Man Charged After Woman Burned Alive In Lift

**Prince** · 12-19-2011, 11:30 AM

Man Charged After Woman Burned Alive In Lift

A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder and arson after a woman was burned to death in a lift in her New York apartment building.

The suspect allegedly sprayed Deloris Gillespie, 73, with a flammable liquid and was set alight when her lift stopped on the fifth floor, police said.

The attack, which was caught on CCTV, is believed to have stemmed from a dispute over money, police added.

The attacker was seen entering the lift dressed as a pest controller, wearing gloves, with a protective mask on his head and a container on his back in Brooklyn, New York.

He then went to the fifth floor and lay in wait for his victim, who was returning home from shopping.

The attacker is reported to have first glued shut the locks on the woman's apartment and then doused the lift door with accelerant.

As she opened it, the man sprayed her in the face, then covered her from head to toe in flammable liquid.

Ms Gillespie crouched down and threw her hands up to her face, as shopping bags dangled from her arms.

Having cornered the woman in the lift, he then ignited a Molotov cocktail - a wine bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck.

The video went white as the woman was set on fire using the bottle's wick.

The man then threw the bottle inside the lift, after crouching behind the door "as if he was anticipating an explosion", according to one policeman.

Two surveillance cameras were filming the attack as he again sprayed Ms Gillespie's burning body with the ignitable liquid before fleeing down the stairs in the Prospect Heights area.

"I've never seen anything like this, and I've been doing this a long time," a detective was quoted as saying in the New York Daily News.

Ben Olson, 37, who lives on the sixth floor, said: "It's horrific. I can't believe it's true."

**Ezskanken** · 12-19-2011, 11:35 AM

WOW! That's sickening, I hope they catch this creep!

**BIGELI** · 12-19-2011, 11:48 AM

First paragraph says they have a man in custody!

BIGELI

**min0 lee** · 12-19-2011, 12:14 PM

They caught the lowlife, NYC has been getting worse since Mayor Guliani left.
A lot of people didn't care for him but he was real tough on crime....funny but a lot of people left to Florida to avoid his harsh treatment on thugs, they mostly moved to Orlando.

**min0 lee** · 12-19-2011, 12:17 PM

The sicko accused of torching a Brooklyn woman was ordered held without bail on Monday — as the victim’s family said they don’t want prosecutors to cut any deals.

Sporting a white jumpsuit and an angry-looking burn on his left cheek, Jerome Isaac, 47, didn’t say a word as prosecutors spoke of the horror of Delores Gillespie’s death.

“I know this is the defendant’s first offense, but the depravity of this one single act is beyond my description,” Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Taub said.

“The evidence of this particularly heinous and brutal murder is beyond question.”

Isaac, a handyman who did some work for Gillespie, was caught on video spraying her with gasoline in an elevator, setting her ablaze and tossing in a firebomb on Saturday.

He was reeking of gas when he surrendered to cops, admitted setting a fire and complained that Gillespie, 73, owed him money for maintenance work on her Underhill Ave. apartment.

“I see a hard time for any court to find any mitigation,” Taub said.

Isaac’s lawyer, Howard Tanner, did not make an application for bail or request a psychiatric evaluation.

He asked that his client be held in protective custody.

Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Brooklyn), who attended the arraignment, said she gave prosecutors a message from Gillespie’s children: No plea bargains.

They want Isaac to serve the absolute maximum for killing their mom, who perished from horrific head-to-toe burns and smoke inhalation.

“This was a horrific, brutal and senseless crime,” James said. “And they loved their mother dearly.”

She said several of the children were headed to New York and hoped to find copies of letters their mother had written complaining Isaac was harassing her.

The councilwoman said Gillespie — who cut off Isaac for stealing from her Prospect Heights apartment — never got an order of protection against him because she didn’t know his full name.

James said she knew Gillespie from community work.

“She was an angel,” she said.

Read more: Jerome Isaac held without bail in Brooklyn elevator torching*of Delores Gillespie, prosecutor says evidence is

**GeorgeForemanRules** · 12-19-2011, 12:19 PM

The good news is in 7 years this guy will be let out of prison so they can make room for some guy who was caught with 1/2 of marijuana for personal use.

**min0 lee** · 12-19-2011, 12:32 PM

True Story!

**Prince** · 12-19-2011, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

The good news is in 7 years this guy will be let out of prison so they can make room for some guy who was caught with 1/2 of marijuana for personal use.

yup or a vial of Cyp.

**hypno** · 12-19-2011, 02:18 PM

Can anyone say "Not guilty by reason of insanity"? You just know thats what his atty will try.

**min0 lee** · 12-19-2011, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by hypno

Can anyone say "Not guilty by reason of insanity"? You just know thats what his atty will try.

How can these defense attorneys live with themselves?

**Jrluz14** · 12-19-2011, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

How can these defense attorneys live with themselves?

You know how some people say the butt can't get pregnant? They're wrong, that's where lawyers/attorneys come from.

**DOMS** · 12-19-2011, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

How can these defense attorneys live with themselves?

They become politicians.

**min0 lee** · 12-19-2011, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

They become politicians.

Ughhhhh...you're right.

**flexxthese** · 12-19-2011, 09:51 PM

I've seen a lot of things in my life, but the one I have the hardest time dealing with is a burnt body. The smell...it's just something you never ever forget.

**Little Wing** · 12-19-2011, 10:28 PM

i know this sounds ignorant but maybe she should have paid him. he's 47 and it's his first offense and something a person would have to have been really fucking pissed to do. wonder how much work the "victim" refused to pay him for.

