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Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Mount Vernon Police Department crime scene investigators gather evidence from a basement apartment at 7 Beekman Ave. in Mount Vernon, the residence of alleged serial killer Lucius Crawford. (Dec. 5, 2012)
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The suspect in a Mount Vernon slaying confessed to killing three women in Westchester County and New York City, crimes that were part of a decades-long history of brutal attacks against women.
"This is the closest thing to a serial killer that Mount Vernon has seen in a long time," Police Commissioner Carl Bell said of 60-year-old Lucius Crawford.
Crawford, who spent 28 years in prison,...
