...and this one blew me away! From the NY Times... Who'da fuck would do something like this? Sick fuck! I hope they get him, they gotta get this guy! He's a fuckin' freak! A real sick bastard!
Maybe some Brookyn vigilantes will grab the motherfucker and set his ass on fire ta teach him a lesson...permanent like! Burn him ta death so he knows what it's like ta go out that way!
Woman Is Burned Alive in an Elevator in Brooklyn
NYPD
Police released stills from the surveillance video of the attack seeking to identify the man they say incinerated a woman in an elevator in a Brooklyn apartment building.
The surveillance video, its images disturbingly clear, ends with a woman being burned alive in the elevator of a Brooklyn apartment building on Saturday.
But in the beginning, it seemed routine: a man dressed as an exterminator, wearing gloves, with a protective mask perched atop his head and carrying a container on his back, takes the elevator to the fifth floor.
Sometime later, an older woman carrying groceries took the same ride to the fifth floor.
Two cameras recording from different positions, one inside the small tiled elevator and another in a hallway, show the doors open and the man with the container approach. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists.
Having cornered the woman in the elevator, the man struggles to light a barbecue lighter. He then ignites a Molotov cocktail a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck. He retreats and comes back again, spraying more liquid on his victim. And suddenly the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space: the woman, on fire.
Investigators are poring over the footage, a disturbing silent film capturing what is perhaps a singular act of violence: a woman being burned alive.
The crime took place Saturday afternoon at 203 Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights. Detectives and fire marshals were reviewing the footage and interviewing neighbors.
The police identified the victim as Doris Gillespie, 64. One neighbor said that Ms. Gillespie was a postal worker.
As of early Sunday morning, there had been no arrests, but investigators were already following a major lead: the man appeared to have been burned on his face and hands. Investigators immediately began looking for him at local hospitals.
The Police Department released photographs of the suspect, taken from the video, late Saturday night.
Firefighters and the police arrived about 4 p.m. after callers to 911 reported fire and smoke in the building, unaware of what had happened in the elevator.
A resident of the fifth floor, John, 29, who would not give his last name, said he had heard screaming and saw smoke coming from the elevator. I thought it was kids because the screaming was high-pitched, he said. I looked out the door and saw smoke coming out of the elevator.
Residents were evacuated from the building after the fire. Hours later, some, like Maria Daley, wept while sitting on a city bus that had been provided for the displaced tenants. She was my friend, Ms. Daley said. I just spoke to her yesterday.
Another neighbor, Heidi Matthews, 46, said Ms. Gillespie had given her a plant on Mothers Day. Its hard to believe somebody would do that to her, she said.
We all loved her, Ms. Matthews said. She was a part of this neighborhood for years.
Tim Stelloh contributed reporting.
The Krink said
4:15 AM, 12/18/11
Guess it's one of those "1000 ways to die" things. When it's your day to "go", "they" make sure it happens. Interesting to note "who they are". You have your own "they". "They" are your help to get you where you need to go. "They" also know your departure date that you selected.
DramaQueen said
8:33 AM, 12/18/11
That guy sounds pretty organized...but he was or is thinking it is the beginning of a murder spree. Sicko!
Calvin said
1:03 PM, 12/18/11
"Copy Cat" of the NYC Subway robber a few years back. Recreated in the movie "Money Train". Only motive was robbing the clerks of cash in the subway. This freak seems ta get off watching people burn for free.
Uke said
1:29 AM, 12/19/11
Turned himself in he did. And he may be lucky that some vigilantes didn't nail him first...
NYC Police: Suspect Says Woman Set Afire Over Debt
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR Associated Press
NEW YORK December 19, 2011 (AP)
As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His face was one her neighbors later recognized, and that she surely must have.
Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and a dust mask, which was perched atop his head. The sprayer was full of flammable liquid.
When the elevator opened Saturday afternoon, the man sprayed the 73-year-old woman "sort of methodically" over her head and parts of her body as her bags of groceries draped off her arms, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. She crouched down to try to protect herself, he said.
