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Lucius Crawford's arrest: '93 victim's mom knew of Mount Vernon slay suspect

Originally published: December 6, 2012 8:11 AM
Updated: December 6, 2012 6:11 PM
By CHRISTIAN WADE and KEN SCHACHTER  christian.wade@cablevision.com

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A few weeks after Alene Perkins' 23-year-old daughter was brutally murdered in Yonkers in September 1993, a young woman approached her and said she knew who the killer was and would tell her later.

"I never saw her again," Perkins said. "But I kept the faith. I knew that one day I would find out what happened."

The young woman -- Nella West -- was killed a month later in Riverdale in...

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