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The Central Park Five as adults (These men when they came back from their prison sentence had a hard time adjusting back to normal life.)

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The Central Park Five as teens in courtroom

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Matias Reyes, the man who actually assaulted the central park jogger. ( thirteen years later the man confessed about the assault on the woman due to guilt of the park five serving time for something they didn't commit.)

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This article talks about things that where said by the park five during the incident that was not recorded on tape. talks about the 50 million dollars the park five sued the state of  New York for serving time they didn't commit.

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding a quick settlement of the lawsuit brought by the five men convicted of one of the most sickening crimes in the city's history: the attack on the Central Park jogger in 1989. The plaintiffs are demanding $50 million apiece -- for going to prison for a rape that they committed, as detailed in Chapter 13 of "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Destroying America." Abner Louima got $5.8 million for a shockingly brutal police assault on him, and he was just an innocent bystander.

The "Central Park Five," as PBS documentarian Ken Burns has dubbed them, aren't exactly Emmett Till (as Burns would have you believe). Even if they were innocent of the Central Park rape, which they aren't, the reason they were originally arrested was that they were rampaging through the park, assaulting people.

Even after they began denying the rape, the defendants continued to admit committing these other attacks. How'd you like to be one of the people badly beaten in the park that night watching your tax dollars go to pay your assailants millions of dollars?

All those convictions -- on the rape as well as the assaults -- have been vacated because an aging district attorney wanted a glowing obituary in The New York Times.

In 2002, the ancient Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, issued a report recommending that the convictions in the Central Park rape case be vacated. Justice Charles Tejada (Fordham Law 2009 Hispanic Heritage Award winner!) granted his request.

Liberals are opposed to rape in the abstract, but when it comes to actual rapists, they're all for them.

The D.A.'s report was based solely on the confession of Matias Reyes, career criminal, serial rapist and murderer. Reyes had absolutely nothing to lose by confessing to the rape -- the statute of limitations had run -- and much to gain by claiming he acted alone: He got a favorable prison transfer and the admiration of his fellow inmates for smearing the police.

While dumping on the police for screwing up the investigation, Morgenthau wouldn't let the cops interview Reyes themselves, even though his "confession" was the sole evidence that he raped and brutalized the jogger by himself.

Not only were the police prohibited from interviewing Reyes or giving him a polygraph, but Morgenthau ordered other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes. First the D.A. slimed the cops, then he ran interference for a rapist-murderer.

New York journalist Nicholas Stix reports that one inmate says Reyes told him he heard the jogger's screams and raped her only after the "Central Park Five" had finished with her.

The media proclaim those five rapists innocent based on their own over-excited reports that the DNA found on the jogger matched that of Reyes, but none of the others!

Yeah, we knew that. It was always known that semen on the jogger did not match any of the defendants. ("DNA Expert: No Semen Links to Defendants," The Associated Press, July 14, 1990.)

Hallmark should have a greeting card: "Guess whose semen wasn't found anywhere on the rape victim?" (Open card) "I'm so proud of you, son!"

Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer expressly reminded the jurors of the missing rapist in her summation to the jury: "Others who were not caught raped her and got away." Now we know who "got away."

DNA wasn't the evidence that convicted the "Central Park Five." It's hard to believe now, but in 1989 DNA was rarely used to convict anyone, so it wouldn't have been carefully collected by police investigators. DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding.

This case was solved with old-fashioned police work. After the first 911 calls came in, the police arrested some of the thugs in the park that very night. Then they arrested those named as part of the wolf pack by the first detainees.

For example, one boy picked up in the park told the cops -- without prompting -- "I know who did the murder. I know who did the murder. I know where he lives and I'll tell you his name." He named one of the five convicted of the attack on the jogger, Antron McCray. (The night of the attack, no one expected the jogger to live.)

Of more than three dozen hoodlums brought in for questioning, only 10 were charged with any crimes, and only five of those were charged with raping the jogger. All those charged with the jogger's rape gave detailed, corroborated, videotaped confessions, after full Miranda warnings, four of the five in the presence of an adult relative.

Recall that none of them -- including the police -- could have known whether the jogger would emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers. (She emerged, but blocked all memory of the attack.) All five confessed to assisting the attack on the jogger, but none to raping her themselves. That's enough for a rape conviction.

