She looked like she was tortured. Each of the convictions was upheld.[7][8]. She later said in an interview on Oprah: "I'll tell you what—I didn't feel wonderful about the boys' defense attorneys, especially the one who cross-examined me. Together they claimed that they had been intimidated, lied to, and coerced by police into making false confessions. Like the five others, he was also indicted on charges related to the attack and robbery of Loughlin. According to a 2016 study by Craig J. Trocino, director of the Miami Law Innocence Clinic, 27 percent of those persons had "originally confessed to their crimes. After an investigation into the defendants' innocence was conducted in 2002 by Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney for New York County, the city withdrew all charges against the men, and the defendants' sentences were vacated. [70], Raymond Santana also lives in Georgia, not far from McCray. After about a week in a coma she woke up with no memory of what happened to her. In 1998, he violated his parole and was sentenced to 3½–7 years' prison on drug charges. In many other respects the defendants' statements were not corroborated by, consistent with, or explanatory of objective, independent evidence. This was the age at which a suspect could be questioned without a parent or guardian present. Another result of the blows to her head:  a traumatic brain injury which damaged her physical and cognitive functioning. He was released and exonerated in 2002. In an interview with VLADTV Santana and Salaam said the group of five have not had any conversations with her, as of 2017. David Lewis, banker, attacked and robbed about 9:25–9:40, John Loughlin, the 40-year-old teacher, severely beaten and kicked about 9:40–9:50 p.m. near the reservoir and left unconscious. “Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. Two passerbys found her and she had lost 80 percent of her blood. Photo: Speaking at a news conference in 2002, Bloomberg spoke of his confidence regarding the actions of the police department. He had denied any knowledge of the rape in his videotaped confession, but was implicated by other defendants' statements. As to the five defendants, the report said: We believe the inconsistencies contained in the various statements were not such as to destroy their reliability. [67], In a 1991 New York Review of Books article, which was the first mainstream piece arguing that the Five's convictions had been wrongful, Joan Didion suggested the verdicts stemmed from a cultural crisis, writing that "So fixed were the emotions provoked by this case that the idea that there could have been, for even one juror, even a moment's doubt in the state's case… seemed, to many in the city, bewildering, almost unthinkable: the attack on the jogger had by then passed into narrative, and the narrative was...about what was wrong with the city and about its solution".[68]. On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. The other two defendants later joined the lawsuit. It was 18" wide. What’s the likelihood that a sophisticated group of cops and prosecutors are going to make up a story that she can refute when she wakes up?”. [51] The fourth one, on April 17, took place during the day in the park and is now tied to Reyes. Her eye had exploded from its socket. After further investigation, he was never indicted, and all charges were dismissed against him on October 31, 1989. [74][75][76] That year, Reyes informed a corrections officer that he had raped Meili. He was held at four different prisons, having asked for transfers in the hope of improving his situation. Her normal route began at the 84th street entrance – just past the Metropolitan Museum of Art – and moved north along the East drive. Trisha's story is not of an attack, but rather, one of healing. Linda Fairstein was the assistant district attorney in the sex crimes unit of New York City at the time of the Central Park Five case. Patricia Ellen Meili aka Trisha Meili is a white woman who was jogging in the park, and attacks on eight other people, in areas ranging from the North Woods to the Reservoir of Manhattan’s Central Park, on the night of April 19, 1989 and raped her. [5], After the major media's decisions to print the names, photos, and addresses of the juvenile suspects, they and their families received serious threats. She began a career as an inspirational speaker. Initially the Meili case was investigated as a homicide, and the April 17 rape was investigated as a rape assault, which resulted in a lack of comparison of the DNA recovered in the two cases. The prosecution arranged to try the six defendants in the Meili case in two separate groups. did exactly what they should have done a number of years ago when the terrible incident took place...If we see any reason to think that we acted inappropriately, [Police] Commissioner Kelly will certainly take appropriate measures. Filmmaker Skye Borgman left a lot on the cutting room floor, and we want to see it. Meili was wearing headphones when she was attacked, according to "The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One Of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes,” a book written in 2011 by Sarah Burns. The boys, who came to be known as the “Central Park 5,” were sentenced to between seven and 13 years in prison for the attack. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau withdrew all charges against the boys, men at this time, and their convictions were vacated. [1][2][3][4] Three of the victims were Black or Latino. It is based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five male were wrongfully convicted of raping and beating a woman in Central Park and they weren’t released until 2002, when the real criminal confessed to the crime. In 2003, Meili revealed her identity to the public and published the memoir "I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility" under her own name. The five youths named, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise were charged and tried for assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder relating to Meili’s and other attacks in the park. "[42] Trump did not apologize. “Even though we were not able to go back and right the wrong of not getting our high school diplomas outside,” Salaam said at the graduation ceremony.

