In July of 2009, a Long Island motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker was found dead in his car, parked in Harlem, with his "hands tied behind his back and a cord wrapped around his neck and tied to the headrest," with stab wounds in the chest. But when police arrested Kenneth Minor (he was taking money out of Locker's account) and charged him with Locker's murder, Minor claimed that Locker wanted his help to die. However, a jury didn't buy that claim and found Minor guilty of murder in the second-degree. more ›

You may recall the strange, sad death of Jeffrey Locker, a failed motivational speaker who was drowning in debt when his dead body was found in his car in Harlem in July 2009. The man accused of killing him, Kenneth Minor, has claimed since the day he was arrested that Locker hired him to help him commit suicide and make it look like a murder so his family could collect insurance money. After looking into Locker's actions leading up to his death, investigators eventually came to believe Minor, and prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder. But Minor's lawyers insist he's only guilty of manslaughter, and his fate could hinge on how the jury interprets the state's assisted suicide law. more ›

An ex-con charged with brutally murdering and robbing a Long Island life coach is using a fictitious sounding "assisted suicide" defense—the strangest part is he may be telling the truth. "This man came to Harlem looking for a person to take him out. This man was asking everyone in Harlem to kill him," the defendant's sister told the Daily News last year. Now, as the court finds more and more evidence to support the unlikely story, charges against Kenneth Minor may be downgraded. more ›

Hoping to back up her brother's claim that he killed a motivational speaker to help him commit suicide, Kenneth Minor's sister Susan tells the Daily News, "This man, Locker, came to Harlem looking for a person to take him out. This man was asking everyone in Harlem to kill him." more ›