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Twenty years ago yesterday, a 28-year-old investment banker was jogging in Central Park when she was brutally beaten and raped. The Daily News recently wrote that the crime "crystallized the feeling that New York was out of control" and sparked racial tensions, as five black and Hispanic teens, accused of being a "wolf pack" of teens "wilding" in the park, were arrested, convicted and served time for the crime. And then, in 2002, a convicted killer admitted he was the real attacker; after his DNA matched DNA evidence from the crime, the Manhattan DA's moved to vacate the falsely imprisoned five's convictions.

The five teenagers once accused of rape in the Central Park Jogger case are planning to sue the city for $50 million each. The five were released from prison in 2002 after the DNA of Matias Reyes was found at the scene of the crime and Reyes confessed. A 2003 NYPD report though still says that the five men "most likely" were involved with the crime. The teenagers had previously confessed to the 1989 rape and their lawyer Roger Wareham says that the suit will uncover how "diabolically" detectives worked to force it out of them. "If the city refuses to settle, we are going to relive the whole racial climate of 1989," said Wareham.

Robberies are down a little more than 8% from a year ago, but the New York Post reports that some spots around town have seen stunning jumps in the incidence rate of muggings. In 18 of 76 precincts in NYC, robberies are heading up rather than down, like in the rest of the city. Assaults, however, are static citywide--increasing from 15,025 to 15,097 which is statistically insignificant. The increase in robberies is anomalous mostly because...

Trisha Meili, the woman who was brutally attacked and raped while jogging in Central Park in 1989, is no fan of Oprah Winfrey's line of questioning. Five years after she gave her first interview to Winfrey's magazine O, Meili spoke to NY1. First, here is an excerpt of the 2002 interview Meili (who did not disclose her name at that time) gave to Oprah:Oprah: When I first heard about you, I thought, why were you...

The Central Park Jogger is coming forward with her story: The Daily News previews Trisha Meili's steps to reveal her identity 14 years after the ordeal. The recent news about there being one rapist, versus five, and whether or not police procedure should be changed (although there were most likely mulitple attackers), made Meili actually go through the trauma, whereas she had been in a coma when it actually happened. I found this sentence pretty amazing:

I was surprised that all but one of the guys who were convicted of the 1989 Central Park Jogger rape and assault are out of prison already. In fact, most of them have been out for about six years, which is surprising given the seriousness of the charges. Of course, if they were innocent, serving seven years for something you didn't do is pretty unfair. CNN.com - Prosecutor: Drop all convictions in Central Park jogger case - Dec. 5, 2002