In Antron McCray's 34-minute videotaped statement, for example, he said:

"Everybody started hitting her and stuff. She was on the ground, everybody stompin' and everything. ... I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm and we grabbed her legs and stuff. Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her. ... I just like, my penis wasn't in her. I didn't do nothing to her ... I was just doing it so everybody ... Everybody would just like, would know I did it."

There was other incriminating evidence, all of which is currently being ignored by the media and PBS documentarians.

Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with defendant Kharey Wise, testified -- reluctantly -- that she talked to Wise by phone when he was at Rikers Island and that he told her that he didn't rape the jogger, he "only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f--ked her." She originally volunteered this information to the police thinking it would be helpful to Wise.

(The District Attorney's report that recommended vacating the sentences described the above exchange as: "Wise replied that he had not had sex with her, but had only held and fondled the victim's leg.")

Other witnesses provided various corroborating details to the police, such as one who said Kevin Richardson told him, "We just raped somebody," and another who heard Raymond Santana and another boy laughing about how "we made a woman bleed."

Two witnesses independently told police they saw several of the defendants walking from the 102nd Street traverse area where the jogger was raped. One said he realized the significance of that fact only when he saw where the memorial to the jogger in the park was.

When Raymond Santana was being driven to the precinct the night of the wilding, he blurted out: "I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman's tits." Wait! Who said anything about rape? The cops had not asked him about any rape.

Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have done.

The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack -- given on videotape, in the presence of his father -- and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Oh, also -- the crotch of the underwear from the night of the attack was stained with semen, grass, dirt and debris.

Contrary to media reports, there was hair, blood or semen on all five of the defendants.

In the opposite of a rush to judgment, two multi-ethnic juries deliberated for 10 days and 11 days, respectively, before convicting the five defendants of rape or sexual abuse -- as well as the other assaults that night, mysteriously vacated by Justice Tejada -- and acquitting all but one on the most serious charge, attempted murder.

But now de Blasio wants to hold down our legs while the "Central Park Five" rape us, again.
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What the Media Won't Tell You About the 'Central Park Five'

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding a quick settlement of the lawsuit brought by the five men convicted of one of the most sickening crimes in the city's history: the attack on the Central Park jogger in 1989.

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This article explains the life of the serial rapist and how he became who he is. this article talks about the trouble childhood he had, from being sold for $400 and being sexually abused as a child by family members. This relates to the documentary because its explains the life he had and explains on why he do what he does.

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''He is a complete lunatic,'' said Michael Sheehan, a former homicide investigator whose work helped prosecute Mr. Reyes for the murder of Lourdes Gonzalez.

Ms. Gonzalez, 24, was raped and stabbed nine times in her basement apartment on East 97th Street in June 1989. Her three small children were listening through a bedroom door as their pregnant mother was sexually assaulted, then murdered.

Two other women who survived their encounter with Mr. Reyes told the police that he had given them a stark choice at knife point -- your eyes or your life. They took the first choice, and then he stabbed them around the eyes, although the wounds proved superficial, according to investigators.

In the attack on the jogger, her injuries were so severe that several detectives who worked on the case continue to believe it could not have been the work of just one man.

Mr. Reyes, now 31, was finally captured in August 1989, four months after attacking the jogger. By his own account now, he had committed one murder, five rapes, two attempted rapes and an untallied number of muggings. He was caught by two men in the lobby of a building on East 91st Street after a woman who had just been raped in her apartment dashed down the stairs in a towel.

''Even as a child growing up in the school system, he exhibited violent behavior,'' said Richard Siracusa, the lawyer who represented Mr. Reyes in the murder case. In court in 1991, just before being sentenced to 33 years to life, Mr. Reyes knocked Mr. Siracusa to the ground and beat him until he was pulled away by court officers. He had attacked his original lawyer in the case, John Iannuzzi, during a pretrial hearing.

Yet, Mr. Siracusa said, Mr. Reyes carried himself in a way that provided few outward clues to his inner turmoil.

''To the average person, he would seem perfectly normal, but he was far from normal,'' he said.

Mr. Reyes was not feared in the East Harlem neighborhood where he lived, first with his mother in the Washington Houses, and later on his own, in the van, according to investigators. (Accounts differ, but Mr. Reyes has said that he and his mother split up after a violent argument when he was 15 or 16.)

