Police say a former neighbor died by suicide after being identified as a suspect in the 1994 murder of Violet Filkins. WNYT’s Mark Mulholland reports.
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RIP and my condolences
Aye
The trash took itself out bumer
honestly, if an individual murders and then commits suicide. We should revoke his citizenship and just systematically erase the killer.
Scary one second alive , second later dead
Justice for Shanquilla!!
Coward
As far as I’m concerned, the girlfriend should get jail time as well. She knew for a full 10 years that this individual had committed the crime and said absolutely nothing. Shame on her! At least the person that murdered her in cold blood saved the taxpayers the cost of a trial. I hope he suffered every day of his life.
She may have realized he was the type who was fully capable of ending her life and it crippled her with fear. There have been a bunch of cold cases where the killer confessed, but the person hesitated to tell what they knew until their conscience overcame their fears.
You do that, you will never have people come forward again.
If they have known since 2019, why did they just speak to the killer NOW? Y’all didn’t solve anything.
Ha ha ha ha. im so glad that that man is gone. it’s so funny. what goes around comes around you loser
So….the ex-girlfriend knew for 10 years before coming forward….accessory to murder….the guy kills himself in 2019….and now NBC is waiting 4 years before reporting on this? Uhm. Wtf is wrong with America.
Pos
So sad and sorry for both of them .
Why did she cover for her boyfriend, and say nothing to police as soon as possible? She sat on the information about the case for TEN YEARS. Absolutely sad. She should be charged for withholding information about a murder. Unbelievable. There was no justice served.
But what if he threatened her life as well.. sometimes a closed mouth will save a life.
That’s a great way to encourage other people not to come forward in the future. She had no way of knowing if he was telling the truth and it happened before they were together. She helped solve this cold case and give this family some closure! It would have obviously been ideal if she came forward when he confessed to her but better late than never. She did not commit any crimes!
Or, or… She could have just never told anyone. Good for her for doing the right thing.
LOVELY OUTCOME!!!!
At least he was able to feel some guilt & remorse for what he did. Most of them are incapable of feeling any shame, guilt or remorse. Then some lefty judge feels sorry for them because they lack the ability to feel guilt or remorse & sentence them to a short stay. So they can victimize someone else.
Flabbergasted!!! How can you wait 10 years to tell the police!?!? UNBELIEVABLE!
Sending condolences from all of us tammy’s missing persons site
So the murderer got away with the crime. The girlfriend new 10 years ago and wasn’t charged with anything. That’s not justice.
Took the cowards way out
Guilty
i thought by the thumbnail, she was the killer… May she rest in peace.
SHE WAITED 10 YEARS TO TELL POLICE ?
TERRIBLE
This is a good ending. The suspect did the honorable thing. Not as honorable as coming clean and serving time but clearly this weighed on his conscience and he took his own life for it. A life for a life. His soul has hope to be saved
They found her killer but they certainly did not bring him to Justice. Somehow they failed to arrest him, allowing him to end things on his own terms.
It’s a process to accuse someone and gather needed data to arrest. Once he got wind of them knowing he did it he got ghost and said not todayyy!!
I love happy endings. Good riddance to bloated trash.
Bruh these people got to stop getting cold feet. Charleston White out here cracking down and these yolks letting statutes run their line.
Oh… how sad that Jerimah ended it all !!
even sadder he took a innocent life of a elderly women.. Is death started within way before he took his life.
I think the GF should be charged with something. She knew for 10 years so Im sure she only told the police iut of spite
what was the motive?
she probably caught him in the act while he was stealing so he hit her. the police said he took her car (even though he eneded up returning it later. probaby caught up with guilt i don’t know)
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killing is no good in most cases dont do it guys
Killers are cowards that cannot face what they have done. The woman who knew for 10 yrs but said nothing needs to be charged as an accessory to this crime. If they had that fingerprint match 10 yrs ago… despicable to say nothing!
So glad this thug died by his own hand. I hope it hurt. At least it saved taxpayer costs – a huge savings. He took out his own trash.
What a Coward
I am confused so what happened in 2009? Why did it take until 2023 for law enforcement to try to take him into custody the admittance from 14 years?
No the ex girlfriend said he confessed to it in August 2009 but she didn’t tell attorneys until 10 years later in 2019 and then they opened the case back up. You know the rest
white people 😂😂😂
no my black people and all other colored people do the same messed up drama… don’t say white people !!
What a coward. He took the easy way out instead of facing the consequences. But I’m glad that at least the victim’s family can have closure.
An eye for an eye…
probably got haunted by his conscience for a long time, came to a head fearing prison, killed himself instead.
No one I know
Goes to show u that whatever u do that isn’t positive will slowly but surely eat u up…. 1 year 20 years 60 years down the line it will catch up!!
Y’all know what he meant when he said he didn’t take anything valuable. Of course her life was valuable.
rip violets
Now, he faces eternal judgment.
