Meanwhile, the true perpetrator of the crime, Matias (who was working as a deli clerk and living out of a van at the time), was free to keep committing his terrifying and violent crimes. DNA evidence found at the scene of the crime didn't match any of the five teens, but it made no difference - the general public had already decided them to be guilty. The first four boys were sentenced to five to 10 years in a youth correctional facility, and the fifth boy (16-year-old Korey) was five to 15 years in an adult prison. Four hours later, she was found, and the search for her attacker - or attackers - began.Īs is shown in the Netflix's Ava Duvernay-directed miniseries When They See Us, five young black and Latino boys named Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise were ultimately accused of committing the violent crime against the Central Park Jogger. Having been brutally raped and beaten (she suffered several skull fractures and a severe loss of blood), the Central Park Jogger, as she would soon become known, was left for dead in a park ravine.
Two days later, on April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old white investment banker named Trisha Meili was out jogging in Central Park when she was attacked in a similar fashion.
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New York Daily News Archive Getty Images The 1989 Central Park Jogger attack Unfortunately, that investigator was moved off the case shortly thereafter - and the victim moved away from from the city, never to be heard from by the New York Police Department again. And after putting out an inquiry to local hospitals, the sex crimes investigator on the case got a name: Matias Reyes. The victim of this brutal assault later told police that her attacker had what appeared to be fresh stitches on his chin. Mid-assault, he was spotted by passersby and fled from the scene. In April 1989, just before the widely publicized Central Park Jogger attack, Matias began beating and raping another 26-year-old woman in the northern part of Central Park. This woman was able to talk Matias out of raping her, and she walked away unharmed. In 1988, when he was just 17, he committed his first attempted rape, holding a 27-year-old woman at knife-point as he threatened to assault her. Matias was only a teenager when his brutal crime spree began. Getty Images Matias Reyes's early attacks
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