Then, Browne said, the attacker pulled out a barbecue-style lighter and used it to ignite a rag in a bottle. He waited a few seconds as Gillespie huddled on the floor. Then he backed out of the elevator and tossed the flaming bottle in.
Neighbors in the Prospect Heights building had no idea a woman was being burned alive when they quickly reported a fire.
Overnight, a 47-year-old man smelling of gasoline went into a police station and implicated himself in Gillespie's death, Browne said. The suspect, Jerome Isaac, told police he set her on fire because she owed him $2,000 for some work he had done for her, Browne said.
Isaac, of Brooklyn, was arrested Sunday on murder and arson charges. The Brooklyn district attorney's office had no information on whether he had an attorney.
When Jaime Holguin, who lives on the same floor as Gillespie, saw surveillance pictures of the attacker he said, "Oh, my God!"
Holguin, the manager of news development for The Associated Press, said the man in the surveillance pictures looked like a man who had lived with Gillespie for about six months last year and appeared to have been helping her out. He was certain Isaac was the man who worked for Gillespie after seeing post-arrest pictures of the suspect.
Gillespie's arrangement with Isaac appeared to have ended by early 2011, but months later Holguin started seeing the man nearby on the street, looking "a lot more disheveled" and pushing a cart full of aluminum cans.
Browne said that after setting Gillespie ablaze, Isaac set another fire at his own apartment building nearby, then hid on a roof before turning himself in to police.
Residents were evacuated and kept away from the six-story building for hours Saturday night as police investigated. On Sunday, Holguin said, the fifth floor was a mess, with a melted elevator door and a layer of water on the floor.
Holguin said he and his girlfriend had taken the elevator on their way out of the building shortly before the attack. They didn't see anyone on the floor with them but did notice an odd smell, as if someone was painting, he said.
Holguin said police told them later that the assailant was already in the building and perhaps had hidden on another floor when they left their apartment.
He remembered Gillespie as nice but sometimes a little off. "At least with me, some days she'd be very, very pleasant, and then the next time, she would almost ignore me," he said.
Gillespie also went through a period this year where she would place duct tape over her apartment door whenever she left, Holguin said.
As for the man who worked for Gillespie, Holguin said they had exchanged hellos and occasionally talked about Holguin's dog.
...and this one blew me away! From the NY Times... Who'da fuck would do something like this? Sick fuck! I hope they get him, they gotta get this guy! He's a fuckin' freak! A real sick bastard!
Maybe some Brookyn vigilantes will grab the motherfucker and set his ass on fire ta teach him a lesson...permanent like! Burn him ta death so he knows what it's like ta go out that way!
Woman Is Burned Alive in an Elevator in Brooklyn
Police released stills from the surveillance video of the attack seeking to identify the man they say incinerated a woman in an elevator in a Brooklyn apartment building.
By SARAH MASLIN NIR and AL BAKER
Published: December 17, 2011
The surveillance video, its images disturbingly clear, ends with a woman being burned alive in the elevator of a Brooklyn apartment building on Saturday.
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But in the beginning, it seemed routine: a man dressed as an exterminator, wearing gloves, with a protective mask perched atop his head and carrying a container on his back, takes the elevator to the fifth floor.
Sometime later, an older woman carrying groceries took the same ride to the fifth floor.
Two cameras recording from different positions, one inside the small tiled elevator and another in a hallway, show the doors open and the man with the container approach. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists.
Having cornered the woman in the elevator, the man struggles to light a barbecue lighter. He then ignites a Molotov cocktail a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck. He retreats and comes back again, spraying more liquid on his victim. And suddenly the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space: the woman, on fire.
Investigators are poring over the footage, a disturbing silent film capturing what is perhaps a singular act of violence: a woman being burned alive.
The crime took place Saturday afternoon at 203 Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights. Detectives and fire marshals were reviewing the footage and interviewing neighbors.
The police identified the victim as Doris Gillespie, 64. One neighbor said that Ms. Gillespie was a postal worker.
As of early Sunday morning, there had been no arrests, but investigators were already following a major lead: the man appeared to have been burned on his face and hands. Investigators immediately began looking for him at local hospitals.
