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Menachem (Max) Stark (July 15, 1974 – January 3, 2014) was a Jewish Chassidic American real estate developer in New York City. Stark was abducted outside his office at 331 Rutledge Street in Brooklyn on January 2, 2014,〔''New York Daily News'', 3 January 2014, ()〕 in an intended robbery. His body was found smoldering in a dumpster〔(Kidnapped developer’s body found in dumpster ) New York Post, January 4, 2014〕 outside a Getty station on Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck, New York,〔''CBS NY'', 4 January 2014, ()〕 on January 3, 2014. According to coroner reports, he died of suffocation, and was also badly burned on his torso and hands. When found, he had $4,000 cash in his pocket, and uncashed checks in his name worth another $41,000.〔(Probed in Killing. New York City Authorities Investigate Business Dealings of Well-Known Real-Estate Developer Menachem Stark ) Wall Street Journal Online, January 6, 2014〕 Stark exited his office at around 11:45pm on January 2, 2014, into a heavy blizzard. A surveillance camera positioned near the office captured images of Stark struggling with two attackers for nearly five minutes, before being forced into a silver Dodge Caravan.〔(New York Police Department video of Stark kidnapping, accessed on YouTube via WSJ online, January 15, 2014 )〕 Broken handcuffs and plastic restraining tape were later found on the sidewalk.〔(Murdered Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark's family says a 'devil' did this ) New York Daily News, Monday, January 6, 2014〕 During the weeks before his death, Stark reportedly ended his conversations with the phrase "Please pray for me", and asked the person to whom he was speaking to invoke his name and his mother's name, a sign in Orthodox Judaism of someone facing a life-threatening situation.〔(Arrest looms in abduct-slay of Brooklyn landlord ) New York Post, March 30, 2014.〕 == Cause of death, arrest of suspect == In May 2014, construction worker Kendal Felix, 26, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder, kidnapping, and attempted robbery in the Stark case.〔(Slumlord murderer indicted but investigation continues )〕 Felix lived in nearby Crown Heights, and had done about $20,000 worth of construction work for Stark but had not been paid. He said that he and two accomplices had kidnapped Stark, hoping to get the money.〔(Construction worker contracted by Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark fingered in the Hasidic man's killing )〕 According to the ''New York Post'', Felix confessed to the killing and admitted to being the driver of the van, as well as one of the men who wrestled with Stark on the sidewalk. The ''Post'' said that Felix implicated two other men in the murder, but that they had been arrested and then released.〔() Suspect confesses role in Brooklyn slumlord murder〕 According to Felix's alleged confession, one of the accomplices said "He owes me money" just before they grabbed Stark.〔 According to the Nassau County Medical Examiner, which conducted an autopsy, Stark died of asphyxia by compression of the neck and chest. Felix indicated that the death was unintentional, and occurred after one of Felix's accomplices sat on Stark inside the minivan.〔(Family of slain Brooklyn slumlord cries for more arrests )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Menachem Stark murder case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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