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Investigators tell the Daily News that the man found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment probably met his killer online. The News reports that Michael Pecora's sister had called his cell phone, only for a stranger to answer: "The man with Pecora's cell phone was a cab driver, who told the sister he was given the phone earlier in the week by a passenger who said he didn't have any money to pay the fare, sources said. The passenger gave the cab driver the phone and a watch as payment when he was dropped off in the Bronx." The sister contacted the police, who then questioned the cabbie. The cabbie recalled the fare was carrying a laptop—and Pecora's laptop was missing from his Forest Hills home—leading police to suspect the killer stole the computer to cover his tracks.
Cops: Man Stabbed To Death Probably Met Attacker Online
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A friend told me of police abuse of a homeless person this morning on the 1 at 168 st. Apparently,
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Note to self: Take laptop when leaving victim's house.
So, this is like a thing now? Wasn't the radio guy killed by some psycho twink he met online?
Is any individual or organization tracking the number of murders attributable to online "meetings." If not, they should.
Laptops are stolen all the time, and the guy also took the phone and apparently the watch. Seems like kind of leap to think that taking the laptop means they met online.
I don't recall the name and of meeting this person, yet I know of the building he lived in which is poorly designed and has poor security. There was another incident in this very building in modern times. It is on the Forest Hills / Rego Park border.
According to LinkedIn there was a University of Tampa Grad with the same name who worked as a Vice President of Citigroup and I believe this is him. Apparently the apartment was valued at approx 300,000+ so it must have been a large apartment since apartments in that building are cheaper than other sections.
It seems odd that someone would buy an apartment on this side in a building with poor security but sometimes people don't think clearly and this can lead to incidents like this when they don't plan ahead.
There is another person who lived in the Bronx with the same name. Allegedly the cab drove the man to the Bronx and wound up with his cellphone and his laptop.
Considering this case, this was premeditated. There was extensive thought going on in this case itself.
If the laptop and cellphone were found, it means that this case was not a case which involved burglery. Also to date while the hate crime angle has been suggested, there has been no evidence to suggest this. If you were doing a hate crime, you would not have gone thru all the effort that was done here if you take the history of those cases.
If this person was working for Citicorp Commercial Bank as per Linkedin if it is the same person, my own guess is that this case was a murder involving work that was being done at the firm itself with clients or whatnot and likely involves activity at Citicorp Commercial Bank or was a target because of activity he was involved with.
Unfortunately I would not have access to such. This is the 2nd murder in Forest Hills in recent times post the Malakov case which shook up the community.
I will say this:
Security in that building was horrific from day one and I honestly believed had he lived in another building with better security and the like he would be alive today.
I myself had entered that building when I first moved to the area when I looked at buildings. What I saw literally horrified me. With the price he paid, he could have bought a decent unit in another building and would have been fine.
I meant that the prime motive was burglery. Obviously he stole the phone to use as cab fare and I believe the cab driver said he had his laptop with him. He obviously stole the items. But the question is why would someone planning a murder take a cab back and forth and give a phone for cab fare and keep the laptop.
A phone can be used to track a victims whereabouts. A cellphone proved that in the last murder here that the shooter was the one who made the phone calls.
Lets hope a suspect is found soon.