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Sep 20, 2019 · The Central Park Five were exonerated after Matias Reyes, a murderer and serial rapist, confessed to being the lone attacker in the Central Park Jogger case.
Aug 27, 2023 · A Harlem bodega clerk by day, Reyes was a serial rapist by night. He was eventually convicted of an unrelated murder, and while serving life in prison, confessed to the rape of Meili, exonerating the Central Park Five after some of them had served over a decade behind bars.
Aug 21, 2020 · Matias, who was working as a deli clerk and living out of a van at the time, continued his spree of rapes and violent crimes for months. He even earned himself the nickname “East Side Slasher.” He went on to rape five other women by forcing his way into their apartments.
More than a decade after the attack, while incarcerated for attacking five other women in 1989, serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the Meili assault and claimed he was the only actor; DNA evidence confirmed his involvement.
May 23, 2019 · In 2002, 13 years after the Central Park attack and with four of the Central Park Five out of prison, convicted serial rapist Matias Reyes came forward and said he was Meili's sole attacker.
Jun 4, 2019 · Matias Reyes confessed to raping and assaulting Trish Meili in 2002, leading to the exoneration of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five.
Jun 1, 2019 · Reyes is still in prison. Netflix’s 'When They See Us' tells the story of five young men imprisoned for a brutal crime—a crime committed by Matias Reyes.
Jul 26, 2022 · Their convictions were thrown out in 2002 after evidence linked a convicted serial rapist and murderer, Matias Reyes, to the attack. Reyes told investigators he alone had been responsible for...
Dec 6, 2002 · Matias Reyes, who has confessed to raping and assaulting Central Park Jogger in April 1989 alone, describes his version of events that night; prosecutors accept his version and have joined...
Matias Reyes had been convicted of a string of rapes and a murder and was in prison. He'd come across one of the Central Park Five, Korey Wise, twice during...