Associates of Mr. Reyes called him Checo and knew he dabbled in petty crime, according to the district attorney's office report, stealing money and jewelry from people in Central Park. But a neighbor in East Harlem said Jesus Ramos, a man who worked with Mr. Reyes in the deli, trusted him enough to bring him home at night sometimes. When the Ramos family was not home, sometimes Mr. Reyes would knock on the door of the neighbor, Luz Pulleza, across the fifth-floor hallway of the Third Avenue building.

''He would say, 'I have no place to stay. Can you leave me here for a couple of hours,''' Ms. Pulleza, 74, recalled. She said he never caused her any problems.

Prosecutors in their report described Mr. Reyes as a loner, rarely seen with anyone but the people who frequented the deli where he worked, on Third Avenue near 102nd Street, across from the 23rd Precinct station house. Officers from the precinct knew him as Tony and saw him routinely when they came in for coffee or cigarettes, police officials said.

Indeed, after his murder of Ms. Gonzalez, when detectives still had no idea who had committed the crime, one of the officers involved in the case brought Ms. Gonzalez's children by the deli for a treat, a police official said. Mr. Reyes was there, the official said, but the children did not recognize him because they had never seen his face.

Investigators said Mr. Reyes tried to use charm as a weapon, engaging women in conversation to gain their trust before attacking. Sometimes he told them he was the building superintendent's son to gain access to their apartment, they said. Twice he took showers with his victims, in an apparent effort to remake the attack in his own mind into some kind of a date, they said. Detective Sheehan recalled that in discussing the attack on Ms. Gonzalez, Mr. Reyes always referred to his assault as ''making love.''

After his July 19, 1989, rape of a 20-year-old woman in a Madison Avenue apartment, Mr. Reyes called 911 from a pay phone on the street to summon help for her, according to the district attorney's report. Then, investigators said, he continued to her bank to remove money from her account using her A.T.M. card.

That 911 call came back to haunt him in August of that year, after he was captured as he tried to flee his last assault, investigators said. When detectives played the tape of the call for him, and Mr. Reyes heard his voice, he began to acknowledge several other rapes, the investigators said. Later, under questioning by Detective Sheehan, he confessed to the murder of Ms. Gonzalez, Detective Sheehan said.

Detective Sheehan, who also worked on the Central Park jogger case that produced the convictions of the five Harlem youths, is among those who discredit Mr. Reyes's account that he acted alone in attacking the Central Park jogger. These detectives say he is a manipulator of stories and point to disparate accounts he has given of events in his life.

For example, Mr. Reyes told N. G. Berrill, the psychologist who interviewed him as part of his defense in 1991, that he had been sexually abused by strangers he met at a river in Puerto Rico, where he lived for several stretches of his life. But he recently told investigators that the abuse came at the hands of family members in a bathroom.

''He was a very bad historian,'' said Dr. Berrill, who interviewed him three times. ''Everything was very vague.''

According to Dr. Berrill's report of those interviews, Mr. Reyes told him he was born in Fajardo, P.R., in a home marred by spousal abuse. He said his grandmother told him his mother had sold him to his father for $400 when she moved to New York when he was a child. He said he snorted several bags of cocaine a day and had never learned to read. Tests performed as part of Dr. Berrill's assessment measured his I.Q. at 76.

At 15, Mr. Reyes broke his neck, according to the report, when he dove into a river to impress girls. He said he was then forced to wear a brace that restricted his movement by attaching screws to his head. He pointed out the screw scars to prosecutors during one of his recent interviews, an investigator said.

''Given his own childhood, the primitive way he was raised, the dislocation from significant others, you would expect him to be an impaired guy,'' Dr. Berrill said in an interview.

In his report, Dr. Berrill concluded that Mr. Reyes indulged in fantasies in which he envisioned himself a superhero or the king of his social circle. The report says, ''Mr. Reyes has been considered a rather impulsive, angry, volatile individual since he was a young boy.'' But Mr. Reyes rejected portrayals of himself as violent. ''I always say no to violence,'' he is quoted as saying in the report.

Recently, in an interview with an investigator for lawyers representing the five Harlem teenagers convicted in the jogger attack, Mr. Reyes tried to explain why he had come forward now, after 13 years, to acknowledge his role in the crime.

