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NY Cops Seek Hooker in Holocaust Survivor Killing

90-year-old found bound, beaten in home

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 1, 2009 7:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – New York police suspect a prostitute and her male cohort of strangling a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor at his Upper East Side apartment this week, the New York Post reports. The pair allegedly stole a car and credit cards from Felix Brinkmann, who periodically brought prostitutes home and, during the Holocaust, was ordered to the gas chamber five times—but survived each time because of his electrical engineering skills.

Yesterday, cops pulled six bags of evidence, including a safe, from Brinkmann’s home. The suspects “must have tied him up and beat him trying to get him to open the safe, and he didn't, so they killed him,” a Brinkmann friend and former NYPD detective told the New York Daily News. “Knowing him, he probably told them, ‘I did five years in Auschwitz! You'll get nothing from me!’”

This undated photo provided by Richard 'Bo' Dietl shows a young Guido Felix Brinkmann.
This undated photo provided by Richard 'Bo' Dietl shows a young Guido Felix Brinkmann.   (AP Photo/Courtesy of Richard 'Bo' Dietl)
This photo provided by Richard 'Bo' Dietl shows Guido Felix Brinkmann in New York in the early 1970s.
This photo provided by Richard 'Bo' Dietl shows Guido Felix Brinkmann in New York in the early 1970s.   (AP Photo/Courtesy ofRichard 'Bo' Dietl)
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jagerhans
Aug 2, 2009 12:36 PM CDT
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Aug 2, 2009 9:35 AM CDT
The newser editors tell us on the Facebook page that changes will be coming on Monday. Let's hope one of them is the installation of an "ignore" button that let's us block posts from Jayster999 from displaying on our screens. Not a day too soon for me. He is reaching new lows every day with his nauseating comments. It's almost as if he wants to be blocked from the site.
Shannonals
Aug 2, 2009 8:26 AM CDT
And you whine and complain about how your not a racist Jayster.

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