Wall Street banker jogging through Central Park assaulted and raped 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 19 1989)


Video: 'The nightmare of the Central Park Five'

(Wednesday, April 19, 1989, 9:00–10:00 p.m. EST; during the Central Park jogger case) — Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old Wall Street banker, was assaulted and raped tonight while jogging through Manhattan’s Central Park, leaving her in a coma for more than a week.

Five teenagers – four African American and one Hispanic – were convicted in the attack, but in 2002, Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and serial rapist in prison, confessed to raping the jogger, and DNA evidence confirmed his guilt.


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