The Police Department released photographs of the suspect, taken from the video, late Saturday night.
Firefighters and the police arrived about 4 p.m. after callers to 911 reported fire and smoke in the building, unaware of what had happened in the elevator.
A resident of the fifth floor, John, 29, who would not give his last name, said he had heard screaming and saw smoke coming from the elevator. I thought it was kids because the screaming was high-pitched, he said. I looked out the door and saw smoke coming out of the elevator.
Residents were evacuated from the building after the fire. Hours later, some, like Maria Daley, wept while sitting on a city bus that had been provided for the displaced tenants. She was my friend, Ms. Daley said. I just spoke to her yesterday.
Another neighbor, Heidi Matthews, 46, said Ms. Gillespie had given her a plant on Mothers Day. Its hard to believe somebody would do that to her, she said.
We all loved her, Ms. Matthews said. She was a part of this neighborhood for years.
Tim Stelloh contributed reporting.
to "go", "they" make sure it happens. Interesting to note "who they are".
You have your own "they". "They" are your help to get you where you
need to go. "They" also know your departure date that you selected.
"Copy Cat" of the NYC Subway robber a few years back. Recreated in the movie "Money Train". Only motive was robbing the clerks of cash in the subway. This freak seems ta get off watching people burn for free.
Turned himself in he did. And he may be lucky that some vigilantes didn't nail him first...
NYC Police: Suspect Says Woman Set Afire Over Debt
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR Associated Press
As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His face was one her neighbors later recognized, and that she surely must have.
Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and a dust mask, which was perched atop his head. The sprayer was full of flammable liquid.
When the elevator opened Saturday afternoon, the man sprayed the 73-year-old woman "sort of methodically" over her head and parts of her body as her bags of groceries draped off her arms, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. She crouched down to try to protect herself, he said.
Then, Browne said, the attacker pulled out a barbecue-style lighter and used it to ignite a rag in a bottle. He waited a few seconds as Gillespie huddled on the floor. Then he backed out of the elevator and tossed the flaming bottle in.
Neighbors in the Prospect Heights building had no idea a woman was being burned alive when they quickly reported a fire.
Overnight, a 47-year-old man smelling of gasoline went into a police station and implicated himself in Gillespie's death, Browne said. The suspect, Jerome Isaac, told police he set her on fire because she owed him $2,000 for some work he had done for her, Browne said.
Isaac, of Brooklyn, was arrested Sunday on murder and arson charges. The Brooklyn district attorney's office had no information on whether he had an attorney.
When Jaime Holguin, who lives on the same floor as Gillespie, saw surveillance pictures of the attacker he said, "Oh, my God!"
Holguin, the manager of news development for The Associated Press, said the man in the surveillance pictures looked like a man who had lived with Gillespie for about six months last year and appeared to have been helping her out. He was certain Isaac was the man who worked for Gillespie after seeing post-arrest pictures of the suspect.
Gillespie's arrangement with Isaac appeared to have ended by early 2011, but months later Holguin started seeing the man nearby on the street, looking "a lot more disheveled" and pushing a cart full of aluminum cans.
Browne said that after setting Gillespie ablaze, Isaac set another fire at his own apartment building nearby, then hid on a roof before turning himself in to police.
Residents were evacuated and kept away from the six-story building for hours Saturday night as police investigated. On Sunday, Holguin said, the fifth floor was a mess, with a melted elevator door and a layer of water on the floor.
Holguin said he and his girlfriend had taken the elevator on their way out of the building shortly before the attack. They didn't see anyone on the floor with them but did notice an odd smell, as if someone was painting, he said.
Holguin said police told them later that the assailant was already in the building and perhaps had hidden on another floor when they left their apartment.
He remembered Gillespie as nice but sometimes a little off. "At least with me, some days she'd be very, very pleasant, and then the next time, she would almost ignore me," he said.
Gillespie also went through a period this year where she would place duct tape over her apartment door whenever she left, Holguin said.
As for the man who worked for Gillespie, Holguin said they had exchanged hellos and occasionally talked about Holguin's dog.