Timeline: Slay suspect Lucius Crawford has long history of violence against women
Photo credit: Mount Vernon Police Department | Lucius Crawford, 60, who was arraigned in the fatal stabbing of 42-year-old Tanya Simmons of Mount Vernon, has confessed to at least two other slayings and has a decades-long criminal record that includes a five-day spree in which he was convicted of knifing four women, police said. (Dec. 5, 2012)
Lucius Crawford, the Mount Vernon man suspected of killing Tanya Simmons and at least two other women, has a long criminal history of violence against women.
The New York Police Department, which is involved in the investigation because one of the slayings Crawford allegedly confessed to may have occurred in the Bronx, provided the following timeline of his arrests, convictions and prison...
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