The Irish national who killed his ex-girlfriend, an NYPD lab tech, last year was sentenced to 29 to 37 years in prison. Gary McGurk, who pleaded guilty to murdering Michelle Lee last month, apologized to her family in court. According to the Daily News, he said, "I hope that in the years to come God will help you through this. Michelle is safe with him now. I don't ask for forgiveness because I don't deserve it..." more ›

Queens DA Richard Brown announced that the ex-boyfriend of a NYPD criminologist who was found dead in her Sunnyside apartment last year pleaded guilty to her murder. Gary McGurk, 24, told a judge yesterday, "I struck the victim Michelle Lee in the head with a hammer" four times, and, when asked what his relationship was with her, he answered, "Long-time friends, you honor." more ›

More details have emerged about the suspect killer of an NYPD investigator. Gary McGurk, an Irish national, was indicted on second degree murder charges related to the death of ex-girlfriend Michelle Lee. According to the NY Post, McGurk allegedly "used his forensic expertise to try covering his tracks by making her death look like a kinky sex crime." A police source said he left "a psychopathic crime scene to throw [cops] off his trail. He was pulling pieces from all sorts of different crimes into one scene." Eventually, McGurk apparently admitted he did scam Lee for money by claiming he had cancer, "I absolutely lied about the cancer. It was a means to an end for me," and that their sexual relations included "the bondage...the asphyxiation." McGurk's lawyer told the Daily News, "He denied it to me, he denied it to my partner, he denied it to police. Hopefully the truth will come out." more ›