**Vibrant** · 12-19-2011, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i know this sounds ignorant but maybe she should have paid him. he's 47 and it's his first offense and something a person would have to have been really fucking pissed to do. wonder how much work the "victim" refused to pay him for.

imo it doesnt matter how much she owed him, whether it was 1k, 1million, 1billion. he had to have been deeply disturbed to kill someone like that.

**brad1224** · 12-19-2011, 10:40 PM

F-ing animals!!!

who the hell does something like this!

**GearsMcGilf** · 12-19-2011, 11:55 PM

How do we know he wasn't looking at eviction and possibly homelessness if the old bitch didn't pay him. Moral of the story.... pay your fukkin bills.

**Little Wing** · 12-20-2011, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Vibrant

imo it doesnt matter how much she owed him, whether it was 1k, 1million, 1billion. he had to have been deeply disturbed to kill someone like that.

of course he shouldn't have done it but how many of us would love to do shit like this we just have all the right stop buttons? some people are pure fucking cunts and it would be sweet to see them taken down in heinous ways. i think it's why there are countless movies where people do get what they deserve. i think the situation must've been a lot more complicated than she owed him money. maybe not paying him was more humiliation than he could take or the straw that broke the camel's back. it's weird at that age it's a first offense. i don't have much sympathy for anyone trying to fuck over a man willing to work.

**GeorgeForemanRules** · 12-20-2011, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i know this sounds ignorant but maybe she should have paid him. he's 47 and it's his first offense and something a person would have to have been really fucking pissed to do. wonder how much work the "victim" refused to pay him for.

I read that she was a Jew, so he was not going to get his money no matter how you shake it.

**LAM** · 12-20-2011, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i know this sounds ignorant but maybe she should have paid him. he's 47 and it's his first offense and something a person would have to have been really fucking pissed to do. wonder how much work the "victim" refused to pay him for.

most people that kill it was there first time. NYC is expensive as hell and no doubt the guy was probably not doing well before the recession. to kill some that age like that was extremely cruel, he wanted her to suffer.

I remember before I left for bootcamp one of my buddies who was a roofer got stiffed by some hot shot lawyer in our hood. for whatever reason he didn't want to pay the tab on his new roof and cooper gutters. well our buddy did the landscaping and when he went away on vacation, a couple of us went and repossessed the gutters, shingles and the plywood...he should have paid as well...

**Little Wing** · 12-20-2011, 02:14 AM

73 has a bit of chance at being a touch senile too. maybe she imagined he stole from her? who knows. maybe he stole because she was dragging her ass paying. maybe he had no reason to be so mad but it just seems to a logical person he had to have been dealt a pretty severe injustice in his mind for him to have gone this nuts on her ass.

**Zaphod** · 12-20-2011, 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

How can these defense attorneys live with themselves?

As long as they get money they live rather well with themselves.

**DOMS** · 12-20-2011, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by LAM

I remember before I left for bootcamp one of my buddies who was a roofer got stiffed by some hot shot lawyer in our hood. for whatever reason he didn't want to pay the tab on his new roof and cooper gutters. well our buddy did the landscaping and when he went away on vacation, a couple of us went and repossessed the gutters, shingles and the plywood...he should have paid as well...

Nice.

**GearsMcGilf** · 12-20-2011, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by LAM

most people that kill it was there first time. NYC is expensive as hell and no doubt the guy was probably not doing well before the recession. to kill some that age like that was extremely cruel, he wanted her to suffer.

I remember before I left for bootcamp one of my buddies who was a roofer got stiffed by some hot shot lawyer in our hood. for whatever reason he didn't want to pay the tab on his new roof and cooper gutters. well our buddy did the landscaping and when he went away on vacation, a couple of us went and repossessed the gutters, shingles and the plywood...he should have paid as well...

You should've burnt him alive.

**Curt James** · 12-20-2011, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i know this sounds ignorant but maybe she should have paid him. he's 47 and it's his first offense and something a person would have to have been really fucking pissed to do. wonder how much work the "victim" refused to pay him for.

You take the jerk to small claims, though. You don't incinerate them.

And, what, did he douse himself, too? Looking f'd up in those pics.

**Curt James** · 12-20-2011, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

73 has a bit of chance at being a touch senile too. maybe she imagined he stole from her? who knows. maybe he stole because she was dragging her ass paying. maybe he had no reason to be so mad but it just seems to a logical person he had to have been dealt a pretty severe injustice in his mind for him to have gone this nuts on her ass.

In his mind maybe, but there's no logic connected to some actions.

Seem to recall some guy getting shot for looking at another person. Or for bumping into someone. And what about that "point em out, knock em out" game video that was posted some time ago. They just walked up and knocked out a random guy. No logic there.

This guy is psychotic, sure, but what do they do with mad dogs? No chew toy and a warm blanket, that's for sure.

Set the guy on fire and throw him in the same lift the woman perished in.

**Curt James** · 12-20-2011, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

he's 47 and it's his first offense

He saved up for a real whopper of a first offense.

And you're not really sticking up for this idiot, are you?

No matter what she owed him, this is an unacceptable course of action.

For money?

I want to see the amount "owed". Seriously. How much is the dollar value for burning someone alive?

Twelve bucks? Twelve hundred? Twelve thousand? Twelve million? What would it take for you to say, "Aw, screw this, where's my lighter fluid and those long matches I have?"

**Curt James** · 12-20-2011, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

You should've burnt him alive.

"I PAID THAT NEWSPAPER BOY MY MONEY, BUT I NEVER GET MY SUNDAY PAPER! SON OF A..."

**SFW** · 12-20-2011, 05:55 PM

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