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Facing Murder Rap, Defendant Blames Rough Sex
Edgard Mercado was killed in his East Village home in 2009 by a man who claimed the death was caused by rough sex gone wrong. Using a defense that appears to be growing more common in the killings of...
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Defense Says John Laubach Died During Consensual Rough Sex
Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera in their 2012 criminal arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | As the trial of the accused killers of John Laubach opened in Manhattan...
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Chelsea Gay Man Feared His Alleged Killers In Advance of 2012 Death, DA Says
Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at the time of their 2012 booking. | NYPD DCPI BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The Manhattan district attorney’s office is stitching together a case that relies on...
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Two Incriminating Statements Now In Evidence in Laubach Murder Trial
Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL As the prosecution ended its case in the murder trial of Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera,...
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John Laubach Accidentally Strangled To Death During Sex, Defendant Asserts
Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera (r.) and Edwin Faulkner at the time of their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL Giving the defense a boost, one of the accused killers of John Laubach took the stand and...
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Medical Expert Backs Defense in John Laubach Murder Trial
Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at the time of his 2012 arrest. | DCPI Testifying in the trial of the two accused killers of John Laubach, a defense forensic expert said the 57-year-old gay man died from...
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Closing Arguments Complete in John Laubach Murder Trial
Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera (r.) and Edwin Faulkner at the time of their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL With closing arguments completed in the trial of the two accused killers of John Laubach,...
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Two Felony Murder Convictions in 2012 John Laubach Slaying
Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Following a month-long trial, a Manhattan jury quickly convicted Edwin Faulkner and...
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In Killings of Two Gay Men, Very Different Outcomes
Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL Call it a tale of two trials. Both involved younger gay men accused of killing an older gay man. In one,...
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John Laubach’s Killers Get 25 to Life
Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera (r.) and Edwin Faulkner at the time of their 2012 arraignment. | JEFFERSON SIEGEL The convicted killers of John Laubach will spend at least 25 years in prison for the 2012...
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