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Aug 4, 2023 · On Aug. 3, 2023, Authorities announced they have identified the Long Island murder victim "known as "Jane Doe No. 7" as 34-year-old Karen Vergata who disappeared around Feb. 14, 1996. The...
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Mar 15, 2016 · On April 21, 1979, Joseph Sabina found his 13-year-old neighbor John Pius Jr. lying motionless in the yard of Dogwood Elementary School. Stones had been stuffed down his throat to asphyxiate...
Oct 19, 2023 · In a 1979 case that brought him recognition as a young prosecutor, Spota secured the convictions of two teenage defendants for the murder of a 13-year-old boy named John Pius. A key witness was...
Dec 10, 2015 · The victim was John Pius, and Burke served as the teen witness against other suspects, who were charged with killing Pius, because he witnessed them stealing a mini-bike. The young...
Nov 2, 2016 · As a teenager, he was a key witness in one of Long Island’s most notorious murders: the killing of a 13-year-old named John Pius, whose battered body was found in the woods in Smithtown, N.Y.,...
Feb 19, 2012 · In 1979, James Burke became a teenage witness in one of Long Island's most notorious murder cases: the suffocation of 13-year-old John Pius in Smithtown.
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Nov 30, 1998 · As correctly stated by the Second Department in its direct review of Petitioner's conviction, the primary evidence linking the Petitioner to the murder of John Pius emerges from the testimony of James Burke, John McCort, Danny Culotta, Michael Burke and David O'Brien.
