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2boys4me
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OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
What is wrong with people, seriously! This grandmother was coming out of the elevator in her own building and a man came in, threw gas on her and then set her on fire with a torch. She burned to death :( What a horrific way to die.
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2boys4me
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
The surveillance video, its images disturbingly clear, ends with a woman being burned alive in the elevator of a Brooklyn apartment building on Saturday.
But in the beginning, it seemed routine: a man dressed as an exterminator, wearing gloves, with a protective mask perched atop his head and carrying a container on his back, takes the elevator to the fifth floor.
Sometime later, an older woman carrying groceries took the same ride to the fifth floor.
Two cameras recording from different positions, one inside the small tiled elevator and another in a hallway, show the doors open and the man with the container approach. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists.
Having cornered the woman in the elevator, the man struggles to light a barbecue lighter. He then ignites a Molotov cocktail — a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck. He retreats and comes back again, spraying more liquid on his victim. And suddenly the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space: the woman, on fire.
Investigators are poring over the footage, a disturbing silent film capturing what is perhaps a singular act of violence: a woman being burned alive.
The crime took place Saturday afternoon at 203 Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights. Detectives and fire marshals were reviewing the footage and interviewing neighbors.
The police identified the victim as Doris Gillespie, 64. One neighbor said that Ms. Gillespie was a postal worker.
As of early Sunday morning, there had been no arrests, but investigators were already following a major lead: the man appeared to have been burned on his face and hands. Investigators immediately began looking for him at local hospitals.
The Police Department released photographs of the suspect, taken from the video, late Saturday night.
Firefighters and the police arrived about 4 p.m. after callers to 911 reported fire and smoke in the building, unaware of what had happened in the elevator.
A resident of the fifth floor, John, 29, who would not give his last name, said he had heard screaming and saw smoke coming from the elevator. “I thought it was kids because the screaming was high-pitched,” he said. “I looked out the door and saw smoke coming out of the elevator.”
Residents were evacuated from the building after the fire. Hours later, some, like Maria Daley, wept while sitting on a city bus that had been provided for the displaced tenants. “She was my friend,” Ms. Daley said. “I just spoke to her yesterday.”
Another neighbor, Heidi Matthews, 46, said Ms. Gillespie had given her a plant on Mother’s Day. “It’s hard to believe somebody would do that to her,” she said.
“We all loved her,” Ms. Matthews said. “She was a part of this neighborhood for years.”
Tim Stelloh contributed reporting.
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| Posted 12/18/11 9:35 AM |
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Mushesgirl
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Just saw on ch 7. I'm seriously done with 'human beings'
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| Posted 12/18/11 9:36 AM |
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
There are some sick, sick people in this world.
How horrible. Hope they find him soon and he rots a slow painful death himself.
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| Posted 12/18/11 9:38 AM |
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headoverheels
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Oh no... God bless that poor woman 
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| Posted 12/18/11 9:38 AM |
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BellaRock
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Dear Lord, what is wrong with people. My heartbreaks for the family of that poor woman.
I hope they find him and torch his @ss
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:10 AM |
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LadyBug1209
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Wow. That is one of the sickest things I have ever heard. That poor woman.
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:21 AM |
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atitus724
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
 omg!
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:24 AM |
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Stacey1403
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
This is horrific
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:24 AM |
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ONEmoreBABY
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
How absolutely disgusting. Her poor family must be completely distraught knowing these details.
I really believe that murders should be given the death penalty in the same way they killed their victims.
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:29 AM |
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tink23
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Absolutely disgusting....
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:38 AM |
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CallaLily
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
When they find him, they should do the same thing to him. What a sick piece of sh1t!
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:39 AM |
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That is just so sick. How horrible.
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:41 AM |
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lvdolphins
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
OMGosh my stomach turned! WTHeck is wrong with people!
I hope they find him and day by day slowly burn him! UgggggH!
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| Posted 12/18/11 10:57 AM |
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PennyCat
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
This is the most horrific crime, I have no words even 
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| Posted 12/18/11 11:04 AM |
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LSP2005
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
This crime so heinous and eggregious that it deserves the death penalty and I am not really in favor of the death penalty but if any crime were to warrant it, this in my mind is that crime. What kind of pathetic excuse for a person does something like this??!?!? I am so incredibly sorry for her and her family.
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| Posted 12/18/11 11:34 AM |
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Peainapod
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
from what another article i read said it seems the attacker knew her? i dont know how they would know that yet.
in any event, this a$$hole should be burned alive himself. what is this world coming to?
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| Posted 12/18/11 11:55 AM |
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bettybcafe
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
OMG...my jaw dropped.....that is just horrible, I have no words except that I hope that guy dies the same way...
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| Posted 12/18/11 12:04 PM |
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8ternity
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
OMG!!! I have chills all over....that is just disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Posted 12/18/11 12:10 PM |
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jam11308
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
Oh my god - that poor woman
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| Posted 12/18/11 2:31 PM |
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missfabulous
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
What an evil person...he deserves to burn- in HELL!
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| Posted 12/18/11 2:33 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/police-question-man-in-nyc-woman-s-fire-death-1.3397276
A man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman hosed down with an accelerant and set ablaze in the elevator of her apartment building, police said Sunday.
The 47-year-old man, who hasn't been charged, said he had started a fire, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. The man's identity hasn't been released.
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Browne wouldn't comment on a motive in the killing but said the suspect knew Gillespie.
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| Posted 12/18/11 2:37 PM |
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ElizaRags35
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
No words...
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| Posted 12/18/11 3:18 PM |
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AngnShaun
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
I saw this in the paper this morning... i just done understand how people can do this to each other.
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| Posted 12/18/11 3:52 PM |
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My4GirlsMyLife
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Re: OMG Some creepo set a lady on fire in an elevator!
That poor woman ! That is a horrible way to die ...absolutely disgusting ! Let him burn in hell for eternity
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