Cops Hunt Mysterious Female in Motivational Speaker Murder

Police continue to hone in on the woman that Long Island motivational speaker Jeff Locker contacted in East Harlem and is believed to be one of the suspects in the brutal murder that took place while he was being robbed inside his car Thursday morning. The woman along with two men, all described as black and in their mid-20s, were captured on surveillance video while they withdrew from Locker's bank account $200 each at seven different neighborhood ATMs. Yesterday the Post said that police believed the woman to be Locker's girlfriend; today the Daily News is quoting police sources that say it's a prostitute Locker had called from his cell and they're looking for. The paper also gets a graphic description from a mortician who arrived at Locker's body inside his car and tells them, "I knocked on the window to see if he was asleep or doped up or whatever. I saw his mouth open...His shirt had a bunch of holes and there was blood. The blood was dried. His head was back. His hands were tied behind his back. He was pale."

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By Billy Parker in News on July 19, 2009 4:20 PM

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roygbiv

What a fascinating take most of you morons concentrate on. If your brains were as erudite as your grammar, you could probably rule the world.

I knew Jeff, worked with him a number of years ago, and received good value for my investment. He was a decent guy, and whether he was with a hooker or not, he didn't deserve to die for a lapse in good judgement.

Just be careful when YOU open YOUR closet that the skeletons are well-hidden. I don't think any of us could live our lives on the front page of the New York Times.

BklynsFinest

maybe his wife and Steve McNair's can start a support group? Oh! and then become motivational speakers!

ak

No doubt this guy had problems, but nobody deserves to die like that. And nobody's spouse deserves to find out her husband isn't the guy she thought he was through his brutal murder.

Sad news all around.

nyorker555

"hookering up" ?

ak

It's like hooking up with a hooker. Get it?

As for "the fasting growing group in new AIDS cases" (maybe the fastest growing group that also happens to not eat for days at the same time?) and the random caps and punctuation, I'm just as lost as you are. I trust the validity of bts220's statistics as much as I trust Cheyenne Jeudy's Twitter stream for spell checking.

bts220

I dont understand how someone can be so stupid.hookering up with a black prostitute at 330am in housing project in harlem will only lead to trouble. the stats also show black women are the fasting growing group in new AIDS cases in the city partly because many black men are closet homos and are into thug on thug hookups and also because SHES A HOOKER Stupid Moron Hope he had nice life insurance policy for his family and his poor wife needs to run out and get AIDS Test

Snoopy

Are you sure about your facts? 330AM, housing project, Harlem, black prostitute, AIDS, black men, homos, thugs.

wowthatsucks

I was so hoping that was Billy Crystal. Oh well.

NannyState

You're evil. I like that.

Past Taliban

STILL a more dignified death than croaking while jerking off in the closet with a noose around the neck.

Dwayne Hoover

This story is Donny Darko all the way.

Enough!

Snoopy

New headline.

"Motivational Speaker does not talk himself out of a simple misunderstanding." Wife disappointed at news that she finally realized the guy was basically a bullshitter with a receding hairline and a scumball.

Quidnam

Simple misunderstanding? These fuckers were willing to kill for $1,400. That doesn't represent a lack of motivation.

ANGRYGOD11

I am truly saddened at the death of this man.

I am so sick of seeing this picture.

He looks like a bad 80's sitcom sidekick.

NattyB

Why did someone kill cousin larry? Does someone know Balkie's last whereabouts?

hubcap

for real

hubcap

totally

jaycjay

Since he was 52 when he died and looks to be in his 30s in that photo, that's probably about when the shot was taken.

NannyState

I bet that photo was taken last week. You know what all these motivational speakers have in common? Denial. Deny your true age, deny your double life, deny your douchiness, deny, deny, deny....