Michael McMorrow

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Michael McMorrow, 44 was a Manhattan real estate murder victim of peculiar circumstances in the early summer of 1997.

Christopher Vasquez, 15, and girlfriend Daphne Abdela, 15, daughter of CPC International executive Angelo Abdela, were drinking with McMorrow in Central Park late one evening. Abdela claimed to have met McMorrow during rehab.

McMorrow was found floating in Central Park lake, his hands removed and the contents of his wallet burned, his body slashed and stabbed upwards of fifty times.

At trial, both suspects told different stories, placing impetus and the act of murder on the other, though both claimed that there was no clear motive. Abdela was defended by attorney George Weinbaum Both parties were sentenced to ten years for manslaughter.

Abdela was released from prison January 16, 2004 at age twenty-one, Vasquez, 22, was released six days later, after serving more than 2/3 of their original sentence. Both werre denied parole twice.

[edit] External links

• "Body in Park Was Mutilated To Hide Identity, Officials Say", The New York Times, 1997-05-25. Retrieved on February 28, 2007.
• "Metro Briefing", The new York Times, 2004-01-22. Retrieved on February 28, 2007.