with the killer slumped in a chair, a 9-mm. handgun in his lap, according to cops.

The woman, 46, was believed to be a cellist and her murdered boyfriend, 57, an actor, who has appeared in movies and on stage. One neighbor reported loud bangs and a scream to the doorman, who eventually called police, but other residents were not alarmed by the sounds. “You hear a lot of pop-pops" here, and "they’re not always a triple homicide,” a neighbor told the New York Times.

Bodies are removed from an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side yesterday.
Bodies are removed from an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side yesterday.   (AP Photo/David Karp)
A man identified as a relative of one of the victims leaves the apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York where three bodies of a woman and two men discovered yesterday.
A man identified as a relative of one of the victims leaves the apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York where three bodies of a woman and two men discovered yesterday.   (AP Photo/David Karp)
Members of the medical examiner's office remove bodies from the apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York where a woman and two men were found yesterday.
Members of the medical examiner's office remove bodies from the apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York where a woman and two men were found yesterday.   (AP Photo/David Karp)
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riffran
Feb 8, 2009 6:16 AM CST
sick, and tragic, what a shame

Three bodies found in Upper West Side apartment
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