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East-Harlem Rapist and Serial Killer Arohn Kee Homicide New York · Murder Files Unsealed

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  On February nineteenth, nineteen ninety nine, a twenty five year old man was
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  apprehended by the Miami Police who was wanted in New York for at least one
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  murder and two other offenses. After closely monitoring his movements, surveillance teams decided
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  to take action when he was located at the Sun Hotel in downtown Miami.
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  Two SWAT teams thoroughly searched the hotel and eventually found him in a room on
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  the highest floor. The New York City Police suspect that Key is responsible for
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  a series of killings and sexual assaults in East Harlem. During the search,
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  officers also discovered a sixteen year old girl on a different part of the sixth
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  floor. She was identified as Angelique Stallings, who had been missing since she
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  went on a date with Key on Valentine's Day. Furthermore, the police are
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  currently investigating whether Key, who has been nicknamed the East Harlem rapist by the
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  un in New York media, was involved in the murders of two other teenage
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  girls in nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety seven. Our own Key is the
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  worst nightmare for every young lady, stated New York Deputy Inspector Joseph Resnik.
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  Earlier this week. On December twenty two thousand, a New York jury found
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  Key guilty of the murders of three girls and the rape of four others during
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  an eight year crime spree. When he is sentenced on January twenty sixth Key,
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  who is now twenty seven years old, will face life imprisonment without the
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  possibility of parole. Key was charged with the murders of three Harlem girls between
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  nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety eight. Additionally, four other victims age between
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  thirteen and fifteen, were subjected to rape. One of the girls may have
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  been burned alive on a rooftop, while another had her life taken away by
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  and a third, who was only thirteen years old, was strangled and stabbed
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  three times in her exposed left breast. The mothers of these three murdered teenage
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  girls are enduring unimaginable suffering on the twelfth floor of a court house in Lower
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  Manhattan. No mother should have to go through such pain. Key, a
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  computer expert, self proclaimed rapper and convicted thief, displayed his alleged cunning by
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  repeatedly outsmarting the police's attempts to obtain his DNA and connect him to the crimes.
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  For instance, when he was detained last year on a minor theft charge,
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  he refused to provide a cheek swab, even after the officers falsely claimed
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  it was a tuberculosis test. Key cleverly invoked his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's
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  witness, stating his opposition to invasive medical procedures just as he was about to
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  sign the consent form. This sudden disy of religious devotion surprised the investigators.
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  During the trial, the prosecution presented DNA evidence from six out of the seven
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  victims which matched keys DNA. The police managed to obtain keys DNA from a
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  coffee cup he used while in custody. At the time of his arrest on
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  February nineteenth, nineteen ninety nine, In a peculiar turn of events, Key
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  chose to testify in his own defense, disregarding his lawyer's advice. Over the
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  course of two days, he delivered lengthy and incoherent testimony, vehemently maintaining his
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  innocence regarding the murders and sexual assaults. Furthermore, he accused the police of
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  framing him. Key's explanation for his DNA being found on six of the seven
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  victims took a bizarre twist. He claimed that the police had deliberately planted his
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  DNA on the girls, suggesting some sort of genetic manipulation or shuffling as the
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  reason behind it. Aaron Key embarked on his spree of rape and murder in
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  New York City, starting on January twenty fourth, nineteen ninety one, with
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  the killing of thirteen year old Parlo Ilera. Subsequently, on September thirteenth,
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  nineteen ninety seven, Key committed the same Highness Act against Johanes Castro nineteen and
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  burned her body beyond recognition. Continuing his violent rampage, he raped, sodomized,
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  and murdered Rashidah Washington, eighteen on June second, nineteen ninety eight.
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  Throughout these horrific crimes, Key also assaulted several teenage girls. Initially a suspect
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  following the Elera murder, Key managed to avoid serious suspicion until early nineteen ninety
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  nine, when he came under surveillance in the hopes of obtaining DNA evidence against
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  him. The breakthrough occurred shortly After Key was briefly detained on theft charges.
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  Despite his refusal to provide a voluntary DNA sample, one was collected from a
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  cup he had used before his release. Key fled New York before the results
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  could link him to his crimes, but was captured in a Miami hotel a
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  few days later, accompanied by his seventeen year old girlfriend. Despite the defense's
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  criticism of the DNA collection method, Key was convicted of the three murders and
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  four rapes. Following the verdict, as he was escorted from the courtroom,
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  Key directed an offensive remark towards the spectators. However, he apologized for his
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  outburst during his sentencing on January twenty fifth, two thousand one, where he
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  was handed a four hundred year prison sentence. On September fifteen, two thousand
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  four, Key was sentenced to an additional twenty years in prison for the nineteen
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  ninety four rape of a seventeen year old girl in a Harlem apartment building basement
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  after being linked to the case through DNA evidence. A Brooklyn teenager's disappearance may
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  now be attributed to a young m