The body of a 17-year-old high school student was found in the closet of a Bronx apartment, and it's believed that Luzbenet Ramirez was stabbed to death by her friend's jealous boyfriend. Jose Mendez, who was recently released from jail for beating his girlfriend Rosanna Castro, allegedly confessed to the killing, because he thought Ramirez was involved with Castro. more ›

According to 1010 WINS, a 29-year-old man was splashed with hydrochloric acid in an Upper East Side apartment around 6 a.m. this morning: "Authorities say the victim had gone to 354 East 78th Street Thursday night see a woman he met online. At around 6:20 a.m., the woman’s boyfriend arrived home and found the pair together." The boyfriend was apparently not happy and threw acid at the online date. The boyfriend, 37, fled and police are looking for him. Yesterday, it was reported that a man threw a bucket of bleach on his ex-girlfriend and her toddler son in Queens last week. Update: The Daily News' report on the UES acid attack, "A 29-year-old man was doused with acid by the jealous boyfriend of a transgendered teen on the upper East Side Friday morning, police said..." more ›

A New Jersey man has been arrested after attempting to light a man and a 10-year-old boy on fire with gasoline and a flare. A man was walking his son to school in Jersey City on Friday when 39-year-old Tracy Ferguson allegedly ran out from between two parked cars and threw gasoline on them. He then attempted to light a flare, but was unsuccessful. more ›

The man who strangled the daughter of two NYU professors pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday in exchange for a 25 year prison sentence. Michael Cordero apologized, "I just want to let the family know I'm really sorry... I know this is nothing to them, but I'm really sorry. If I could take it back, I would," —and also added, "I'll never do it again." more ›

A Brooklyn man confessed to cops that he’d stabbed his girlfriend to death and murdered her two male lovers, after walking in on them during sex, but now they doubt the story. Officers found John Brandon standing over Deborah Blount's bloody body in their bedroom; he told them he’d chopped up the two other corpses and disposed of the parts in New Jersey. But after watching surveillance footage captured near the home—at Eastern Parkway and St. Johns Place—police found no evidence the two men actually existed. more ›

Maureen Steeves died yesterday at Brookhaven Hospital, days after her husband David Steeves was arrested for poisoning her with cyanide that he allegedly poured in her coffee two weeks ago. It seems likely that a grand jury will now up the attempted murder charges against him to homicide. Steeves pleaded not guilty and was denied bail. He's now being held in isolation in a Riverhead jail. The couple's two teenage sons, whom Steeves shared the web sites where he learned about cyanide with, are staying with their late mother's brother for the time being. more ›

The Suffolk County police say that David Steeves admitted to poisoning his estranged wife. Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said, "It all happened since he told her he was gay... He told us that he didn't want to see her with anyone else." On Oct. 18, Steeves apparently put cyanide (bought on the Internet) in Maureen Steeves' coffee and left the house. When he returned, she was on the floor and he brought her to the hospital. Two days later, he took their sons to England; police arrested him today at a bank near JFK Airport. Steeves' lawyer said his client was innocent, "He says the police roughed him up and forced him to give a confession." However, police say that Steeves "looked at Web sites that showed among other things if cyanide would show up in an autopsy." Maureen Steeves is still in the hospital; charges against him will likely be upgraded if she dies. more ›

New York magazine has an extraordinary cover story on the life of Brooke Astor, months after the "doyenne" of the city's social scene passed away. It is a sordid tale of jealousy, greed, enmity, conflicting agendas, and familial conflict worthy of the most outlandish soap opera. Her son Tony is now under i investigation by a grand jury and control of her estate has passed to Astor's friend Annette de la Renta. The litany of... more ›