Why did I think she was the suspect??? 😂😂
Cause that’s the way they are it seem.
Took the Ex 10 year to develop a conscience?!?! Shame on her!! That poor family.
The girlfriend should be charged !!!She new for ten years
If they had fingerprints. How come did it take so long to solve this ? Aren’t Driver´s licenses 🪪 searched for matched fingerprints ?
Coward
They should charge the girlfriend too, for sitting on that information for 10 years!! That’s obstruction of justice! How did she live with herself?
I hope he likes hot places.
They didn’t check the men in same apartment building? Terrible police work
He stole her car but returned it ????? That car would have prints and probably hair all over it for evidence.
Saved the tax payers some money
I’m so glad the woman came forward but why wait ten years? He confessed ten years ago and she finally went to the police. Why?
Nothing screams ‘guilty’ quite like a suspect suicide.
STOP THE ANNOYING OUTROS!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DID IT TAKE THE COWARD , MURDERS GIRLFRIEND SO LONG TO COME FORWARD !!!!!!!
A person with remorse who gets away with a crime never truly gets away with it. Because that guilt stays with you until the day you die. He confessed even though he got away with it for soo long.
She waited 10 years to share that information? Why so long?
thanks, mrs clinton.
suspect doesnt mean guilty. never forget that.
the guilt was eating him alive. good.
One less parasitic criminal sucking oxygen from our planet. Glad he did us all a favor.
Cops are useless and take decades to solve crimes, abolish the police
Edgar Allen Poe wrote about this long ago in the Tell-Tale Heart.
So sad. Murdering the elderly and children, the most vulnerable in the world, is just pure evil.
And there, but for the grace of God, go you or I.
Well, they are all together on the other side and at peace. The killer murdered her for nothing. Took nothing of value except her car, then returned it. This is the quintessential senseless murder.
It may have taken far longer than it should have, but at least he did the state a service and saved the taxpayers a ton of legal fees the greedy lawyers won’t get through appeals.
1:27 didn’t steal anything of value? Yes he did. He stole her LIFE.
What a strange and disturbing case.
At least this way her family didn’t have to go thru an awful trial. Would have been nice if the girlfriend came forward much sooner.
So the girlfriend covered the murder up for an additional 10 years? I guess she came forward because they broke up. She’s about as guilty as he was!
We live in a society where old women are forced to commit suicide 😢
So many complaining that the girlfriend should have come forward immediately. With what info? If the story they said was what he told her, he never said he killed anyone. He said he robbed someone and hit her. There’s no identifying information, no admission of actual murder, just that he robbed and hit her. How was the girlfriend supposed to know? Or she didn’t quite believe him.
There are many stories of people “confessing” to crimes, but never actually stating that they killed anyone because it removes them from the full force of what they’ve done in their minds.
It’s most likely there was a news story about the crime or it being reopened, she saw it and remembered what he said. Put 2 and 2 together and told the cops in case it pertained to that case.
Good. How in the world the girlfriend was not charged is unbelievable.
Good Riddance! May you be tortured eternally…….
A happy ending, at no cost to the taxpayer. His girlfriend should face charges for sitting on that info for 10 years!
Thought she was talking to packed room the camera turns and there’s like 5 people including the cameramen
They should have gotten him then. He lived near Violet, had her car out running around, but still escaped detection for 28 years, and then only on an unsolicited tip from another person.
and the politicians want your guns
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So very glad he killed himself. Justice served.
She waited 10 years what a piece of garbage.
more criminals should do themselves in. american justice system is a joke.
The girlfriend should do some time for not saying anything for a decade
Good riddance.
Thumbnail makes it seem like the victim is the cold case suspect …. How u gonna title a video “suspect found dead of suicide” and show a picture that isn’t of the suspect
They didn’t solve it. His girlfriend did.
I’m so sick of the women who date these guys & only come forward AFTER the break up or 10 years later etc. Same with women who know their boyfriend messes with kids or has messed with a kid. You’re just as evil. (Worse if it involves kids)
Wish New York was like the town of Chillingbourne – no homicides ever!!
Good riddance! Thanks for saving us the money it would’ve cost to keep you alive! I want to know why that woman waiting 10 friggen years to tell anyone! That should cost her! 10 yrs her family suffered! Waited! Hurt!
Shame on that woman for not coming forward
They would’ve never of solved this case until someone ratted the killer out. The cops didnt solve nothing. Pathetic that they claim to solve the case.
ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST REVEALS ALL THINGS IN HIS TIME AND NO ONE GETS AWAY WITH ANYTHING!……..GOD DO NOT LIE!
Shot himself did he? Oh dear, how sad, never mind!
How is this not justice? I see justice here. He did it, admitted it, and didn’t bother the rest of us with a costly trial and prison sentence. Do you realize how much $ it takes to keep prisoners alive? Murderers? He did the best thing he could’ve done. He administered his own justice. Case solved.
He was a good looking kid. The guilt ate at him and he killed himself because of it.