(“I don’t mind if they picket,” he said. [117], As of December 2014, the five men were pursuing an additional $52 million in damages from New York State in the New York Court of Claims, before Judge Alan Marin. [8], Salaam allegedly made verbal admissions to the police. Each of the teenagers had his own defense counsel. [27][28][29] She attended Upper St. Clair High School, graduating in 1978. [6][8][9] At a pre-trial hearing in October 1989, a police officer testified that when Loughlin was found, he was bleeding so badly that he "looked like he was dunked in a bucket of blood".[10]. [98][99] It said there was "nothing but his uncorroborated word" that he acted alone. If there is one miniseries you need to binge this weekend on Netflix, it's Ava Duvernay's retelling of the Central Park Five tragedy, When They See Us. Because Lopez was younger than 16 at the time of the crime, he was sentenced to serve his time in a juvenile facility. “I think Reyes ran with that pack of kids. The five other defendants, indicted for assaults of other victims, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and received less severe sentences.

[33] He was sentenced in March 1991 to 1½ to 4½ years, after pleading guilty to the mugging of jogger John Loughlin. He served 13 years and 8 months in multiple state prisons: Rikers' Island Prison in 1990, Attica Correctional Facility in 1991, Wende State Penitentiary in 1993 and Auburn State Correctional Facility in 2001. Physically, she still bears some shadows of the attack. Just before nine o’clock in the evening on 19 April, 1989, 28-year-old financial analyst Trisha Meili left her Upper East Side apartment and went jogging in Central Park. This enabled them to control the order in which certain evidence would be introduced to the court. [142], "Central Park Five" redirects here.

[citation needed] He was sentenced to 5–15 years.

The sentences each of them served is as follows: On appeal, Salaam's attorneys charged that he had been held by police without access to parents or guardians. Since its release, Meili has worked with sex assault victims and as a motivational speaker.

[7][64] Wise was convicted of lesser charges of sexual abuse, assault, and riot in the attack on the female jogger and on Loughlin. [7], Based on interviews and other evidence, the team believed that Reyes had acted alone: The rape appeared to have taken place in the North Woods area after the main body of the thirty teenagers had moved well to the south, and the timeline reconstruction of events made it unlikely that he was joined by any of the defendants. Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. [8] In his untaped confession, Salaam claimed to have struck the jogger with a pipe at the beginning of the incident. 581.9k Followers, 211 Following, 690 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from korey wise (@koreykingwise) 4762/89", "True Confession of The Central Park Rapist", "Who Is Matias Reyes? "[24], Patricia Ellen Meili[25] was born on June 24, 1960 in Paramus, New Jersey, and raised in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. If you can’t wait for the Netflix series, check out the documentary on the case by famed filmmaker Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah called The Central Park Five.

[14] Because of this, the police treated the attack as a probable homicide. There was no evidence in the grass of footprints of multiple perpetrators. She hoped her book would share an inspiring story of resilience: “I thought this would be a good time to say, ‘Hey, look. The four juvenile defendants served 6–7 years each; the 16-year-old was tried and sentenced as an adult and served 13 years in an adult prison. [14][17], In early June, Meili was transferred to Gaylord Hospital, a long-term acute care center in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she spent six months in rehabilitation. [8][59] Salaam and McCray were 15 years old, and Santana 14 years old, at the time of the crime. I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility". Her brain was swollen. They were exonerated in 2002 after the real rapist  came forward and admitted to the crime.

Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. [citation needed] He was released in August 2002, the last of the five men to leave prison. according to a Los Angeles Times story from that time. [98][99][100][101] The panel issued a 43-page report in January 2003.