Crime mini- Episode 7- Shadows of Harlem: The Unseen Victims

Welcome to another gripping episode of In Time Crime, where host Robyn Bagayoko delves into the heart-wrenching stories that didn't make the front pages but deserve to be told. In this special Crime Mini segment, we uncover the tragic case of Helen Abbot, a 69-year-old woman brutally assaulted and murdered in her East Harlem apartment. Robyn guides us through the chilling details of this heinous crime and the community's shock and sorrow.

But the darkness doesn't end there. We also explore the mysterious death of a man found on a ritzy Greenwich, Connecticut roadway. This brief newspaper mention leads us on a deeper investigation into the underworld connections and the eventual conviction of his murderer. It's a tale of contrasts, from the bustling streets of Harlem to the affluent enclaves of Greenwich, united by the silent cries for justice.

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Episode Transcript

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InSign Crime presents Crime Mini for cases that did not get extensive coverage,
but InSign Crime would love to tell you all about it.
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Hello and welcome back again to another episode of inside crime.
I'm your host, Robyn Bagayoko, and thank you guys so much once again for joining us.
I really, really appreciate it. Today is a crime mini, so of course it will
be very short, very small, tiny crime.

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It's not a tiny crime. These crimes are big. Any crime is a big crime.
But a lot of crimes don't get an extensive, elaborate coverage.
It's just a quick post in a newspaper, which most of our in-time crime stories
come from the New York Post.

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So today's story, let's jump into it because we like to keep it nice and short.
But as always, do follow us on all platforms and social media platforms.
Subscribe on all podcast platforms. We really appreciate you so, so, so, so much.
Okay, so today's case is about a 69-year-old woman who was found brutally beaten

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and sexually assaulted and strangled in her East Harlem apartment.
So, Helen Abbott was discovered by her daughter at 3.49 p.m.
On Sunday in her bedroom on the 12th floor of her apartment in the Wagner Houses at 2400 2nd Avenue.

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So, her daughter Cheryl went to check on her after two days of not hearing anything from her mother.
And that's how she found that she was dead in her apartment.
So when they found Miss Habit, she was found with her pants around her nose
and a cord around her neck.

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That was an indication of the fact that she was strangled.
The apartment door was closed, but not locked.
And it was still under investigation to see if anything was stolen.
Stolen so one of her neighbors Yvonne
Little said she was very nice and she said that she saw her just the other day

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sitting outside and how could someone do something like this so the police are
examining the surveillance footage around the area from the building in hopes
to identify a perpetrator.
So, you know, this is a sad case.
This lady was 69 heading to 70 and someone came into her apartment.

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She was probably peacefully watching something and somebody came into her apartment
and brutally raped and murdered her, strangling her to death.
It's always like that That, well, you know, neighbors will see people that go
through things like these and they're like, dang, I just saw them just the other

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day. And this is so unbelievable.
You know, how could you do this to a 69 year old? How could you rape a 69 year old woman?
An elderly woman. How could you? How could you? How could you do that?
It's real sad out here, you guys. This is a sad situation. But this...

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This story, this case, this incident, I should say, took place back in January the 15th of 2008.
So that's when this was reported. So this was back in 2008. So this was rough time in Harlem.
And I'm really sorry this happened to Miss Helen.

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This is really sad and really disgusting for somebody to do this to somebody like that.
Anytime somebody is raped or attacked or anything like that,
it's always very disgusting and very sad.
And you just hope that this person is brought to justice that did this to her

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and they suffer the highest of consequences.
Also, there's another small story that I want to report,
a very short story that was also posted in the New York Post on January the
15th of 2008, 2008 that a body of a man was found sprawled in a roadway in Ritzy,

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Greenwich, Connecticut.
So if nobody is aware, I can tell you this much about Greenwich.
Greenwich is very upper class, very hoity-toity, money, money, big wealth.
Big wealth is in Greenwich, Connecticut.
So So to find a body there, this is something that they're saying.

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He was a black man and he was probably the target of a hit and he may have been hurriedly abandoned.
So they're saying maybe he didn't live around that area, but he was abandoned in that area.
So they're saying, based on their investigations, that it looks as if he was
specifically targeted.

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And this is not a random act of violence. So this might have been someone who
was involved in something or somebody put a hit out on him or something of that matter.
They're still investigating the case of what
happened to this man to be
dumped in such a ritzy area you know

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like I said Greenwich's money big big big money okay okay so this story was
in the New York Post about the body dumping very short piece about three sentences
in the January 15, 2008 post.
So I did a little bit of digging and went to the Stanford Advocate.

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And there I found the story that follows for what happened to this man and who he was.
So in May the 31st of 2011.
Let me get it. It made the 31st of 2011.
We follow up with this case to see who was the victim and who was convicted for his murder.

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So several weeks after standing trial on a slew of felony offenses,
a Bridgeport man was convicted Tuesday in the U.S.
District Court of shooting a Jamaican drug dealer to death and dumping his body
on a Greenwich back country road.
So, yeah, this is our story. This is our guy.

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So the victim was a Jamaican drug dealer.
OK, and Larry Corbett, who was 38, was the one who shot and killed him.
He was brought up on charges of murder, kidnapping, robbery,
drug and weapons violations.
And would stem from the 2008 shooting death of George McPherson.

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So the Jamaican drug dealer was George McPherson.
Now this is off topic, but McPherson is a family name of mine and my family is also Jamaican.
So, oh my God, what if this guy is related to me, you guys?
I don't know. I don't note because I've never been told anything about a George

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McPherson who was shot to death yeah I was not aware of a George McPherson but
it's crazy that is it's kind of crazy Jamaican,
George McPherson McPherson is a family name Jamaicans are yeah it's okay either way Larry was

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federally inducted in February of 2010 after, of course, the death of George in Bronx, New York,
where they found his body later in Connecticut.
Okay, so I'm not going to get too much into the case because,

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like I said, this is a crime mini, but I just decided to look further into the
case because all they said in the New York Post was that the body was found.
There's no identity for the body. It was just a body found in Connecticut,
Red Sea Ridge, Connecticut, Greenwich, Connecticut.
So, you know, I just wanted to do a little bit of digging and this is what I
found. So thank you guys once again for listening to Crime Mini.

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Let's keep it nice and small. Thank you so much once again for joining me for a Crime Mini episode.
Episode do follow us on all platforms subscribe on all platforms that you listen
to this audio on and we appreciate you so so so so much we'll hear from you next time,

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thanks for joining us and have a great afternoon.
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