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Jun 8, 2019 · Longtime detective-turned-news reporter Mike Sheehan — known for his hand in investigating the “Preppy Killer” and “Central Park Five” cases — died Friday following a battle with cancer, the...
Jun 8, 2019 · Sheehan was a key investigator in the Central Park Five and “preppy killer” cases, and a veteran journalist who mentored younger reporters. He passed away from cancer on Friday, according to his colleagues and friends.
Jun 10, 2019 · Mike Sheehan has died from cancer contracted on September 11, 2001 while covering the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lifelong New Yorker, NYPD Detective, writer, raconteur, newsman, proud...
Jun 8, 2019 · NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Former NYPD detective and FOX 5 NY reporter Mike Sheehan has died. Once a well-known 25-year veteran of the police force, Sheehan worked as a reporter for FOX 5 NY for 16...
- The Preppy Killer
- The Central Park Five
- False Confessions
- Media Career
- Cancer
Sheehan was an investigator on the murder of Jennifer Levin in 1986. The 18-year-old was found, strangled, in Central Park one morning. Police followed leads about the man she had left a bar with the night before: Robert Chambers. At 20-years-old, he had a high class pedigree, having attended schools like Saint David's School, Choate-Rosemary Hall,...
Sheehan was also part of the investigative team on the infamous Central Park Five case in 1989. In that case, a Trisha Ellen Meili was found beaten nearly to death in Central Park. While she was in a 12 day coma after the attack, police tracked down five teen boys who had been in the park that night. Under questioning, all five boys confessed to ra...
The Central Park Five case hinged on false confessions given by each of the teens. Then and now, especially after DNA evidence exonerated them all, criminal justice reform advocates have questioned the methods police used to elicit the confessions from the teens. While some have alleged that there was coercion used by police, The Heavy reports that...
After retiring from the NYPD in 1993, he took on the role of crime reporter for the New York City Fox affiliate. He was a well respected figure there until 2009, when he got into a drunk driving accident — with a horse. According to The Heavy, one night, he was allegedly driving his car while under the influence and crashed into Mounted Unit horse ...
Sheehan passed away this week at the age of 71 according to The Heavy. He had been in treatment for cancer and had complications with his kidney. He leaves behind his wife Denise and daughter Clair. NYPD Detectives Endowment Association president Michael Palladino told the New York Daily News: “He was a great detective .He was one of those old-time...
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Jun 8, 2019 · Mike Sheehan, who investigated the "Central Park Five" and the "Preppy Killer" cases, died of cancer at 71. He was also a crime reporter for Fox 5 News until he crashed his car into a police horse in 2009.
Jun 8, 2019 · Mike Sheehan, a veteran NYPD detective who was an integral investigator in the controversial Central Park Five jogger rape case, has died at the age of 71, according to the New York Daily News.
