Police admit they have no suspects and few strong leads in the investigation into the shocking kidnap and murder of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark. Police Commissioner William Bratton said police are hoping than information about the van used to snatch Stark from his office in Williamsburg last Thursday night may jumpstart the tangled…
Slain Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark reportedly died from “compression asphyxiation,” likely caused when his attackers sat on him after kidnapping him in a van, several sources reported. Police believe Stark, a prominent member of the Satmar Hasidic community, was already dead when his attackers set his body on fire and tossed it in…
The New York Post is under fire for a cover story about the murder of Hasidic landlord Menachem Stark. “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?” blared the headline of the Sunday edition, next to a photo of Stark wearing a large shtreiml and graying side curls. According to the story, Stark “had so many enemies that…
My brother in law, Menachem Stark was killed this weekend. A 39-year old father of seven, he will be missed by his wife, children, friends, and so many others. He had so much ahead of him and his loss is a tragedy for all of us. He left home Thursday, and simply never returned home….
Stunned relatives and friends mourned the death of murdered Hasidic real estate developer Menachem Stark — as police continued to hunt in vain for his killers Monday. “We’re still in shock. Nobody can come to terms with it,” a brother, Yaakov Stark, told the Daily News. “I spoke to my brother the day he disappeared.”…
Menachem Stark, a Hasidic real estate developer who was found murdered and burned in a dumpster on Friday in Long Island, was buried last night after hundreds gathered outside of the Lodiner Bais Medrash synagogue in Williamsburg to pay their respects. Questions surrounding the circumstances of his death continue to mount. Detectives working on the…
Russia said on Thursday that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow said an investigation would continue, Russian news agencies reported. Samples were taken from Arafat’s body last year by Swiss, French and Russian forensics experts after an al Jazeera documentary said his clothes…
A suburb of the French capital honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States. A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist”…
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