True Crime NYC

Few situations exist in which one can draw a parallel to the men and women who lost their lives on 9/11. But, retired NYPD detective Michael Prate said one does stick out in his mind - the murder of Henryk Siwiak in Brooklyn during the last few minutes of that tragic day. Siwiak, 46, a recent Polish immigrant, was supposed to be at his first night at a new job at a grocery store in Brooklyn. He go...

Investigators unravel a murder-for-hire plot to kill a well-known mob associate, Sylvester Zottola, in New York City. They found a key piece of evidence under the hood of Zottola's car. That piece of evidence, along with cell phone text messages, led them to who killed the mob associate and why. This is Part 4 of a four-episode murder mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

Someone tried to kill mob associate Sylvester Zottola not just once or twice, but at least six different times. Almost all of the vicious attempts were captured on camera. He survived a beating, a shooting, and a throat slashing, only to be murdered doing something he did routinely every day. To his dying day, the father of three never suspected who was trying to kill him all along. This is Part 3...

Someone tried to kill mob associate Sylvester Zottola not just once or twice, but at least six different times. Almost all of the vicious attempts were captured on camera. He survived a beating, a shooting, and a throat slashing, only to be murdered doing something he did routinely every day. This is Part 2 of a four-episode murder mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...

Someone tried to kill mob associate Sylvester Zottola not just once or twice, but at least six different times. Almost all of the vicious attempts were captured on camera. He survived a beating, a shooting, and a throat slashing, only to be murdered doing something he did routinely every day. This is Part 1 of a four-episode murder mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...

An 83-year-old was caught on camera shopping in a motorized scooter with something unusual - a woman's severed leg. Harvey Marcelin is accused of killing her, cutting up her body, and dropping off parts across New York City. But it's not the first time Marcelin has been accused of murder. Marcelin was convicted of killing a girlfriend in 1963, and another girlfriend in 1985. After getting released...

An 83-year-old was caught on camera shopping in a motorized scooter with something unusual - a woman's severed leg. Harvey Marcelin is accused of killing her, cutting up her body, and dropping off parts across New York City. But it's not the first time Marcelin has been accused of murder. Marcelin was convicted of killing a girlfriend in 1963, and another girlfriend in 1985. After getting released...

Across the United States, thousands of unidentified human remains sit in local medical examiner's offices. Some of the remains are corpses - some are only bones, skeletons. In many cases, it's clear the people were murdered, but without knowing their identities their killers cannot be held accountable. Their murderers walk among us because their victims remain nameless. Eyewitness News investigati...

A non-profit from Oregon that specializes in finding missing people has come to Westchester to search for a mother and her two children who disappeared in 1977. Doug Bishop, with United Search Corps, heard about the case of Leslie Guthrie and Julie, 6, and Timmy, 3, who disappeared from Katonah 47 years ago. "Everything points to in this case it simply being an accident," Bishop said. Police said...

On a snowy day in February 1977, Leslie Guthrie left her home in suburban New York in a car with her two small children. They were never seen again. Leslie's family says just before they disappeared, Leslie was having marital problems. Could Leslie have taken Julie, 6, and Timmy, 3, and started a new life? Could they have joined a cult -- something Leslie had been reading into? Could their car hav...

Kassandra Ramirez was a 25-year-old aspiring chef who disappeared from the Bronx in September 2018. Her family says one week before Kassandra disappeared she testified to a grand jury that she was raped by a family friend a few months before. Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne hit the streets of the Bronx to try to get answers for Kassandra's family only to find that the biggest...

One of the last phone calls William "Billy" Smolinski made before disappearing in Connecticut back in August 2004 was to a man who was also romantically involved with a woman Billy had been dating. Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne steps in to help. Kristin finds that the puzzle pieces lie across Connecticut -- witnesses who saw strange things happen at the time of Billy's disa...

One of the last phone calls William "Billy" Smolinski made before disappearing in Connecticut back in August 2004 was to a man who was also romantically involved with a woman Billy had been dating. Billy left a voicemail telling the man to "watch his back." Police believe Billy was murdered, but by whom? And where is his body? Billy's heartbroken parents have been trying to find him for two decade...

In this episode of 'Missing', Eyewitness News Investigative Reporter Kristin Thorne profiles a young mother, Chelsea Michelle Cobo, who vanished from Brooklyn in 2016. For almost six years, Chelsea's desperate mother, Rose, has been doing everything she can to find her, uncovering her daughter's darkest secrets, imperiling her own safety to get answers from people who don't want to talk, and holdi...

In the new episode of "Missing," Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne examines the disappearance of Corinna Paige Slusser, who went from small-town Pennsylvania cheerleader to sex-trafficked 'hostage' in New York City, where she vanished almost half a decade ago. According to police, someone reported seeing Slusser leaving the Haven Motel on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park, Queen...

On Oct. 24, 1978, Ethel Louise Atwell of Newark, went to work on Staten Island and never returned home. It was dark - around 6 a.m. - when she arrived at her job as a nurse aide at the Staten Island Developmental Center on the grounds of the former Willowbrook State School. Workers heard the 46-year-old scream from the parking lot. By the time police arrived, Ethel had disappeared, but they found...

The disappearance of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip has never been covered on a podcast - until now. The basic details of her disappearance - that she was last seen on September 10, 2001 shopping at a department store in lower Manhattan - have been reported. However, lots of people who have read about her story studied her case, or who knew her have been skeptical about whether she died in the 9/11 attacks...

On the morning of March 18, 1999, teenager Leanne Marie Hausberg disappeared into thin air. The 14-year-old left her family's apartment in Brooklyn and has never been heard from again. For almost 23 years, Leanne's family has lived with the agony of not knowing what happened to her. I hope that by bringing their emotional story to the world, people will try to find Leanne or - at the very least -...

Welcome to the 'True Crime NYC' podcast and our series 'Missing' which tells the stories of missing people who never got the coverage they deserved. Every single victim and every single family deserves justice -- and that's the mission of this series. It all began on Sept. 13, 2021, the first day Channel 7 Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne covered the disappearance of Gabby Pet...

The biggest city in America is home to some of the most sinister crimes. In the new podcast “True Crime NYC,” ABC7 Eyewitness News in New York unravels some of the most ghoulish stories in the Big Apple and exposes the shocking twists and turns. They include: A mobster eludes a series of astonishing assassination attempts – until his luck runs out in a fast-food drive-thru lane. A senior citizen i...