Man found guilty of kidnapping and then burning alive female college student,in NY
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Over in New York, 21 year old Nicholas Libretti has been found guilty of the
kidnapping and murder of a young female college student, Kimberly Antonakos.
Nicholas, along with two accomplices, kidnapped Kimberly with the intention of
extorting a ransom from her father. They abducted Kimberly from her house,
bound & gagged her, and took her to a vacant house. Once they had her there,
they tied her to a metal pole and began their extortion attempts. After three
days, they decided that no ransom money would be forthcoming. So, they went
back to the house, poured gasoline all over Kimberly, then poured gasoline all
over and around the basement where she was being kept tied up, and then they
set Kimberly on fire, while she was still alive and very possibly fully
conscious.
Needless to say, she burned to death. The other man involved in the
kidnapping, Joshua Torres, has already been found guilty and sentenced to 58
years to life in prison. The third accomplice was himself later killed by
these two, because they feared he would snitch them out to the cops.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's United Press International news
wire:
Conviction in NY student's arson murder
United Press International
Thu, 16 Oct 1997
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A 21-year-old Brooklyn man has been convicted of the
kidnapping and murder of a New York City college student who was bound, gagged
and then burned alive.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says the brutal killing was the tragic
end of a failed bid to collect a $75,000 ransom from her father.
Nicholas Libretti faces life in prison when he is sentenced on Nov. 13 for his
conviction on charges of murder, arson and kidnapping. Another man, Joshua
Torres, is already serving between 58 years to life in prison on his
conviction for ordering the kidnapping and killing.
A third man who allegedly helped Libretti kidnap and kill the young woman in
March, 1995, was killed several weeks after the crime.
When Libretti and Torres were arrested in September, 1996, Brown described the
crime as ``one of the most brutal and savage homicides that has ever occurred
in this country.''
Kimberly Antonakos was discovered burned to death inside a vacant house in the
Woodhaven section of Queens on March 5, 1995.
According to testimony in the two trials, early on March 1, 1995, Libretti and
Jose Negron abducted Antonakos from the driveway of her Brooklyn home, bound
and gagged her and threw her into the trunk of her car.
At the behest of Torres, the pair then took her to the vacant house where they
tied her to a metal pole for three days, while they unsucessfully tried to
contact her wealthy computer executive father to demand a $75,000 ransom for
her return.
``On March 4, having abandoned their ransom effort, they returned to the house,
poured gasoline on their victim and on the floor of the basement room where
she had been kept, set her on fire, killing her,'' Brown said.
Torres is also charged with later killing Negron, allegedly because he feared
his accomplice was about to provide information about the crime to police.
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Greg Carr
> Evil bastard spick!!!!
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK CITY
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK CITY; 2d Defendant in Murder By Fire Is Sentenced
Nov. 14, 1997
The second defendant in the 1995 murder of a 20-year-old Brooklyn woman who was tortured for three days and then burned alive in a botched kidnapping was sentenced to a long prison term yesterday.
Nicholas Libretti's sentence of 58 and one-third years to life, imposed by State Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Demakos, was identical to that given in December to his co-defendant, Joshua Torres.
Mr. Libretti was convicted on Oct. 16 of murder, kidnapping and arson in the death of Kimberly Antonakos.
Ms. Antonakos was a friend of Mr. Torres' girlfriend.
At Mr. Torres' behest, prosecutors said, Mr. Libretti and another man, Jose Negron, kidnapped Ms. Antonakos on March 1, 1995, left her tied in the basement of a Queens house and eventually set her on fire.
They tried to leave ransom demands on Mr. Antonakos's answering machine, prosecutors said, but neglected to wait for the beep before speaking. Mr. Negron was slain a few weeks later.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-new-york-city-2d-defendant-in-murder-by-fire-is-sentenced.html
Unfreaking believable. Unorganized unintelligent crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/16/nyregion/murder-verdict-is-father-s-last-gift.html has more.