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Prison Nurse Rapes Inmate At Northern Westchester Facility, Police Say
A Connecticut man employed as a nurse at a New York prison is charged with raping an inmate, police say. The incident was originally reported by New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Northern Westchester in September 2022, state police said. This report prompted an investigation that eventually determined that 54-year-old Waterbury resident Michael Adeleke had allegedly raped an inmate. Adeleke was then arrested and charged with third-degree rape on Wednesday, March 1. He…
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2 Northern Westchester Prisons Involved In Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against New York
Two women's prisons in Northern Westchester are involved in a civil lawsuit being filed against the state of New York alleging that several incidents of sexual assaults happened at the facilities. The two prisons named in the lawsuit, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Taconic Correctional Facility, both located in Bedford, will be part of a series of civil actions alleging that at least 750 individuals were sexually assaulted while in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, according to an announcement by Slater Slater Schulman LLP from We…
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Convicted Westchester 'Fatal Attraction' Killer Carolyn Warmus Out Of Prison
After serving 27 years for murdering her lover’s wife in a case that attracted national attention and which was chronicled in two movies, Carolyn Warmus is now a free woman. The former Westchester County school teacher at the center of the notorious 1989 "Fatal Attraction" slaying, was released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, on Monday, June 17 after having been granted parole last month. Warmus reportedly plans on living in the New York City area. Warmus, now 55, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1992 for fatally shooting Greenburgh resident Betty Jeanne Solomon, the…
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Inmate Who Pushed Woman To Her Death In Front Of Train Commits Suicide At Bedford Hills
New York State Police are investigating the apparent suicide of an inmate at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Melaine T. Liverpool, 33, was found dead around 3:44 a.m., Wednesday, May 8, at the facility located at 247 Harris Road in Bedford, said Trooper AJ Hicks. Liverpool was sentenced a month ago to 20 years to life in prison for pushing a Queens woman in front of a train at the Times Square Station more than two years ago. Diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Liverpool admitted to officials to fatally shoving 49-year-old Connie Watton of Queens in front of a southbound No. 1 train on …
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Death Of 33-Year-Old Inmate At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Under Investigation
Click here for an updated story: Inmate Who Pushed Woman To Her Death In Front Of Train Commits Suicide At Bedford Hills An investigation has been opened following the death of a 33-year-old inmate at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, according to state police. Troopers from the Somers barracks conducted a joint investigation with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Office of Special Investigations after the incident on Wednesday, May 8. Police say the investigation determined that the inmate, identified as 33-year-old Melanie Liverpool, was …
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Convicted Westchester 'Fatal Attraction' Killer Carolyn Warmus Granted Parole
In a case that attracted national attention and which has been chronicled in two movies, the former Westchester school teacher who killed her lover’s wife in the notorious 1989 "Fatal Attraction" slaying has been granted parole. Carolyn Warmus, now 55, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1992 for fatally shooting Greenburgh resident Betty Jeanne Solomon, the wife of Warmus' lover, Paul Solomon, nine times in the back. Warmus is scheduled to be released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility as early as June 10, the state Department of Corrections announced Friday, May 3. …
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Court Nixes Review Of Lacey Spears Murder Conviction
A former Rockland County woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her son lost a bid on Friday in the New York State Court of Appeals to have her murder conviction reviewed, according to Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. Lacey Spears, who lived in Chestnut Ridge, was convicted in March 2015 of killing her 5-year-old son Garnett-Paul Spears while he was a patient at Westchester Medical Center by injecting large amounts of salt into his feeding tube, according to the DA's office. “I am extremely pleased that the State’s highest court has declined…