''I'm dying to be able to send my apologies to every person I hurt,'' he said.

But his prison record gives evidence of continuing trouble. Since 1991, Mr. Reyes has been cited at least 19 times for infractions ranging from fighting to arson, according to the State Department of Correctional Services.
Correction: December 12, 2002, Thursday Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the life of Matias Reyes, who claims to be the only attacker in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, gave an incorrect title in some references for Michael Sheehan, a former homicide investigator whose work helped to prosecute Mr. Reyes for a murder. He is retired from the Police Department and works as a television news reporter; he is no longer a detective.

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Suspect in Rape Absorbed Pain And Inflicted It

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Detectives who interviewed him and neighbors who knew him say that Matias Reyes, new suspect in 1989 Central Park jogger rape case, reportedly was sold by his mother to his father when he was two for $400, was sexually abused and thrown into river by two older boys when he was seven and was living alone on streets of New York by age 17 (M)

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This is the full news article Donald J. Trump spent money on to explain why they government should bring back the Death Penalty. This article was during the prosecution of the five African and Latino boys. this was a very drastic action and stressful.

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Donald J. Trump, The man who wanted to execute the central park five who still to this day thinks they are still the culprits and not the victim. haven't even apologize for wrongly and publically de-humanizing these boys in the media

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This picture represents how lazy the Central Park investigators where in capturing the true suspect.

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title of a newspaper article during the time. this article represents the huge controversy of the whole incident and how the boys where posted everywhere.

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Strikes on the streets during 1989 saying that the boys should be executed. ALL because of trumps full page ad. This shows all the negativity the boys were getting.

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This article summarizes the event in written form about the documentary The Central Park Five.

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About the Central Park Five

Conviction and Exoneration | Where Are They Now? | Learn More and Get Involved
Sketch by Christine Cornell
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE film explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of the horrific 1989 crime. The brutal beating and rape of a white woman in New York City's Central Park provoked public outrage and sensational headlines during the prosecution and conviction of the five defendants. Less known is the story of the eventual exoneration of the men, who served full prison sentences.

Conviction and Exoneration

Daily News headline, April 22, 1989

Drawing of Central Park Five trial. Sketch by Christine Cornell

In the early hours of April 20, 1989, the body of a woman barely clinging to life was discovered in Central Park. Assaulted and left for dead, the 28-year-old jogger, Trisha Meili, would survive grave injuries and a coma with no memory of the events. Within days of the attack, McCray, 15; Richardson, 14; Salaam, 15; Santana, 14; and Wise, 16, implicated themselves in Meili's rape and beating after hours of psychological pressure and aggressive interrogation at the hands of seasoned homicide detectives.

The police announced to a press hungry for sensational crime stories that the young men had been part of a gang of teenagers who were out "wilding," assaulting joggers and bicyclists in Central Park that evening. The ensuing media frenzy was met with a public outcry for justice. The young men were tried as adults under New York laws of the day - and convicted, despite inconsistent and inaccurate confessions, DNA evidence that excluded them, and no eyewitness accounts that connected them to the victim.
Watch: New York Wilding
On December 19, 2002, Justice Charles J. Tejada of the Supreme Court of the State of New York granted a motion to vacate the thirteen-year-old convections in the infamous case. He did so based on new evidence: a shocking confession from a serial rapist, Matias Reyes, and a positive DNA match to back it up. A year later, the men filed civil lawsuits against the City of New York, and the police officers and prosecutors who had worked toward their conviction. That lawsuit remains unresolved.

Learn More and Get Involved

The Innocence Project ( www.innocenceproject.org/fix/) is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

The CWCY ( http://www.cwcy.org) is a joint project of the Center of Wrongful Convictions and Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law's Bluhm Legal Clinic. It is the only innocence project in the country that focuses exclusively on individuals who were convicted or accused of crimes when they were adolescents or younger.

The Innocence Network ( www.innocencenetwork.org/) is an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions.

This publication of the American Civil Liberties Union ( www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf) addresses what rights you have when you are stopped, questioned, arrested, or searched by law enforcement officers.

Download THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE discussion guide and share your thoughts on our discussion page.

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THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE: A Film By Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns

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THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989.

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This picture represents that there are so many police out there that couldn't put the pieces together to find the true culprit