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26-07-2025
NYC police charge mother in deaths of newborn twins found behind building in 2020
NEW YORK -- A 36-year-old woman was charged Friday in the deaths of newborn twins who were found behind a New York City apartment building nearly five years ago, police said. Stephanie Castillo, identified as the boys' mother, was arrested at a homeless shelter in the Bronx, police said. She is charged with murder and manslaughter. The superintendent of a Bronx apartment building discovered the boys' bodies on Nov. 9, 2020, in the building's courtyard. The Medical Examiner determined the babies died from blunt force trauma. It was unknown whether Castillo, who was in custody Friday, had an attorney who could comment on her behalf. The case weighed heavily on New York City police officers, who were still looking for the person responsible for the babies' deaths when they were laid to rest nearly a year later. Police officers organized a funeral service for the infants, whom they named Zeke and Zane. They were placed in a single white casket, with officers serving as pallbearers at the service. 'You look at the way that the DNA technology has progressed over the last couple of years, and we are at the forefront of it,' Assistant Chief Michael Baldassano told 1010 Wins radio after the arrest. 'This case speaks to that.' Details of the investigation that led to Castillo's arrest were not immediately released.
New York Post
01-07-2025
- New York Post
Car found underwater at Long Island beach with human remains inside may be linked to 15-year-old missing persons case
A dive team found human remains inside a barnacle-covered car underwater at a Long Island beach — a discovery they think may be linked to a 15-year-old missing persons case. Dan Pritchard and his diving partner Bill McIntosh — who travel the world looking for missing people — found the remains inside a submerged Chrysler PT Cruiser at Cedar Beach in Mt. Sinai on Monday, prompting an investigation by Suffolk County Police. The pair believe the remains are Long Island native Robert Long, who went missing in December 2010 at the age of 62 while on a run to a local liquor store in a vehicle that fits the same description. Advertisement 3 Robert Long went missing in December 2010 at the age of 62. Facebook 'It's obviously a great relief when you identify the vehicle that you're looking for,' Pritchard told local radio station 1010 Wins. 'It is satisfying to know that we can give — hard as the answers are — to the family.' The pair used kayaks equipped with special side-scan sonar devices that helped look underwater, with McIntosh telling the outlet they had four locations to check and Cedar Beach just happened to be first on the list. Advertisement After several hours searching for Long, the pair found what appeared to be human bones in the car — immediately calling police, who conducted their own diving search. They later lifted the vehicle out of the water with a crane after confirming the human remains, according to police. 3 The pair found what appeared to be human bones in the sunken car. News 12 LI 'We started this morning with the Marine Bureau divers going into the water at low tide,' Suffolk police said. 'They examined the interior of the vehicle and tried to recover whatever they could from within the vehicle.' The remains have yet to be identified, and the Suffolk County Medical Examiner will determine the identity of the remains and perform an autopsy to determine a cause of death, the department said. Advertisement 'There is a missing person who we suspect this driver to be,' Detective Lt. Kevin Beyrer said Tuesday afternoon. 'We made a courtesy notification to the family, but we have not definitively made any sort of identification.' 3 Human remains found in sunken car by volunteer divers searching for Long Island man missing for 15 years. Please Help Find Bob Long Pritchard and McIntosh plan on spending the next few months scouring waterways up and down the East Coast in search of sunken vehicles — including several on Long Island. They believe the search could recover the remains of up to 50 missing people. Advertisement The discovery at Cedar Beach marked the third vehicle they've pulled up during this trip, and the 16th for McIntosh since he first got involved in 2020, the divers said. 'When you find a person, you bring them home and you're able to close a chapter in another person's life, a family's life,' McIntosh told Newsday. 'We give them hope.'
New York Post
23-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Mayor Adams expected to hold re-election campaign kickoff event Thursday: ‘Major announcement'
Mayor Eric Adams is expected to hold a re-election campaign kickoff event Thursday, two days after the city's Democratic mayoral primaries close. Hizzoner will make a 'major announcement about the future of his re-election campaign' at the event, according to sources from his campaign. The announcement will be held on the steps of City Hall at noon and will include 'hundreds' of supporters, sources said. Mayor Eric Adams is holding an event for a 'major announcement' about his re-election bid on Thursday William Farrington Adams, 64, will be running for re-election as an independent following a tumultuous year in office, which saw him accused of corruption before the historic case was dropped by the Trump administration. He blamed the long duration of the 'bogus' case for tanking any hopes of campaigning for the primary and still insists he is a Democrat, but has been indicating a split from the party for several months. The city's Democratic primary will close Tuesday, with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani battling out for the nomination amidst a large field of contenders. Adams is running on the line 'safe streets, affordable city,' arguing that those are the two areas New Yorkers are most concerned about. 'Those are the issues that are important to New Yorkers,' Adams told 1010Wins in April. 'They want a safe city. They want an affordable city. And I want them to know that is what I produced for them.' An Adams aide also may have violated city laws while publicizing the Thursday event after they blasted out a message promoting it from their government email, the Daily News reported. Local law prohibits city employees from using municipal resources for 'political activity,' the city's Conflicts of Interest Board states. The aide later told the Daily News they 'accidentally' sent the message from the wrong email account while multitasking.
